Fierotheca.'] lxxviii. coMPOSiTiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 399 



winged on the inner face ; pappus short, haii's Tery slender, simple, ■white, suh- 

 connate, deciduous or persistent. — Disteib. Species 4 or 5, Mediterranean and 

 W. Asiatic. 



1. P. Falconerl, Sodk.f. ; hispid or glandular ahove or glahrate, radical 

 leaves subsessile ohovate or elongate-spathulate sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, 

 flowering stems leafless suhcorymbosely branched ahove, heads J in. long broadly 

 cylindrie hispid or glabrate, outer invol. bracts very small ovate, inner 8-10 

 linear acute midrib thickened in fruit, aohenes very slender straight all terete 

 narrowed above S-lOrribbed, outer scaberulous, inner smooth longer than the 

 very soft white pappus. P. bifida, Clarke Comp, Ind., 256, not of F. ^ M.. 



Western Himaiaya ; from Kashmir, alt. 3-9000 ft. to Kima-vnir, Falconer, &c. 

 — ^DiSTRiS. AfFghanistan. 



Annual. Badical leaves 2-8 in., very variable. Fhwering stem 6-18 in., slender 

 or stout, corymbosely or paniciilately branched above, with minute bracts at the forks 

 or ; branches spreading, usually 'with hispid gland-tipped hairs ; peduncles naked ; 

 recept. hairs very slender, flexuous. Achmes ^ in,, outer sometimes imperfect white 

 and flattened, perfect terete many-ribbed red-brown ; pappus -^ in., hairs all rather 

 persistent. — I advance this species with much hesitation, for though differing in the 

 achenes being all tei;ete and uniformly ribbed from P. bifida, I find so much variety in 

 the outer adienes of that plant that I suspect this may prove to be a form of it. 

 Clarke refers De CandoUe's Barkhavsia porrtfolia and Boyld to this, but besides the 

 achenes being in no sense beaked, B. porrifoUd is founded by Don on a plant of Wal- 

 lich's from Nipal (where P. Falconeri does not occur) which is quite glabrous and 

 glaucous ; and with regard to P. BoyUi the description is not sufScient to identify it ; 

 P. Falconeri does not occiu; in Eoyle's Herbarium. The genus should be merged in 

 Crepis. 



111. KXERACIUnX, Linn. 



Perennial, leafy, erect or scapigerous herbs, with simple and stellate hairs'. 

 Leaves entire or toothed, very rarely pinnatifld. Heads often with black glan- 

 dular hairs, solitary and -long-peduncled or narrowly panicled or corymbose, 

 homogamous, yellow, rarely orange or red ; fl. all ligulate. Involucre tubular- 

 campanulate or broad ; bracts narrow, herbaceous, inner subequal or not, outer 

 usually smaller, imchanged after flowering ; receptacle flat, naked or shortly 

 fimbrillate. Achenes oblong-cylindric, 10-16 ribbed, terete or angled, base shortly 

 contracted, top truncate ; pappus copious, hairs 1-2-seriate, simple, rigid, fragile,, 

 persistent, usually dirty white or brown. — Disteib. Species about 160, chiefly 

 western European, a few Asiatic, N, American, Andean, and S. African. 



The Indian Hieracia have been referred by Mr. Baker to European species, and I 

 have followed his identifications, but described them from the Indian examples. The 

 species seem as variable and difficult to define in the East as in the West, and there 

 are several forms from the Himalaya which do not appear referable to any of the 

 following, but are too imperfect for description. The genus wants careful study in 

 the Himalaya. 



1. K. vulgratum, Koch ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 871 ; hirsute or glabrate, 

 radical leaves persistent petioled narrowed at both ends coarsely toothed, lower' 

 cauline petioled upper sessile, heads many, peduncles straight glandular, invol, 

 cylindrie in bud floccose and with gland-tipped hairs, bracts equal alternate sub- 

 acute. BeicKb. la. Fl. Germ. xix. 1. 1526. H. sylvaticum, Lamk, H. murorum, 

 Clarhe Comp. Ind. 256. 



' Westbem- Himalaya; from Kashmir toGarwhal, alt. 6-10,000 ft. — Disteib. N. 

 Asia, Europe, Arctic America. 

 - Stolons 0. Leaves 3-5 in,, often spotted with black in Europe. Steml-i ft,, 



