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stem-1. few small lanceolate deeply toothed at the base sessile. 

 Heads solitary, terminal, on long simple stalks. Midrib of the 

 phyll. at length much thickened and hardened. Ribs of the fr. 

 rough. — Chalky places, rare. B. VI. VII. E. 



** Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely beaked. 



[3. C.pulchra (L.); outer phyll. ovate short adpressed, 1. downy 

 toothed, stem-1. arrowshaped clasping, panicle corymbose, fr. 

 about as long as the pappus obsoletely striated slightly attenuated 

 upwards. — E. B. 2325. — St. erect, downy. Lower 1. obovate 

 runcinately toothed, stem-1. small. Heads small, florets yellow, 

 involucre at length thickened. Outer row of fruits often appa- 

 rently without pappus. — " Hill of Turin near Forfar." Mr. G. 

 Don. A. VI.— IX.] 



4. C. virens (L.) ; outer phyll. adpressed linear inner ones gla- 

 brous within, 1. lanceolate remotely dentate runcinate or pinna- 

 tifld, uppermost I. linear-arrowshaped clasping with flat margins, 

 st. subcorymbose, fr. shorter than the pappus oblong slightly at- 

 tenuated upwards with smooth ribs. — C. tectorum Sm. {not Linn.). 

 E. B. nil.— St. 1—3 feet high. L. very variable. Florets 

 yellow. [C. tectorum (L.) has revolute margined upper 1., phyll. 

 downy within, fr. somewhat beaked with scabrous ribs.] — Com- 

 mon. A. VI.— IX. 



5. C. biennis (L.) ; outer phyll. oblong-linear lax inner downy 

 within, 1. runcinate-pinnatifid hispid, uppermost 1. lanceolate 

 clasping dentate-pinnatifld, st. subcorymbose, fr. oblong slightly 

 attenuated upwards with smooth ribs and about as long as the 

 pappus. — E. B. 149 ? (excluding the fruit.) — St. 1 — 3 feet high, 

 hispid, nearly leafless above, branched in a corymbose manner. 

 Heads large, florets yellow. Angles of fr, often rough. L. radi- 

 cal and extending half-way up the stem. — Chalky places, rare ? 

 B. VI. VII. E. 



6. C. sucdsoefolia (Tausch); phyll. lanceolate-attenuated outer 

 ones very short adpressed, I. entire nearly glabrous oblong obtuse 

 lower ones narrowed into a footstalk, upper I. sessile and some- 

 what clasping, st. corymbose, peduncles and involucres glandular- 

 hairy, fr. much striated slightly narrowed upwards as long as the 

 pappus which is shorter than the involucre. — Hieracium molle 

 Sm., E. B. 2210. — St. erect, with few leaves, simple below. 

 Heads few, florets yellow.— Woods in the north. P. VII. VIII. 



E. S. 



7. C. paludosa (Moench) ; phyll. lanceolate much attenuated 

 glandular-pilose outer ones short, I. ovate-oblong taper-pointed 

 runcinate-dentate narrowed into a footstalk glabrous, upper 1. 

 ovate-lanceolate cordate and clasping acute entire or dentate, st. 



