HEDYPNOIS. 
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45. Hedypnois Tourn., Willd. 
I. H. RHAGADIOLOIDES (L.) Spr. 
St. several from the crown, mostly diffuse branched and leafy 
or reduced to 1-fld. leafless scapes ; 1. chiefly or wholly in a 
radical tuft lanceolate-oblong sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid 
mostly more or less hispidly pubescent, sometimes smooth ; 
heads drooping in bud, subglobose swollen hard and tQrulose 
in fr. with thickened fleshy semicvlindric hornlike smooth 
echinulate or hispid-setose scales ; ped. more or less swollen up- 
wards ; ach. large 2-3 lines long incurved cylindric slender trun- 
cate. — Spr. Svst. iii. 670 ; Schultz in WB. ii. 396. H. cretica 
Koch 479. H. polymorpha Gren. et Godr. ii. 288. H. mons- 
peliensis, mauritanica , rhagadioloides , cretica and pendula Willd. 
iii. 1616-1618. II. cretica , coronopifolia, polymorpha and pen- 
dula DC. vii. 81, 82. H. coronopifolia and tubceformis Ten. 
II. tubceformis and cretica RFG. xix. 6, 7, tt. 10, ll. H. tubce- 
formis , cretica and polymorpha Willk. et Lange ii. 207. Hyo- 
seris Hedypnois, Rhagadioloides and cretica Linn. Sp. (ed. 2) 1138, 
1139. Hyoseris hedypnois and rhagadioloides Vill. Dauph. iii. 
165. Hyoseris hedypnois and cretica Lam. Diet. iii. 160 ; Brot. 
i. 322. H. cretica Desf. ii. 232. Hyoseris monspeliensis , mau- 
ritanica, rhagadioloides, cretica and pendula Pers. ii. 369. Hyo- 
seris mauritanica and pendida Poir. Suppl. iii. 82. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, cc ; PS. reg. 1, 2, cc. Open barren ground, road- 
sides &c. general near the sea. Valle road, Levada de S til 
Luzia, Loo-fields and St. Amaro road about Funchal ; P ta de 
Sao Lourenco very abundant at the Piedade on the sandy 
grassy slopes. PS. in cornfields and waste ground everywhere. 
Not seen in the Desertas. Jan.-June, but almost at all seasons. 
— Boot ann. or bien. pale or whitish somewhat fleshy. From 
its crown springs a tuft of full gr. 1. and several procumbent 
st. or branches 3-12 in. long, very often reduced to one-fid. 
scape-like ped. bearing a single 1. or none. Whole pi. very 
variable in pubescence, often nearly or quite smooth especially 
the upperside of 1. Branches sparingly forked with a ses- 
sile subentire leaf and 1 or 2 long-stalked fl. from each fork 
or axil. L. 3 or 4 in. long mostly smooth above, more or less 
hispid at the edges and beneath, the lower sinuato-pinnatifid 
with short broad subobtuse subremote lobes or teeth. Ped. 
2-4 in. long stiff stout thickened and smooth upwards, sub- 
compressed or angular. Fl. small and inconspicuous -£•- £ in. 
in diam., bright full lemon or golden-y. with a black eye or 
point in the middle only so long as any of the central florets re- 
main unopened, closing at noon. Outer involucral scales or 
bractlets few short membranous deep gr., inner pale thick 
and fleshy except at the points, all dark at the tips, the inner 
