22-J SYNGENESIA POLYGAIVIIA ^Q. Apargia. 



APA'RGIA. Hawkbit. 



A. hispida. Rough H. Stalks naked, single-flowered. 

 Leaves runcinate, sparingly toothed, rough. Florets 

 hairy at their orifice ; glandular at the tip. Seeds 

 scarcely beaked, all with feathery down. Hedypnois 

 hispida. E. B. 554<. Leontodon hispidum. C. 5. 

 56. Sb. 239. Hieracium dentis leonis folio hirsutum. 

 G. E. 303. 



Pastures, especially on chalk, or limestone. Sm. 

 Per. July. 



Root spindle-shaped, black. Fl. bright yellow, drooping in bud, 

 in flower erect. Seeds uniform. Ls. generally covered with 

 forked, stiff hairs. Stalks upright, hairs forked. Florets their 

 summits terminate in five teeth, at the back of each a triangular 

 cluster of brown glands. 



Fl. opens about four in the morning, shuts at three in the even- 

 ing generally. Linn. Fl. Siiec. 



A. hirta. Deficient H. Stalks naked, single-flowered. 

 Leaves toothed, rough. Calyx nearly smooth. Outer 

 row of seeds crowned with scales only. Hedypnois 

 hirta, E. B. 554. Leontodon hirtum. C. 6. 59. 

 Sb. 238. Thrincia hirta. H. Br. Fl. 



Gravelly lieaths, commons. Sm. 



Per. July. 



Root abrupt. Fl. smaller than in Apargia hispida, without its 

 yellow hairs at the orifice, and without the brown glands at the 

 back of the tip of the florets. Fl. droop before flowering. Cal. 

 nearly smooth. Fl. reddish beneath. 



A. autumndlis. .Autumnal H. Yellow Devil's Bit. 

 Common stalk branched ; partial ones scaly. Leaves 

 spear-shaped, toothed, or wing-cleft, nearly smooth, 

 leaf-stalks swollen beneath the flower, tapering down- 

 wards. Hedypnois autumnalis. E. B. 830. Leon- 

 todon autumnale. Sb. 238. Hieracium minus, sive 

 leporinum. G. E. 296. 



Meadoivs, pastures. 



Per. August. 



Fl. bright yellow, small, often redchsh outside, numerous. Cal. 

 and top of stalk slightly downy. Root abruptly bitten off, with 

 long, simple fibres from its sides. Flower-stalks scaly, hollow, 

 each containing a small tuft of very w^hite cotton. The root 

 becomes abrupt in the second or third year of the plant's growth. 



