PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, A. 1 89. Virea. 429 
XIV. 189. VIREA. Adanson. Virey. 
Pericline ovate; scales many, imbricate, unequal, irre- 
gular ; calathides many-flowered ; clinanthus convex, rather 
hairy, with hollow dots, edge of the pits fringed ; akenium 
streaked ; pappus of the circumference sessile ; rays chaffy 
and bristly, mixed, unequal ; of the centre with unequal 
and featherlike rays. — Leaves mostly radical ; calathides 
yellow. 
a. Apargiae. Tube of the corolla hairy at the mouth ; tip of 
the lobes glandular ; scape simple. 
1. Virea hispida. Bristly virey. 
Leaves pinnatifid, oblong, hirsute; hairs forked; scape 
simple, bald ; pericline rather hirsute. 
Dens leonis hirsutus Asjrxojfai/Aoj, hieracium dictus, Raii Syn. 17,1,3. 
Hieracium dentis leonis folio hirsutum, Ger. em. 303, 6 ; figure not 
accurate. 
Hieracium asperum foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbosi, Park. 788; 
figure not accurate. 
Leontodon hispidum, Lin. S. P. 1124. 
Hedypnois hispida, Huds. FI. Angl . 340. 
Dandelion hawk-weed. 
Chalky pastures; perennial; July. 
Root fusiform ; calathides drooping, afterwards upright. 
2. Virea incana. Grey virey. 
Leaves oblong, rather toothed, woolly, rough ; hairs ra- 
diated at the tip ; scape simple, downy ; pericline downy. 
Dens leonis montanus angustifolius, Raii Syn. 171,4. 
Hieracium sextum Clusii, Ger.em. 302, 3. 
Hieracium montanum angustifoiium, Park. 709. 
Hieracium incamnn, Lin. S. P. 
Leontodon Taraxacum y, Huds. FI. Angl. 340. 
Hieracium alpinism, Villars Dsfph. 3,94. 
Alpine pastures and walls ; peren. ; May to September. 
b. Vi re as. Tube of the corolla laid ; tip of the lobes not 
glandular ; scape often branched. 
3. Virea Pyreniaca. Py reman virey . 
Leaves murieated, toothed, bald; scape simple or slightly 
branched; bractea 1, about the middle of the scape; peri- 
cline hairy. 
Hieracium Taraxici, Lin. S. P. 1125. 
Pieris Taraxici, Allioni Pedem. I, 24. 
Hedypnois autumnale s, Huds. FI. Angl. 34h 
Hedypnois Taraxaci, Smith FI. Brit. 825. 
Leontodon Taraxaci, Engl Bot. 820. 
Apargia Taraxaci, Willd. S. P. 3, 1550. 
