134 ENGLISH BOTAJTT. 
Sub-Genus III.— OPORINIA. Don. 
All the aclicncs with a pappus of elongated hairs. Hairs of 
the pappus in 1 row, all slightly dilated at the base, and plumose. 
Rootstock premorse. Anthodes erect in bud. Hairs of the leaves 
simple. 
SPECIES III — L E O N T O D O N AUTUMNALIS. Linn. 
Plates DCCXCIV. DCCXCV. 
Billot, Fl. GalL et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1510. 
/,'. ich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLVI. Figs. 2, 3. 
Apargia autumnalis, Willd. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 194. Hook. & Am. Brit. 
FL ed. viii. p. 210. 
Oporinia autumnalis, Don. Bromjield, Fl. Vect. p. 281. 
Rootstock premorse, simple or branched and many-headed. 
Leaves strapshaped-oblanceolate or oblong-strapshaped or oblan- 
ceolate-linear, varying from deeply pinnatifid to repand-dentate, 
glabrous or hairy with simple hairs. Scapes branched, rarely 
1-flowercd, thickened and fistulous at the apex, with numerous 
small scale-like bracts beneath the anthodes. Anthodes erect 
before expansion. Phyllaries glabrous or woolly. Achenes all 
cylindrical, not beaked, longitudinally ribbed, with ribs faintly 
squamose-muricated. Pappus dirty-white, with all the hairs plu- 
mose, or rarely a few simple ones below the others. 
Var. a, genmnus. 
Plate DCCXCIV. 
llnlypnois autumnalis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 830. 
Pcriclinc and peduncles glabrous or sub-glabrous. 
Var. 3, pratemis. Koch. 
Plate DCCXCV. 
Hedypnois Taraxici, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1109, non Hieracium Taraxici, Linn. Sp. PI. 
p. L125. 
Pcriclinc, peduncles and upper part of the scape thickly clothed 
with woolly hairs. 
In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Very common, and 
universally distributed. Var. £ in mountainous districts. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
