FIEST DIVISION. 



FILOSELLOIDEA. 



PRODUCING STOLONS. STEM SCAPE-LIKE. INYOLUCRE 

 lEEEGULAELT IMBRICATE. FLORETS GLABROUS AT THE TIPS. 

 FRUIT (ACHENES) MINUTE, STRIATE, TRUNCATE AND CRENU- 

 LATE AT THE TOP. HAIRS OF THE PAPPUS EQUAL, VERT 

 SLENDER. 



a. PILOS£LL.a:. 



Stolons more or less elongated, rarely absent. Scape leafless 

 in the British species. Leaves flocoose beneath. Inner 

 pAylla/ries acute. 



1. H, FUOSELLA. Dtill green. Root-stock creeping ; with slen- 

 der, leafy, rooUng stolons. Primmry stem, one-headed, leafless. 

 Leaves oblong or lanceolate, clothed on both sides with 

 long coarse scattered hairs, densely floccose beneath. In- 

 volucre with an ovate base, ultimately conical, setose. 

 Outer phyllaries obtuse, inner ones acute. Florets glabrous. 

 Styles yellow. 



S.pilosella. Linn. Species Plantanun, ed. 3. vol. ii. p. 1125. 

 English Botany, tab. 1093. Koch, Synopsis riorse GermaniosB et 



