SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA iEQUALIS. 441 



In meadows, paftures, and upon thatch'd and turfed 

 cottages. O. VII-IX. 



The ftalk varies from one to three feet high, firm, 

 and roundifti at the bafe, but ftriated or furrow'd 

 upwards : the leaves are generally fmooth, but 

 are fometimes rough, with bifid hairs : the radi- 

 cal leaves are pinnatifid, the fegments acute, 

 often revers'd, their i'egments at the bafe the 

 longed-; thofe on the branches entire, linear, 

 pointed at the bafe, and the edges refiex'd : the 

 branches arlfe from the bofoms of the leaves : 

 the flowers are yellow, and grow in loofe clufters 

 at the top of the branches : the fcales of the 

 principal calyx are 12 or 13, ered, furrow'd, and 

 Scattered with glutinous hairs : the fcales of the 

 inferior fupplementary calyx are only about five : 

 the ftyles are fufcous and are protruded without 

 the anther<e : the down is plumofe, and in this 

 fpecics, contrary to one of the characters of the 

 genus, is feflile. 



It is a very variable plant. 



Sometimes the leaves are only dented on the edges, 

 not jagged, as reprefented in Fetiver's figure, /. 

 12./. 6. 



Sometimes it is dwarfifli, and the ilalk has no 

 leaves, but only narrow ///)«/i^. Pet, herh /. 12. 

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HYOSERIS. Gen. pi 916. 



Kecept. nudum. CaL fubaequalis. Pappus pilofus 



vel obfoletus. 



HYOSERIS 



