SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-^QU. Apargia. 351 



rupt, 5-toothed Jiorets. Filam. capillary, very short. 

 Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ, oblong. Style thread- 

 shaped, prominent. Stigm. 2, recurved. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the converging, finally spreading, calyx. Seed 

 oblong, striated. Down sessile, feathery, rather chaffy at 

 the base ; often scaly or unequal in the marginal seeds ; 

 occasionally somewhat stalked in the central ones, fre- 

 quently accompanied by shorter hairs or plumes. Recept. 

 dotted, naked, or very slightly hairy. 

 Milky herbs, generally stemless, with single-flowered ra- 

 dical stalks. Root almost without exception perennial. 

 Leaves variously toothed or sinuated, mosdy hairy. FL 

 of a full yellow, with a hairy or downy cali/x. 



1. A. hispida. Rough Hawkbit. 



Stalks naked, single-flowered. Leaves runcinate, rough. 

 Florets hairy at their orifice ; glandular at the tip. Seeds 

 scarcely beaked, all with feathery down. 



A. hispida. Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. 1552. Comp.ed.4. 120. Cycl.nA]. 



Hook. Scot. 227. 

 Hedypnois hispida. FL Br. 823. EngL Bot.v.S.t. 554. Relh.307. 

 Leontodon hispidum. Linn. Sp. PL] 124. Curt. Land. fasc.5.f. 56. 



FL Dan. t. 8fi2. 

 Picris n. 25. HalL Hist. v.l.W. 



Dens leonis hirsutus leptocaulos, Hieracium dictus. Raii Syn. 1 7 1 . 

 Hieracium caule aphyllo hiisutum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1037./. 1038. 

 H. dentis leonis folio hirsutum. Ger. Em. 303./. 

 H. foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbosi. Lob. Ic. 238./. 

 Common Rough Dandelion. Petiv. H. Brit. 1. 1 1 ./. 9. 



In pastures^ especially on chalk or limestone, plentifully. 



Perennial. July. 



Root tapering, long and slender, e.xternally blackish. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, with reversed, nearly equal and regular, teeth ; 

 their base tapering and more entire. They are clothed on botli 

 sides with prominent hairs, generally forked, rarely simple or 

 three-cleft. Stalks erect, taller than the leaves, simple, round, 

 hollow, rougli with similar hairs, without bracteas. Fl. drooping 

 in the bud, erect when e.xpanded, bright yellow, smaller than 

 the Common Dandelion. Cal. ovate, hairy. Florets clothed with 

 long, yellow, upright hairs, at the top of the tube externally, and 

 bearing, at the back of each of their 5 teeth, a small triangular 

 tuft of brown glands, first noticed by the late Mr. Sowerby. 

 Seeds uniform, slender, .slightly beaked. Doiivj sessile, of nu- 

 merous, feathery rays unequal in Icngtii. A report of tlie seed- 

 down being stalked, arising from a mistaken reference of Haller 

 to Berkhey's Flores Compositi, and propagated bv Reichard and 



