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XLYT. COMPOSITE: CICHORACEvE. 
[. Apargia . 
hooked bristles, leaves lanceolate rough toothed, flowers corym- 
bose, peduncles with many bracteas, outer scales of the invo- 
lucre linear-oblong lax bristly on the keel. E. B. t. 196. 
Road-sides and borders of fields; frequent in England; not found 
in Scotland. Portmarnock, Ireland. $. 6 — 10. — Stems 2 — 3 ft. 
high. Flowers yellow. Pappus of the marginal and central florets alike. 
4. Apargia Schreb. Hawkbit. 
Achenes beaked. Pappus feathery. Recept. naked. Invol. 
unequally imbricated, with hirsute black scales. — Name : 
airapyia, some uncertain weed known to the Greeks which 
sprung up a7ro,frotn, apyia, the idleness of the cultivator. 
* Pappus with an outer row of bristles. 
1. A. hispida Willd. ( rough H.) ; scape single-flowered 
thickened upwards slightly hispid naked or with 1 — 2 minute 
scales, leaves runcinate hispid with forked hairs, flowers droop- 
ing in bud, involucre hairy. Hedypnois Huds. : E. B. t. 554. 
Leontodon L. 
Meadows, pastures, and gravelly heaths, frequent. If.. 6 — 9. 
** Pappus simple. (Oporinia Don.) 
2. A. autumnalis Willd. ( autumnal H.) ; scape scaly upwards, 
leaves lanceolate toothed or pinnatifid nearly glabrous, pedun- 
cles swollen beneath the involucres. — a. leaves nearly glabrous, 
scape branched, involucres somewhat downy. Hedypnois E. B. 
t. 830. Oporinia Don. — 0. leaves glabrous, scape almost simple, 
involucre clothed with blackish hairs. Hedypnois Taraxaci 
E.B.t. 1109. — y. leaves hairy, scapes branched, involucres 
with dark hairs. 
Meadows and pastures, frequent. — 0. on mountains. — y. in High- 
land glens. 8. — Involucre cylindrical, and tapering gradually 
into the pedicel. Flowers moderately large, yellow. Pappus brownish- 
white. 
5. Thrincia Roth. Thrincia. 
Achenes tapering into a beak, the outer ones enveloped by 
the leaves of the involucre. Pappus of the marginal florets 
forming a short scaly cup, of the rest long, feathery. Recept. 
naked. Invol. imbricated. — Name : SpiyvoQ, a battlement; from 
the resemblance of the seed-crown of the marginal florets to 
the battlements of a wall. 
1. T. hirta Roth ( hairy T.) ; leaves lanceolate sub-sinuato- 
dentate somewhat hispid with frequently forked hairs, scapes 
single-flowered ascending glabrous below. Hedypnois E. B. 
t. 555. 
