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lower thinly pubescent ; teeth numerous, small, sharp. Heads 
many, radiate, \ in. diam., on slender stalks crowded in broad, 
terminal corymbs. Involucral bracts linear, rigid, acute, inner 
ones as long as the flowers, outer shorter ; ligules short, broad, 
2- or 3-toothed. (Fig. 78.) 
Simla, common ; September, October. — W. Himalaya, 4000-7000 ft. 
22. VICOA. In honour of G. B. Vico, an Italian scientific 
author of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the 
eighteenth centuries. — Asia, Africa. 
Rough or softly hairy, erect herbs ; stems leafy, branched. 
Leaves alternate, stem-clasping, lobed at the base. Heads radiate, 
long-stalked. Involucral bracts many, inner ones as long as the 
disk-flowers, outer shorter ; receptacle flat, naked ; flowers yellow ; 
pappus scanty ; ligules 1- or 2-toothed ; corolla of disk-flowers 
5-lobed. Achenes small, cylindric, silky-pubescent. 
Roughly pubescent. Flowers orange-yellow. Ligules short, 
broad, recurved . . . . . . . . 1 . V. auricula ta. 
Densely and softly hairy. Flowers bright yellow. Ligules 
long.fnarrow, spreading . . . . . . 2. F. vestita. 
