SECOND DIVISION. 



PULMONAREA. 



EOOT-LEAVES PERSISTENT, FORMING ROSETTES (ROSULATE 

 TTTPTS OF LEAVES) IN AUTUMN. INVOLUCRE INTERRUPTEDLY 

 AND IRREGULARLY IMBRICATE. FRUIT SHORT, TRUNCATE, 

 NOT CRENULATE AT THE TOP, STRIATE. HAIRS OF THE 

 PAPPUS UNEQUAL, RIGID. 



a. ALVISJE. 



Involucres sliaggy or silky. Outer jphyllaries more or less lax ; 

 inner ones acuminate or acute. Florets hairy externally, 

 more or less jpilose at the tips. Stem ■with, one or few 

 (usually small) leaves, or foliaceous bracts. Plant green. 



3. H. ALPINXIM. Beep green. Stem one headed, hairy, floccose. 

 JSoot-lecwes ora^«-spathulate, obtuse or sub-acute, remotely 

 and bluntly dentate, sub-glabrous above, narrowed into 

 petioles. Stem-leaves lanceolate or linear lanceolate. In- 

 volucre hemispherical, densely clothed with rather shaggy 

 black-based hairs. Phyllaries few, Iroad, acuminate, lax ; 

 outer ones sub-obtuse. Florets hairy externally, shortly 

 pilose at the tips. Styles yellow. 



H. aVpinum. Linn. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 525, and other authors* (in 

 part). 



* Nono of the desoriptions of II. alpinum whidh I have hitherto seen agreeing 

 exclusively with this plant, I omit giving synonyms -which may only lead to 

 confusion. 



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