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irregularly corymbose, ped. straight floccose scarcely setose, inv. 

 elUptical tKinly floccose setose and hairy, phyll. irregularly im- 

 bricate blunt, outermost rather acute, styles with dark hairs, 

 fr. fuscous.— H. denticulatum E. B. 2122.— 1—3 ft. high. St. 

 slightly hairy. L. broad, not auricled, mostly with bulbous hairs 

 beneath. Heads thicker and paler than those of H.prenanthoides. 

 Phyll. pale-edged, not in two distinct ranks. Pappus reddish. — 

 Mountain glens. P. VII. VIII. 



tt Florets glabrous at the tips. 



29. H.umbellatum (L.); St. leafy, I. all linear or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate narrowed below sessile net-veined, heads in an umbellate 

 corymb, top of ped. floccose, turbinate-based inv. uniformly dark 

 green glabrous, phyll. blunt with recurved points, styles yellow. — 

 E.B. 1771.-1-4 ft. high. St. rigid, hairy below. L. usually 

 all alike or upper rather broad and rounded at the base. Outer 

 phyll. often very small, slender, acute. Inv. very rarely straw- 

 coloured, rarely with a few white hairs. Pappus whitish. — 

 Sandy and stony places. P. VII. — IX. 



30. H. crocatum (Ft.) ; st. leafy, 1. oblong or narrowly lan- 

 ceolate sessile with a broad base falsely 3- veined, lower 1. nar- 

 rowed downwards, heads subcorymbose, branches nearly simple, 

 ped. floccose, inv. very broad and blunt below subglabrous, phyll. 

 blackish blunt adpressed, styles yellowish with fuscous hairs. — 

 H. inuloides Tausch. — Very variable. 1^ — 4 ft. high. St. rigid. 

 L. toothed or nearly entire ; lower often narrowed very gra- 

 dually but again slightly enlarged at their base. Inv. rarely 

 pilose. Inner phyll. sometimes pale-edged. — Mountaui districts. 

 P. VII. VIII. 



31. H. rigidum (Fr.) ; st. leafy, 1. ovate-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late denticulate or subdentate at their middle rounded below 

 falsely 3-veined, lower 1. narrowed into short winged petioles, 

 heads in a rather leafy branched corymbose panicle, round-based 

 inv. and floccose ped. with scattered hairs, inv. of fr. not con- 

 stricted conical, phyll. uniformly blackish green blunt adpressed, 

 styles yellowish with fuscous hairs. — H. rigidum and H. corym- 

 bosum Bab. — 3 — 4 ft. high. St. rigid, mostly glabrous. Upper- 

 most 1. broad-based. Inv. of fr. often subglabrous, blunt, rarely 

 floccose. Inner phyll. sometimes pale-edged. Pappus reddish. 

 —Mountain districts. P. VIII. IX. 



32. H. corymbosum (Fr.) ; st. very leafy, I. ovate-lanceolate 

 dentate below clasping net-veined glaucous beneath, heads in a 

 spreading branched corymbose panicle, inv. ovate or subtruncate 

 below and ped. slightly hairy setose and floccose, phyll. blunt, 

 inner pale-edged, outer phyll. acutish, styles yellow. — 3 — 4 ft. 



