25S 
Composite. 
52(81). Invols slight, invol. Is not numerous, not imbri¬ 
cate. Ls more or less fiddle-shaped, gen. entire, 
with a net-work (often close) of veins underneath. 
Achenes pale brownish yellow or light red-brown 53 
— Invols rather thicker, invol. Is slightly imbricate (but 
less so than in the Sabauda). Ls not, or indistinctly 
fiddle-shaped. Comp, also H. valdepilosum . . 5(i 
Section 9. Etiprenanthoidea. 
53. Peduncles only with scattered and unequal glands, but 
with numerous very long non-glandiferous 
hairs. Invol. Is acute or acuminate, more rarely ob¬ 
tuse. Stem gen. bearing only few, fairly large, heads. 
Ls close set, the upper broad, oval. Achenes light 
grayish yellow, as in H. prenanthoides, or light red. 
Hairs long. Intermediate between H. villosum (or elonga- 
tum) and H. prenanthoides, and perhaps hybrid. Ls 
more net-veined than in H. elongatum, distinctly cordate- 
clasping, the lower ones rather fiddle-shaped, rad. ls 0. Li- 
gules ciliate. Achenes not blackish brown. H. virescens 
Schl.! —b. Wolfii Grml. (H. cydonifolium Arv.-Touv. ? 
an Yill. ? nec Fr.). PI. 20 cm high; ls narrow; heads 
small; invol. Is obtuse.—Alp. and subalp., rare; G.! W.! 
Y.! B.! O.; b. St. Bernard. 7, earlier than H. prenan¬ 
thoides . valdepilosum Vill. 1400. 
— Peduncles with abundant, and gen. short, glandiferous 
hairs, often without, or with only scattered, simple hairs. 
Invol. ls obtuse. Type of II. prenanthoides . . 54: 
54. Ls rather firm, often less glaucous and less net-veined 
underneath than in H. prenanthoides, fairly regular in 
form, narrow, crowded, hardly fiddle-shaped. Heads 
not numerous, often rather larger ond on stronger, less 
spreading, peduncles. Invol. often rather blackish after 
being dried. H. cydonifolium Rchb. /. Icon. t. 155., 
cotoneifolium Frol. Heg. not Lam.*?—Alp., rare; Wall., 
Yaud, Freibg. (Eginenthal! Crans sur Lens! Simplon! 
St: Bernard! Mont Chaude! Bovonnaz), Graub. (Briigg.). 8 
strictum Fr. 1401.*) 
— Ls thin, glaucous underneath and with a small meshed 
net-work of veins, distinctly fiddle-shaped. Invol. slender**) 
55 
55. llipe achenes of a pale grayish yellow, rarely light 
reddish-brown. Heads fairly small, numerous on large 
*) H.lanceolatum (boreale-prenanthoides) Arv.-Touv.! which, accord¬ 
ing to the author, grows in Switzerland, might, judging by the Is and the 
pale achenes, be an hybrid form of H. prenanthoides. 
**) H. praeruptorum Godr. (prenanthoides-vogesiacum Gr. G. Rchb. f.) 
lias Is not fiddle-shaped, coarsely inciso-dentate. See N. Beitr. Ill, 19. 
