134 ENGLISU BOTxlNY. 



Sub-Genus III.— OPORINIA. Don. 



All the aclienes with a pappus of elongated hairs. Hairs of 

 the pappus in 1 row, all slightly dUated at the base, and plumose. 

 Rootstock premorse. Anthodes erect in bud. Hairs of the leaves 

 simple. 



SPECIES UL—LEONTODON AUTUMNALIS. Linn. 



PiA-rss DCCXCIV. DCCXCV. 



£illot, ¥1 GalL et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1510. 



Jleich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. VoL XIX. Tab. MCCCLVI. Figs. 2, 3. 



Apargia autumnalis, Willd. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 194. Hook. & Am. Brit 



Fl. ed. viil p. 210. 

 Oporinia autumnalis, Don. BromfieW,, Fl. Vect. p. 281. 



Rootstock premorse, simple or branched and many-headed. 

 Leaves strapshaped-oblanceolate or oblong-strapshaped or oblan- 

 ceolate-linear, varying from deeply pinnatifid to repand-dentate, 

 glabrous or hairy with simple hairs. Scapes branched, rarely 

 1-flowered, thickened and fistulous at the apex, with numerous 

 small scale-like bracts beneath the anthodes. Anthodes erect 

 before expansion. Phyllaries glabrous or woolly. Achenes all 

 cylindrical, not beaked, longitudinally ribbed, with ribs faintly 

 squamose-muricated. Pappus dirty-white, with all the hairs plu- 

 mose, or rarely a few simple ones below the others. 



Var. a, genuinus. 

 Plate DCCXCIV. 

 Hedypnois autumnalis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 830. 



Pericline and peduncles glabrous or sub-glabrous. 

 Var. 3, p7'atensis. Koch. 



Plate DCCXCV. 



Hedypnois Taraxici, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1109, non Hieracium Tarasici, Lhin. Sp. PI. 

 p. 1125. 



Pericline, peduncles and upper part of the scape thickly clothed 

 with wooUy hairs. 



In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Very common, aud 

 universally distributed. Var. 3 in mountainous districts. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



