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fv. truncate belotv constricted in the middle, phyll. pale-edged 
subglabrous rather blunt, styles livid. — Rt.-l. rarely persistent. 
•2 — 5 ft. high. St. often much branched above, with leaves de- 
creasing successively to small bracts, hairy below. Petioles and 
base of sessile 1. villose. Teeth of 1. usually large. Inv. of fr. 
often an acute cone, sometimes floccose. Pappus reddish.— 
Banks. P. Vm. LX. E. S. I. 
** Aphyllopodte. Never forming rosettes. Rt.-l. fading 
early. 
t Flowers minutely pilose or subylabroits at the tips. - 
27. If. prennnthoules ("\'ill.); st. leafy, I. all clasping net- 
veined and glaucous beneath hairy on both sides, lowest narrowed 
into winged auricled petioles, interm. pinched above their base, 
uppermost "1. cordate-lanceolate, heads in a corymbose panicle, 
ped. short lax veiy floccose and setose, inv. cylindrical rather 
floccose very setose, oxter phyll. few much the shortest, inner all 
about equal and blunt, styles with dark hairs, fr. pale.— -B. B. 
2235. — 1 — 3 ft. high. St. rather rigid, usually hairy. Pan. leafy 
below. Heads small. Pappus whitish. — River-sides in the 
North. P.Vn.VIII. E.S.I. 
28. H. stric'tiim (Fv.) ; st. leafy, /. sessile oblong-lanceolate 
denticidate glaucous beneath, lowest lanceolate much narrowed 
below, npjjerniost I. roxmded below scarcely clasping, heads 
irregularly corjnnbose, ped. straight floccose scarcely setose, inv. 
elliptic thinly floccose setose and hairy, 2>hyll. irregularly im- 
bricate blunt, outermost rather acute, styles with dark hairs, 
£r. fuscous.— H. denticiUatum E. B. 2122.-1—3 ft. high. St. 
slightly hairy. L. broad, not auricled, mostly with bulbous hairs 
beneath. Heads thicker and paler than those of H. prenantho'ides. 
Phvll. pale-edged, not in two distinct ranks. Pappus reddish. 
—Mountain glens. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
tt Flowers glabrous at the tips. 
29. H. umbelldtum (L.) ; st. leafy, I. all linear or oblong-lan- 
ceolate narroiced below sm«fc "net-veined, heads in an tmibellate 
corymb, top of ped. floccose, tm-binate-based i?iv. uniformly dark 
green glabrous, phyll. blunt with recurved points, styles yellow. — 
F. B. 1771. — 1 — 4 ft. high. St. rigid, hairy below. L. usually 
all alike or upper rather broad and rounded at the base. Outer 
phyll. often veiy small, slender, acute. Inv. very rarely straw- 
colom-ed, rarely with a few white hairs. Pappus whitish. — 
Sandy and stony places. P. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 
30. H. crocdtum (Fr.) ; st. leafy, 1. oblong or naiTowly lan- 
ceolate sessile with a broad base falsely 3-veined, lower 1. nar- 
rowed downwards, heads subcoiymbose, branches nearly sitnple, 
