COMPOSITE. 131 
The spotted appearance of the leaves of this plant has given rise to the popular 
notion that they cure cutaneous eruptions. 
GENUS XXXII— ~L EONTODON. Linn. 
Anthodcs many-flowered. Pericline oblong-ovoid ; pliyllarics 
numerous, irregularly imbricated in several rows, or in 2 series 
with the outer ones much shorter. Clinanth naked or slightly 
fibrillous. Achenes longitudinally ribbed, and transversely striate 
or sub-muricated, attenuated or sometimes beaked at the apex. 
Pappus of the central achenes of denticulate hairs, the longer ones 
dilated at the base ; pappus of the achenes of the circumference 
sometimes very short and composed of scales, but usually similar 
to that of the central achenes. 
Herbs, with the leaves in a radical rosette. Scapes simple or 
oorymbosely branched. Anthodes rather large. -Florets yellow, 
the exterior ones often green or reddish on the back. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the Greek words Aewj' [lean), lion, and 
ocov: (odous), a tooth, its jagged leaves resembling the jaws of a lion. 
Sub-Genus I.— THRINCIA. Roth. 
Achenes of the circumference with a pappus of denticulated 
scales, and no hairs ; those of the centre with the hairs of the 
pappus elongated, dilated at the base, and plumose, often with 
shorter filiform and scabrous hairs on the outside. Hairs of the 
leaves forked or simple. 
SPECIES I.— LEONTODON HIRTUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCXCIL 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1G94. 
h. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXV. 
Thrmcia hirta, Roth. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 194. Hook. & Am. Brit. FL 
• 1. viii. p. 210, et Auct. Plur. 
Hedypnois hirtum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 555. 
Rootstock generally premorse, more rarely terminating in a 
tap-root ; radical fibres slender. Leaves strapshapcd-oblanceolate 
or oblcng-oblanceolate, repand-dentatc or sinuate-dentate, gene- 
rally hispid with forked hairs. Scapes 1-flowered, sparingly hairy, 
■without leaves or bracts. Anthodes drooping before expansion. 
