532 
47. C0MP0SITACE2E. 
liispidulous, the upper smooth or glabrescent. Cymes terminal 
broad loosely and erectly fork-branched, branches and ped. 
slender round smooth with a narrow-lanceolate or linear 1. at 
each fork. FI. small 3-5 lines in diam., with about 10 florets, 
bright lemon-y. Heads cylindric, in fr. angular. Scales of 
inv. quite smooth carinate dark gr. upwards, those of the ca- 
lycle 4 or 5 very close-pressed, about or 4 the length of 
the others which are only 3 lines long, forming in fr. an erect 
oblong- obovate or slightly barrel-shaped open cup with their 
tips a little connivent. Ach. very deciduous, 2 lines long, 
scarcely \ line broad, slender or narrow, attenuate downwards, 
broader but contracted and subtruncate quite at top, without 
any trace of crown or pappus. 
A useless but not troublesome weed. 
Tribe XXV. Leontodontece Schultz. 
47. Thrincia Roth. 
1. T. hispid a Roth. Leituga. 
Per. or at least bien. ; root tapshaped or fibro-fusiform simple 
or branched immediately below the crown, tapering into long 
strings or fibres, not abruptly truncate or prannorse ; 1. in a 
dense radical tuft, thickly hispid remotely sinuato-toothed ob- 
long-lanceolate attenuate and subpinnatifid downwards ; scapes 
1 -fid. slender numerous ascending, hirtose downwards, mostly 
2 or 3 times as long as the 1. ; fl.-buds drooping; all the ach. 
except the outer row attenuately produced into a slender beak 
of about half their whole length. — u Roth Cat. i. 99 ;” Brot. i. 
327 ; Spr. iii. 665 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 296 ; RFG. xix. 7, t. 13. 
f. ii. ; Willk. et Lange i. 213. T. pygmcca Schultz in WB. ii. 
467 (not Pers. ii. 369. no. 5 which = Hyoseris pygmcca Ait.! 
Ilort. Kew. ed. 1. iii. 130 which = Thrincia hirta Roth). T. 
nudicaulis Lowe! Prim. 28; DC.! vii. 100. no. 6; Seub. FI. 
Az. 33, t. xii. f. 1. Lcontodon nudicaule Sol.! MSS. in BH. 
partly (i. e. quoad ex. Mad.) ; Buch ! 194. no. 222. Thrincia 
viaroccana Pers. 1. c. no. 4 ; DC. 1. c. no. 5 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 
214? T. mauritanica Spr. 1. c. 666. T. hirta ft. hispid a Coss. 
et Germ. ii. 428. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc; PS. reg. 2, 
3, 4, \ ; Gl). and SI), reg. 2, r. Waste and cult, ground, road- 
sides, Holds, mountain-pastures, &c. everywhere in Mad., chiefly 
below 2000-3000 ft., not so common in PS. In spring chiefly, 
but throughout the year. The two following van*, or forms 
grow intermixed, the first predominating : — 
a. chcctocephala Lowe ; scales of inv. setose-hispid. T. his- 
yida Spr. 1. c. ; RFG. 1. c. T. pygmcca A, Schultz in WB. 
1. c. 468 (not Ait., Pers.). — About ithe Valle, Funchal, Rib. de 
