coMrosiT.E. 1G7 



Tlaclical leaves few, l)ut there are generally 2 or 3 crowded at 

 the base of the stem, from 2 to 6 inches long, suh-petiohite ; tlioso 

 above the base of the stem quite sessile. Upper half of the stem 

 leafless, or with 1 or 2 minute bracts. Stem 9 to 18 inches higli, 

 sparingly clotlied -nith stellate down, black gland-tip])od hairs, and 

 long black-based hairs ; peduncles and phyllarics thickly clothed 

 with these hairs. Authodcs 3 to ] 2 in a corymb, at first very com- 

 pact, afterwards lax. Florets brownish-red. Achenes ^q inch long, 

 purplish-black. 



Orange Sawkweed. 



French, Eperviere (TOrange. German, Pomeranzenhlumiges nahichlshraut. 



Section II. — PULMONAUEA (including Auuella, Fries). 



Rootstock not stoloniferous. Leaves chiefly in a radical rosette, 

 and usually persistent until the time of flowering. Stem gene- 

 rally with few leaves. Phyllaries irregularly imbricated. Achenes 

 large, or rather large, not crenulated at the apex. Pappus of 

 unequal rigid brittle hairs. 



Group A.— ALPINA. 



Plant green, more rarely slightly glaucous, not viscid-glandular. 

 Hairs simple ; neck of the rootstock not densely woolly. Radical 

 leaves in a rosette, persistent until after flowering. Stem scape- 

 like, with leaves usually few and often bract-like. Phyllaries 

 dark-olive or nearly black, clothed with shaggy wool or silky 

 hairs, often intermixed with gland-tipped hairs. Ligules more or 

 less ciliated at the apes, rarely sub-glabrous. Achenes large, 

 brownish-black. 



SPECIES III— HIE R AC I UM C ALENDULIPLORUM. 



PMck. 

 Plate DOUCXXIV. 



Bach. Mon. Hier. p. 23. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 201. 

 H. eximium, var. ft, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viiL p. 219. 



Stem simple, or slightly branched at the apex, sparingly clothed 

 with stellate down and simple black-based hairs, densely so in 

 the upper part, where there are also short black gland-tipped 

 hairs. Radical leaves oval or broadly elliptical-obovate, somewhat 

 abruptly narrowed into broad petioles, rather obtuse, coarsely and 

 remotely dentate ; the primordial ones suborbicular ; stem-leaves 

 few, often only 1 above the middle of the stem, small, sessile, 



