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HIERACIUM Lapeyrousii.
Lapeyrousian Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-tsqualis.
Gen. Char. Heads many-flowered. Involucre imbricated,
with many oblong; scales. Receptacle
nearly naked. Florets all ligulate, perfect. Fruit
terete, angular, furrowed, truncate above, not
beaked, with a very short crenulated margin.
Pappus pilose, rigid, brittle, scabrous.
Spec. Char. Stem clothed with hairs, leafy. Radical
leaves oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, persistent
; petioles winged, shaggy. Stem-leaves
sessile, clasping, ovate, taper-pointed, all with
small teeth or nearly entire, hairy beneath. Corymbose
heads and upper part of the stem glandular
hairy. ,
Svn. Hieracium Lapeyrousii. Froel. in DeCand.
Prod. v. 7. 232 ? Bab. Man. Br. Bot. 184.
S tem usually simple, 1-2 feet high, rymb of few large heads, clothed with lontge rscmaibnraotuins go rin s hao rctoly
foeuatt,h tehree dl ahttaeirr si nicnrteearmsinixge idn wquitahn tsitteyl luaptew aprudbse, sacnedn cien tchormopuagnhy
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downwards to a clasping rather enlarged base, only