256 
Composite. 
oscence more thickly set, but with longer branches than 
in the Pulmonarea. (Ls toothed. Invols covered with 
numerous black, glandiferous hairs) . . • 50 
Section 6. Alpina • 
49. Styles yellow (brownish in the var. tubulosum). Invol. 
ls acute or subacute, the outer ones lax. Stem gen. not 
tall, 1-headed and leafless or with 1—2 reduced ls. Ls 
thin, the rad. oblong-spathulate, subobtuse at the top, 
with a long narrowed cuneiform base, the edges almost 
entire; but varied: b. Halleri Vill. Ls oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, coarsely sinuate-dentate, more distinctly petioled; 
stem often taller, with 2—3 Is and 2—3 heads.—Further 
varied: Fis often tubular; invol. closed (v. tubulosum). 
Species distinguished by its spathulate ls, covered with 
glandular hairs, and by its ligules with long ciliae! 
—High Alp. 6, 7 . . . . alpinum L. 1393. 
— Styles of a blackish brown. Invol. ls finely acuminate, 
the outer appressed. Stem slightly arched, covered below 
with more numerous stellate hairs than in H. alpinum 
Halleri. Rad. ls with long narrowed base, inciso-dentate 
or almost pinnatifid. Terminal head often exceeded by 
the arched-ascending peduncle of *the lateral, lower 
head! H. fuliginosum Rchb. /. not Lrnst.—High Alp., 
rare; G.! W.! Y. 0. 7 . . . rhaeticum Fr. 1394. 
Section 7. Atrata. 
50. Stem leafless or with 1 leaf. Invol. ls acuminate. Habit 
of H. murorum, but ls (always?) with a few scattered 
glands, the rad. narrowed at the base. Stem bearing 
2—5 heads on straight, almost erect, branches; invol. 
swollen, black. H. nigrescens Lagg. ex.! not Willd. 
—Alp., rare; G. W. U. 8 . . atratum Fr. 1395. 
— Stem bearing 3—5 ls; rad. ls not numerous or partly 
withered. Invol. ls gen. obtuse. Habit of an H. vulgatum 
rather low and with large heads. Ls soft, rather shining, 
sinuate-dentate, with long hairs which are often thickened 
at the base. H. hispidum Fr. not Forsk.—Alp., rare; 
G.! W.! 8 . . • • Bocconei Grisb. 1396. 
Section 8. Subprenanthuidea. 
51 (30). Stem hollow, flexible, 20—30 cm high, bearing 2—31s 
and 2—6 heads. Peduncles and invols grayish white on 
account of the numerous stellate hairs, accompanied 
by simple grayish and rare glandiferous hairs. Branches, 
when existing, arched-ascending, almost as in H. mu¬ 
rorum. Rad. Is several, oval or elliptic, insensibly nar¬ 
rowed to the petiole, with entire or faintly toothed edges. 
