iS8 SYNGENESIA POL YG AMI A .EQUALIS. 
fewer in number and often reflex at the bafe. The com- 
pound flower is imbricated and uniform ; the herma- 
phrodite florets are numerous and equal. The proper 
flower is monopetalous, ligulated, linear, truncated, and 
quinquedentated. The five filaments are very fliort and 
flender, with cylindraceous, tubulofe anthers. The ger- 
men is partly ovate, tiie ilyle is flender and the length 
of the corolla, the two fligmata are bended back. 1 here 
is no feed veflel, but the cup is oblong and ftraight. 
The feeds are folitary, oblong and fcabrous. The down' 
is plumofe. 
tT araxacum. Dandelion with the cup at the bottom 
reflex. The Dandelion with a narrower leaf of Bauhin, 
and the Mountain Dandelion with a narrov/ leaf of Ray, 
are only varieties. In meadows and pafuires. Per, 
April — June, 
Hifptdum. Rough Dandelion with an eredl rough cup, 
rjnugh dentated, entire leaves, and forked briftles. May^ 
June, 
Autimnale, Tellozv DeviVs Bit with fmooth dented, 
entire leaves, eredi; cups, and fquamofe peduncles. Per. 
Aug. 
H I E R A C I U M. EIawkweed. 
The common cup is imbricated and cylindrical with 
many linear and very unequal fcales that are longitudi- 
nal, and one upon the other. The compound flower is 
imbricated and uniform; the hermaphrodite flowers are 
numerous and equal. The proper flower is monopeta- 
lous, ligulated, linear, truncated, and quinquedentated. 
The filaments are five, flender and very fhort, with cy- 
lindraceous, tubulofe antherte. The germen is partly 
o\^ate, the flyle is flender and the length of the framina, 
havino; two fligmata bended backwards. The feeds are 
folitary, cbtufely tetragonal, and fliort: The pappus is 
piiofe. 
Alpinum. Mountain Hawkweed with oblong, entire, 
dented 
