44.8 LXXIII. COMPOSITA (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Picris. 
l. P. abyssinica, Schuliz Bip. in Flora xxii. p. 20 (1839). Root- 
stock somewhat thickened. Stems nearly naked, 3—12 in. long, simple 
or sparingly branched, more or less hispid, at apex somewhat pubes- 
cent. Radical or subradical leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed 
towards base into a short petiole, distantly toothed, hispid on both sides, 
14-6 in. long; stem-leaves few, mostly linear, smaller. Capitula 
$-? in. long in flower, 4 in. long in fruit, on long peduncles or pedicels, 
solitary or in a very lax paniculate cyme, Involucral bracts puberu- 
lous and along the mid-line of the back hispid; the outermost short. 
Achenes }-} in. long, striate-costate longitudinally, obscurely ridged 
transversely, not tapering at the apex into a beak. Pappus about j im. 
long, alike on all the achenes.—Schultz Bip. in Mus. Senckenb. int. p. 
58; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 460. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Abyssinian name “ Zeediet ” or “ Zatett.” 
111. CREPIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 513. 
Capitula homogamous; florets all ligulate. Involucre campanulate 
or at first tubular-campanulate; inner bracts 1-seriate subequal more 
or less setulose or carinate on the back; outer bracts shorter lax. 
Receptacle naked or shortly fimbrilliferous. Achenes subterete or ob- 
tusely angular, costate, narrowed above into a beak; pappus finely 
setose, copious, simple.—Herbs with radical or alternate often amplext- 
caul vauline leaves and solitary or variously cymose capitula. 
A considerable genus, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. 
Inner involucral bracts after flowering with a thickened 
keel at the base. 
Inner involucral bracts about 138. Pappus somewhat 
sordid. 
Perennial. . 
Stems tall, rigid, seabrid, leafy. . 2. 2. 2... Le Schultzii. 
Stems slender, weak, hispidulous, with few leaves. . 
Radical leaves petiolate . . 2... . C. carbonaria. 
Radical leaves attenuate to the sessile base . C. Newitt. | 
Anomalies ee ee wk ew et C. Schimper. 
Inner involucral bracts 8. Pappus white or nearly so. 65. C. Rueppellii. 
Inner involucral bracts unchanged after flowering. 
Inner involucral bracts 13; midrib pale 
Inner involucral bracts 8; midrib black 
. C.achyrophoroides. 
. C. Hookeriana. 
NP ope 
Crepis nivalis, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 284, name only, 
from Abyssinia, and Brachyderea rylorrhiza, Schultz Bip. l.c., p. 283, name only, also 
from Abyssinia, are unknown to us. 
1. C. Schultzii, Hochst. in Herb.Schimp. ii. n. 861. Erect sca 
brous herb, 3-4 ft. high, often branehed at the base. Stems simple 
below, angular, hispid-scabrous. Leaves oval-oblong or the upper ore” 
lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, mucronate, denticulate, hispidulons, 
ranging up to 12 by 2 in.; the radical ones attenuate at the base, sub- 
petiolate ; the stem-leaves broad at the base, sessile, semi-amplexicaut 
