210 



XLVi. composite: cichorace^.. 



[_Picns. 



volucre 5 cordate crenate, stem erect hispid. PIcris Z. : E B 



Borders of fields especially in a clayey soil. In Scotland near 

 Berwick-upon-Tweed, very rare. About Dublin. 2^ 6—10 

 Stem 2—3 ft high stout, hispid, with numerous rigid hai"rs, sprln-ii^ 

 from tubercles. Lower leaves lanceolate; upper ones cordate \y^ 

 plexicaul. Flowers small, vellow. i-^ruaie, am- 



3. PicRis Linn. Picris. 



Achenes transversely striate, with scarcely any beak. Pan 

 pus with the inner hairs feathery. RecepL naked. Invol of 

 many compact, upright, equal scales, with several external small 

 linear ones,— ]^ame: iriKpoQ, hitter, as are many of this tribe. 



1. P. Meracioides L. (Hawk-weed P.); stem rouo*h with 

 hooked bristles, leaves lanceolate rough toothed, flowers^corym- 

 bose, peduncles with many bracteas, outer scales of the invc' 

 lucre linear-oblong lax bristly on the keel. £!. B. t. 196 



Road-sides and borders of fields, frequent, 

 found in Scotland. Stems 2- 



3 ft. high. 



If. 6— 10. — Not 



the marginal and central florets alike. 



Flowers yellow. Pappus of 



4. Apargia Schreh. Hawkbit. 



Achenes beaked. Pappus feathery. Recept. naked, 

 unequally imbricated, with hirsute black scales. — Xame : 



InvoL 



aitapyia^ some uncertain weed known to the Greeks which 

 sprung up aTTo.from^ apyia, the idleness of the cultivator. 



* Pappus zvith an outer row of bristles, 



1. A. kispida Willd. (Rough H.); scape single-flowered 

 thickened upwards slightly hispid naked or with 1—2 minute 

 scales, leaves runcinate hispid with forked hairs, flowers droop- 

 ing m bud, involucre hairy. Hedypnois "' ' ~ " 

 Leontodon Z. 



Huds 



Meadows, pastures, and gravelly heaths, frequent. 3/.. 6—9. 



** Pappus simple. ( Oporinia Z>on.) 



2. A. autumndlis Willd. {autumnal H.) ; scape scaly upwards, 

 leaves lanceolate toothed or pinnatifid nearly glabrous, pedun- 

 cles swollen beneath the involucres.— «. leaves°nearly glabrous, 

 scape branched, involucres somewhat downy. Hedypnois E. B, 

 t. 830. Oporinia Don.~f3. leaves glabrous, scape almost simple! 

 involucre clothed with blackish hairs. Hedypnois Taraxaci 



•It- i \ }^^' ~ ^- ^^^^^^ ^^^^y^ ^^'^Pes branched, involucres 

 with dark hairs. 



Meadows and pastures, frequent. )3. on mountains. 7. Jn High- 

 land glens. If. 8.— Involucre cylindrical, and tapering gradually 



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