310 CICHORIACEAE. Vor. III. 
About 45 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Apargia incana Scop. 
Scape scaly-bracted, mostly branched; pappus of plumose bristles only. 1. A. autumnalis. 
Scape bractless, monocephalous; pappus of two kinds. : 
Pappus of marginal and inner flowers dissimilar. 2. A. nudicaulis. 
Pappus of all flowers alike. 3. A. hispida. 
1. Apargia autumnale (L.) Hoffm. Fall 
Dandelion. Autumnal Hawkbit. Lion’s- 
tooth. Fig. 4051. 
Leontodon autumnale L. Sp. Pl. 798. 1753. 
Apargia autumnalis Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. Ed. 2, 2: 
113. 1800, 
Plant glabrous or nearly so, or the involucres 
and ends of peduncles black-pubescent; scape 
slender, usually branched and scaly, 62° high. 
Leaves narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, pin- 
natifid into narrow lobes, or some of them coarsely 
dentate, 3-8’ long, 3-12” wide, acuminate at the 
apex, narrowed into rather short petioles; heads 
several, rarely solitary, about 12-15” broad; in- 
volucre oblong; achenes tapering into a short 
beak, or the outer ones nearly terete; pappus- 
bristles all plumose. 
In fields and along roadsides, Newfoundland to 
Ontario, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. 
Naturalized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 
June-Nov. Dog-dandelion. Arnica-bud. 
2. Apargia nudicaulis (L.) Britton. Rough , 
or Hairy Hawkbit. Fig. 4052. 
Crepis nudicaulis L. Sp. Pl. 805. 1753. 
Leontodon hirtum L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1123. 1763. 
Leontodon nudicaule Banks; Lowe, Trans. Camb. 
Phil. Soc. 4: 28. 1831. 
Plant more or less hirsute; scape simple, slender, 
4-12’ high, minutely scaly, or naked. Leaves 
linear-oblong to narrowly spatulate, acute or 
obtuse, not acuminate, nearly entire, coarsely 
sinuate-dentate or sometimes pinnatifid, 2’-5’ long, 
3-8” wide, narrowed into petioles ; head solitary 
at the end of the scape, 5’-10” broad; involucre 
canescent or pubescent; outer achenes with a 
pappus of simple narrow scales, the inner ones 
with a pappus of plumose bristles. 
In ballast and waste places, Connecticut to New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and on Vancouver Island. 
Adventive from Europe. June-Oct. ? 
3. Apargia hispida (L.) Willd. Common 
Hawkbit. Fig. 4053. 
Leontodon hispidus L. Sp. Pl. 799. 1753. 
Leontodon hastile L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1123. 1763. 
A. hispida Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1552. 1804. 
Glabrous, or bristly-hispid. Scape stout or slender, 
4’-25' high, bractless, monocephalous; head nodding 
before flowering; leaves 2-6’ long, oblong-lanceolate 
in outline, coarsely and sharply dentate or subpin- 
natifid; head 14’ broad or less; involucre 6-7” high; 
Pappus an outer series of short and an inner series 
of long plumose bristles, alike in all the flowers. 
Fields and waste grounds, Rhode Island to Pennsyl- 
vania, Ontario and Ohio. July—Sept. : 
