216 45. C0MP0SIM3. 



1 — 3 feet high. Rt.-l. persistent, st.-l. few; or rt.-l. few and 

 evanescent, st.-l. many, . The typical plant has panieled heads 

 cylindrical when young, glaucesoent 1. purplish beneath, per- 

 sistent rt.-l., few sti-L, greenish inv.- — H. maculatum (Sm.) 

 £. B. 2121 is a form with evanescent rt.-l., many and broad st.- 

 1., and imperfectly corymbose heads/ Many other forms are 

 naaned, but they defy definition. — ^ Woods, banks, walls. P. 

 VII.— IX. : E. S. I. 



**•* Pseudo-accipifrirus. Inv. subglabrou^. Rt.-1. often 

 forming a winter rosettei but rarely present with the flowers. 



25. I£. gothUmm (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 

 tate at the middle, rt.-l. shortly stalked usually evanescent, lower 

 st.-l. often stalked and aggregate, upper st.-l. sessile, heads few 

 subcorymbose, ped. rigid erect slightly floccose, inv. roundly 

 ventricose subglabrous or slightly hairy, ^%fl. dark green broad 

 blunt incumbent, style yellow with fuscous, hairs. — Veir 

 variable, 1 — 4 ft. high, rigid, rarely much branched. Et.-l. 

 very, rarely persistent.. L. all simikr, iirna, narrowed at both 

 ends,. sometimes very narrow. Young heads cylindrical. Inv. 

 with few , brownish hairs and very slightly floccose or sub- 

 glabrous. — /3. latifolium (Backh.),; st. branched, 1. broadly lan- 

 ceolate, style nearly wholly yellow. H. norvegiciim (Fr. ?). — 

 Heathy or grassy subalpine places. P. VII. — IX. E. S. I. 



iii. ACCIPITRINA. Forming closed buds at the base of 

 ■ the St. in autumn. No true rt. -leaves with the flowers. 

 St. leafy. PhyU. in many rows. Hairs of pappus rigid, 

 tmequal. 



* , Pseticlo-pidmonareeB. , Earely forming smaU , basal rosettes 

 which do not outlive the vsdnter. 



26. H. tridentatum (Fr.); st. leafy, 1. lanceolate few-toothed 

 at the middle falsely 3-veined, rt.-l. narrowed into winged pe- 

 titiles,„st.-l. sessile, bracts nearly linear, heads corymbose, round- 

 based inv. and long floccose slender ped. with short hairs, inv. 

 of fr. truncate below constricted in : the middle, phyll. pale-edged 

 subglabrous rather blunt, styles livid. — Rt-l. rarely persistent. 

 St. 2 — 5 ft. high, often much branchsd above, with leaves de- 

 creasing successively to small bracts, hairy below. Petioles 

 and base of sessile L viUose. Teeth of 1. usually large. Inv. of 

 fr, often an acute cone, sometimes floccose. Pappus reddish. — 

 Banks,, P. VIII. IX. E. S. 



** Aphyll(ypod(!R. Never forming rosettes. Root-leaves fading 

 early. 



t Floivera mimrtely pilose or subglabrous at tlie tips. 



27. H. prenanthoides (Vill.) ; st. leafy, I. all clasping net- 



