218 45. COMPOSITE. 



forms are named, but they defy definition. — Woods, banis, walls. 

 P. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 



**** Fseudo-accipitrirus. Inv. subglabrous. Rt.-l. often 

 forming a winter rosette but rarely present with, the flowers. 



25. H. goth'icum (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 

 tate at the middle, rt.-l. shortly stalked usually evanescent, lower 

 st.-l. often stalked and aggregate, upper st.-l. sessile, heads few 

 subcorymbose, ped. rigid erect slightly floocose, inv. roundly 

 ventricose siibglabrous or slightly hairy, phyll. dark green broad 

 blunt incumbent, style yellow with fuscous hairs. — Sy. E. B. 

 861. — Very variable, 1 — 4 ft. high, rigid, rarely much branched. 

 Et.-l. very rarely persistent. L. all similar, firm, narrowed at 

 both ends, sometimes very narrow. Heads large, cylindrical 

 when young. Inv. with few brownish hairs and very slightly 

 floocose or subglabrous. — ^. latifolium (Backh.) ; st. branched, 

 1. broadly lanceolate, style nearly wholly yellow. — Heathy or 

 grassy subalpine places. P. VII. — IX. E. S. I. 



iii. ACCIPITJRINA. Forming closed buds at the base of 

 the st. in autumn. No true rt. -leaves with the flowers. 

 St. leafy. Phyll. in many rows. Flairs of pappus rigid, 

 unequal. 



* Pseudo-pulmonarece. Rarely foi-ming small basal rosettes 

 which do not outlive the winter. 



26. H. tridentdtum (Fr.) ; st. leafy, 1. lanceolate few-toothed 

 at the middle falsely 3-veined, rt.-l. narrowed into winged pe- 

 tioles, st.-l. sessile, bracts nearly linear, heads corymbose, round- 

 based inv. and long floccose slender ped. with short hairs, inv. 

 of fr. truncate below constricted in the middle, phyll. pale-edged 

 subglabrous rather blunt, styles livid. — Sy. S. B. 852. — Rt.-l. 

 rarely persistent. St. 2 — 6 ft. high, often much branched above, 

 with leaves decreasing successively to small bracts, hairy below. 

 Petioles and base of sessile 1. villose. Teeth of 1. usually large. 

 Heads rather small. Inv. of fr. often an acute cone, sometimes 

 floocose. Pappus reddish. — Banks. P. VIII. IX. E. S. 



** Aphyllopodce. Never forming rosettes. Root-leaves 

 fading early. 



t Flowers minutely pilose. 



27. H. prenanthmdes (Vill.) ; st. leafy, I. all clasping net- 

 veined and glaucous beneath hairy on both sides, lowest narrowed 

 into wiuged auricled petioles, interm. pinched above their base, 

 uppermost 1. cordate-lanceolate, heads in a corymbose panicle, 

 ped, short lax very floccose and setose, inv. cylindrical rather 



