COMPOSITiE. 199 



Group P.— PSEUDO-ACCIPITRINA (Psetido- 



pulmonaria. Pries). 



Plant slightly glaucous, sub-glabrous, or sparingly hairy, with 

 simple non-glandular hairs. lladical leaves in an imperfect 

 rosette, rarely surviving the winter, and almost always decayed 

 by the time of flowering ; sometimes absent. Stem - leaves 

 numerous ; the lower ones sub-petiolate, the upper sessile, not 

 amplexicaul. Phyllaries irregularly imbricated, sub-glabrous or 

 sparingly clothed with short hairs, more rarely with stellate 

 down, nearly or entirely destitute of black gland-tipped hairs. 

 Achenes rather large, brownish-black. 



SPECIES XXVIII.— H lERACIUM GOTHICUM. Fries. 



Plate DCCCLI. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. JIDXXVII. Fig. 2. 

 Back. Mon. Hier. p. 64. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 20G. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. 

 ed. viii. p. 228. 



Stem leafy, corymbosely or paniculato-corymbosely branched 

 at the apex, sub-glabrous or sparingly clothed with long simple 

 hairs ; the upper part and peduncles with a little stellate down 

 and a few black gland-tipped hairs. Piadical leaves usually de- 

 cayed before flowering ; stem-leaves several or numerous, variable 

 in breadtb, some of them occasionally aggregated near the base, 

 forming a pseudo-rosette ; lower ones elliptical or oval, attenuated 

 at the base and petiolate ; intermediate ones strapshaped-ellip- 

 tical or oval-elliptical, narrowed towards the base and apex ; 

 upper ones sessile, not amplexicaul, lanceolate acute ; all more or 

 less coarsely serrate towards the middle, with the teeth distant 

 and often elongated, entire at the apex, sub-glabrous above, fre- 

 quently sparingly hairy beneath, or only ciliated at the margins 

 and on the midrib beneath. Anthodes rather large, usually 

 few (3 to B) in a corymb, or numerous in a corymbose- 

 topped panicle, on straight stout elongated ascending or erect 

 peduncles. Pericline hemispherical at the base, ovate-conical 

 after flowering ; phyllaries numerous, obtuse, the inner ones 

 narrower, dark olive-green, nearly glabrous, or with a few short 

 gland-tipped or simple whitish hairs on the middle line, sometimes 

 with a little stellate down towards the base. Plorets glabrous, 

 not ciliated at the apex. Styles livid-yellow or yellow. 



