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45. COMPOSITE. 
lowest 1. much narrowed below but scarcely stalked, heads in a 
rather leafy corymb or panicle, top of jied. Jloccose, ovate-based 
inv. uniformly blackish-green nearly glabrous or pilose, phyll. 
blunt adpressed, styles livid blackish. — H. sabaudum Sm. £. B. 
M9.^£j-sicc. Fasc. ii. 49.— St. 2—4 ft. high, rigid usually 
hairy and often very leafy below. Base of corymb or panicle 
leafy ; branches nearly erect. Interm. 1. narrowed to a rounded 
base ; upper with a broad rounded or subcordate base. Phyll. 
turning black, scarcely at all setose or floccose, rarely with 
spreading tips. Pappus whitish. — /3. calvatum (F. J. Hanb.) ; 
St. 15 in. — 2 ft. high, very glabrous, 1. few mth a tendency to 
crowding at the base. Heads few large, phyll. broader more 
obtuse less clothed and very dark, styles very dark. — Banks. 
/3. Carnarvonshire. P. VIII. IX. E. S. I. 
****** Umhellata. Stem rigid leafy without a basal rosette, 
sub-umbellate or corymbose at the top. St.-l. narrowed at 
the base sessile, the nerves on the under surface loosely 
anastomosing not reticulate-veined. Phyllaries broad 
obtuse. Ligules glabrous. 
97. //. wmbelldtum (L.) ; st. leafy, I. all linear or oblong- 
lanceolate narrowed below sessile net-veined, heads in an um- 
bellate corymb, top of ped. floccose, turbinate-based inv. uni- 
formly dark green glabrous, phyll. blunt ivith rectirved {joints, 
' styles yellow. — E. B. 1771 ; Exsicc. Fasc. ii. 50.— Stem 1—4 ft. 
high, rigid, hairy below. L. usually all alike, or upper rather 
broad and rounded at the base. Outer phyll. often very sraaU, 
slender, acute. Inv. very rarely straw-coloured, rarely with a 
few white hairs. Pappus whitish. — /3. coronopifolium (Bernh.) ; 
St. 1 — 3 ft. high corymbose or paniculate, ped. rigid erect or 
suberect, 1. very long narrow sharply and acutely toothed, sub- 
glabrous. — Exsicc. Fasc. v. 124. — 7. littorale (Lindeb.) ; st. 
6 — 12 in. high hairy floccose, 1. long narrow almost entire 
especially crowded together at the base of the stem, floccose on 
both surfaces not hairy, veins prominent. — 6. curtuiii. (Linton) ; 
8 — IG in. high, 1. very short almost entire, fi. few rather large 
on short spreading ped., outer phyll. broad obtuse reflexed. — 
e. Oyiceni (Linton) ; 1. fewer, upper sessile, lower narrowing 
into petioles, panicle sub-umbellate, tips of phyll. not recurved, 
nearly glabrous, not hairy slightly floccose with few scattered 
setae. — Sandy and stony places. 7. Channel Islands. 5. Sand- 
banks, Carnarvonshire, e. Banks of the Ogwen, Carnarvon- 
shire. P. VII.-IX. E.S.I. 
