280 COMPOSITE. [Leontodon, 



scapes single-flowered ascending glabrous below." — Br. Fl. p. 303. 

 Hedypnois, E. B. t. 555. 



/3. Leaves glabrous, shining. 



On pastures, heaths and gravelly banks, fallows, &c. ; common. Fl. July, 

 August. H. 



E.Med. — About Ryde, at Ninham. About Qaarr abbey. Meadows near 

 Apley, St. John's, he. 



p. Ou the short turf of Freshwater down, above Alum bay, he, frequent. 

 [On St. Helens spit, A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] A mere variety, of which the 

 leaves are almost perfectly glabrous, shining, and firmer in texture than usual. 



Ront praemorse, emittins; a bundle of stronn; yellowish fibres. Leaves radical, 

 spreading all round, shorter than the scapes, linear or linear-lanceolate, sinuato- 

 dentate, tapering at the base into a narrow winged petiole, rough on both sides 

 with whitish hairs, forked at their summits and arising from small tubercles. 

 Scapes several, single-flowered, ascending, rounded and leafless, enlarged upwards 

 beneath the flowers, mostly thou^'h not always glabrous in their upper part, 

 clothed on their lower with hairs like those on the leaves. Flowers golden yellow. 

 Scales of the involucre much shorter than the rays, in a twofold series, the outer 

 at the base of the inner and much shorter than them, close- pressed, imequal, 

 placed alternately higher and lower ; inner scales in a single row, numerous, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, equal and greenish, both series either quite glabrous or hairy on 

 their keels. Rays, especially of the outer florets, very broad, flat and 5-toothed, 

 greenish at the back, where the teeth have a thickened, often notched projection, 

 like that of Apargia hispida. Receptacle flat, naked, alveoli with ragged edges. 

 Achenia oblong, tapering at both ends, those of the circumference smooth or 

 faintly wrinkled, crowned with a deep, membranous, jagged cup or border, and 

 mostly abortive ; the inner beautifully ribbed and transversely striated with raised 

 points. Pappus rough, feathery, sessile. 



XXXI. Leontodon, Linn. Hawkbit. 



"Involucre subimbricated, exterior scales much smaller, in 

 1 — 3 rows. Receptacle jDunctured. Fruit uniform, slightly beaked. 

 Pappus of all the fruit in two rows ; outer setaceous, persistent ; 

 inner longer, feathery, dilated at the base." — Bah. Man. 



1. L. hispidum, L. Rough Hawkbit. " Scape single-flowered, 

 thickened ujpwards slightly hispid naked or with 1 — 2 minute 

 scales, leaves runcinate hispid with forked hairs, flowers drooping 

 in bud, involucre hairy." — Br. Fl. p. 202. E. B. t. 554. Apargia 

 Hedypnois, Huds. 



In dry meadows, pastures, and on gravelly heaths, &c. ; frequent. Fl. June — 

 September. !(.. 



Root thick, fleshy, blackish and creeping, sending down many stout fibres hav- 

 ing a tough central chord. Leaves all radical, pale green, long, narrow, somewhat 

 pointed, rough all over with white forked hairs, deeply runcinate, the lobes trian- 

 gular, lower ones pointing backwards, those near the summit of the leaf broader 

 and shallower, variously cut or toothed in a waving manner. Scapes several, 

 sometimes solitary, single-flowered, about a foot high, leafless, furrowed and angu- 

 lar, a little enlarging upwards below the flowers, and rough with spreading hairs 

 like those on the leaves. Involucral bracts densely hispid, linear, blackish green, 

 outer ones in a single row, n^uch shorter than the inner, which are nearly equal 

 and almost smooth at their tips with a slight downiness merely. Flowers rather 

 large, above an inch across, golden yellow ; florets all perfect, their rays much 

 longer than the involucre, ribbed and truncate, the 5 teeth at their extremities 

 thickened or glandular at the back. Receptacle somewhat hairy, flat, the alveoli 



