246 
Composite. 
the ligules yellow, except those of the circumference 
which are red underneath (E. permixtum N. P. = H. 
aurantiac. microcephalum Lagg.)—Alps (1700—2580 m), 
especially in Graub. (Engadine, Albula, Spliigen, Avers, 
Parpan), more rare in Wall. (Eginenthal, Simplon), Yaud 
(Alp de Montreux), Glarus (Sandalp), Appenzell. 7 
fuscum Vill. 1367.*) 
17 (7). Stem hollow, easily compressed, often reddish in the 
lower part. Ls green, larger and broader than in H. flo- 
rentinum, often slightly sinuate-denticulate. Hairs long. 
Invols dark, with numerous simple and a few glandi¬ 
ferous hairs. H. fallax strigosum Gaud, herb.! H. pra- 
tense Tausch (1828).—Meadows and peat-bogs; only 
in the lower part of the St. Gall Rhine-valley; also not 
far beyond our boundaries near Bregenz, Lindau and 
Constance, found also in the north-east of Switz. (See 
B. S. M. 19.) 7 . . collinum Gochn. (1808) 1368. 
Section 5. Cymosina. \1) 
18. Stem 40—70 cm. Ls gen. broader and more obtuse than 
in H. florentinum and H. Zizianum, green or slightly 
yellowish-green. Inflorescence more or less umbel-shaped! 
Invols small, slight. H. Nestleri Koch.—a. typicum. In¬ 
florescence lax; peduncles and invols with long whitish, 
gen. very numerous hairs, mixed with glandiferous hairs 
which are not numerous, or, at any rate, not easily 
seen; stem-hairs short. —b. sabinum Seb. and Maur. Like 
var. a., but inflorescence more or less compact! hairs 
longer (those of the lower part of the stem longer than 
its diam.).—c. cymigerum Rchb. (cymosum Vaillantii 
Excursfl., H. fallax Schl.!) Inflorescence very lax; invols 
and peduncles less villous than in the 2 last, but more 
glandular; hairs always very short.—d. Sandozei Grrnl. 
N. Beitr. Ilf, 13. Approaching H. florentinum pilo- 
selloides (hybrid?) by its inflorescence.—Hills; a. lower 
. and mountain region, rare; Wall.! Bruggerberg! Irchel! 
Schaffh.! Altstiitten; b. Alp. especially southern (14 to 
2000 m); Graub., Wall, and probably other parts, con¬ 
fused with H. cruentum; c. Grindelwald! Wall. ? d. Fully. 
5 (at least var. a. before H. florentinum and H. Zizianum) 
cymosum L. 1369. 
— Comp. 11. Laggeri (13) differing from H. cymosum sa¬ 
binum in its lower stems, its shorter rad. ls and its 
heads being rather larger. See also II. Zizianum (20) 
and cruentum (15). 
*) The forms derived from II. aurantiacum may also be sought for here. 
