HTPOCH(ERIS. 
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with a ; e. g. in mountain pastures towards the Icehouse, and 
in fields at S. Ant 0 da Serra near Mr. Blandy’s house. May- 
July. — Judging from Mad. spec., this is a mere occasional 
chance-form of tx, ; and intermediate forms frequently occur 
with the pappus of some or all of the outer ach. with a stalk 
only half instead of quite the length (as in the inner) of the 
ach. themselves. 
A most variable pi. not only in size but in all its characters. 
L. spreading in a fiat rosette close-pressed to the ground, 
sharply sinuato-dentate ; in a mostly hirtose or hispid all over 
above, smooth beneath, mostly pale gr. subglaucescent, some- 
times shining bright gr., often with a red midrib and turning- 
red or rose-colour in withering ; in /3 mostly hispid only at the 
edges or on the midrib ; in both turning red, pink, or rose- 
colour in withering. Both vary equally in luxuriance and sta- 
ture. Fl.-st. one or more rising in succession like scapes from 
the radical leaf-rose, from 2 or 3 to 12 or even 18 in. high, 
straight erect virgate wiry quite smooth and naked except a 
small bract (very rarely a sessile 1.) at the forks, sparingly and 
remotely branched, often 1-fld. scape-like. Ped. naked without 
bracts, swollen and tubular beneath the fl., the latter erect in 
bud, open only in the morning, closing at noon, only | in. in 
diam., the florets not exceeding the inv. Heads narrowly lan- 
ceolate-oblong or slenderly cylindric. Scales of inv. flat with- 
out any fringed keel or crest but quite smooth and naked, im- 
bricate in several rows, their tips dark livid or lurid v. or olive. 
Ach. fusiform muricately ribbed purplish-chestnut. Pappus 
double ; outer row short simple scabrous or denticulate, inner 
longer plumose. Scales of recept. linear, in fi\ finely setaceo- 
acuminate filmy silvery-w., rather shorter than the pappus or 
not quite so long or finely hair-pointed as in H. radicata L., 
very caducous. 
H. dimorpha Brot. with the sessile pappus of the outer marginal 
ach. simply pilose, not plumose, has not occurred in Mad. ; 
but it can be scarcely more than a slight modification of 
var. a. 
Var. y erostris Godr. 1. c. with all the ach. beakless and pappus in 
all sessile (Willk. et Lange 1. c. ; var. /3 erostris Coss. et 
Germ. 1. c. ; var. c, KFG. 1. c. f. iv.) has also not been noticed 
in Mad., but may perhaps be found. 
