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47 . COMPOSITACEJE. 
tf2. H. RADICATA L. a. 
Steniless ; root per. or at least bien. partly stoloniferou or 
creeping thickish Jleshy subdivided the divisions tapshaped ; ti.- 
st. radical always naked leafless numerous from the crown 
ascending elongately branched ; 1. all radical furry or hispido- 
pubescent oblong attenuate downwards deeply sinuato-pinna- 
tijid , lobes obtuse or rounded as broad as deep; fl. large , the 
florets much longer than the longer inner scales of inv. ; ped. 
1-fld. elongate thickened at top, sparingly bracteolate ; scales 
of inv. keeled, keel black-crested at the tip, often ciliately 
setose-fringed below ; ach. all mostly with a beak longer than 
themselves. — Linn. Sp. 1140; Till. Dauph. iii. 63; Lam. Enc. 
v. 570 ; EB. t. 831 ; Brot. i. 331 ; Pers. ii. 378; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 
3/6; DO. vii. 91 ; Koch 490 ; Coss. et Germ. ii. 427 ; Bab. 192; 
Gren. et Godr. ii. 293 ; RFG. xix. 21, t. 46, and t. 47. f. i. 
(statu depauperato unitioro) ; Willk. et Lange ii. 228. 
a. rostrata Moris., Gr. et Godr. 1. c. ; Wilik. et Lange 1. c. ; 
ach. all more or less beaked. — H. neapolitana DC. vii. 91. — 
Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, r. Abundant and completely natura- 
lized in fields and by roadsides at St. Ant 0 da Serra, extending 
already a mile or more along the road towards Funchal from 
Mr. Blandy’s house and farm which have been its centre of 
diffusion, though not introduced more than 15 or 20 years ago 
with grass-seeds from England. May- July. — Root strong 
vertical dividing below the thickened per. crown into 2 or 3 
tap-shaped branches running deep into the ground, often sto- 
loniferous with stout short subterranean horizontal runnel’s 
from beneath the crown forming fresh pi. Leaf-st. 0 or very 
short ; 1. all in a flat rosette of 2 or 3 rows very close-pressed 
to the ground and killing all other herbage, dull hoarv gr. 
and thicklv furry with short w. bristly pubescence on both 
sides, 3-6 in. long, i-1 in. broad, never red or rose-coloured. 
Fl.-st. several or many ascending in quick succession or toge- 
ther from the flat radical leaf-star like scapes, 6-18 in. high 
remotely fork-branched hard stiff twig-like or wirv but gr. 
and slender, quite naked and leafless except a few minute 
bracts at the forks, sprinkled with bristly w. hairs downwards, 
villose at the base. Ped. 4 or 5 in. long angular-striate spa- 
ringly bracteolate and thickened upwards under the antho- 
dium, br. remote scattered minute linear-lanceolate erect livid 
or lurid purple or v. Fl.-buds always erect, when very young 
globose or hemispherical, then oblong, and when closed in fl. 
or in fr. pvramidal and ventricose at the base. Fl. very like 
those of Thrincia hixpida Roth, but larger, 1-1 £ in. in diam. or 
from the size of a half-crown to that of a crown or dollar, 3 or 
4 times as large its those of ][. glabra L. and of a deeper fuller y. 
as in Thr. hixpida Roth or Taraxacum officinale Wigg., the outer 
