Picris.] LXXVII. comrosirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 393 
late. Involucre suburceolate or campanulate ; inner bracts 1-seriate, subequal ; 
outer co -seriate, herbaceous, narrow, or the outermost broad and foliaceous ; 
receptacle flat. -Anther-bascs sagittate, acute or shortly setaceous. Sfyle-arms 
slender. Achenes narrow, incurved, subterete compressed or angled, glabrous, 
5-10-ribbed, ribs transversely rugose, beak short or long, all similar or the 
outer with a shorter beak and no pappus; pappus copious, of 1 series of soft 
feathery hairs, or of fewer rigid hairs dilated at the base, with sometimes a few 
outer short hairs.—Disrrr, Species about 24, Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia and 
one cosmopolitan. 
P. hieracioides, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 734; tall, corymbosely 
branched, radical leaves sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate j-amplexicaul, pe- 
duneles not thickened in fruit, achenes narrowly ellipsoid shortly beaked com- 
pressed, all with feathery deciduous pappus. DC. Prodr, vài. 128; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 251. P. hieracioides, var. indica, Wight Ic. t. 1143. P. hamulosa, 
Wall. Cat. 8255; DC. l.c. 129. P. strigosa, Wall. Cat. 8256. 
Temperate HixArAYA; from Murree to Bhotan, alt. 6-8000 ft., ascending to 
10,000 ft. in Sikkim, Kuasta Mrs. ; alt, 4-6000 ft. Nitcuerry Mrs, ; alt. 5-8000 
ft.—Duistris. N. Asia to Japan, W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 
A coarse herb, 1-4 ft.; hairs straight or hooked. Leaves 2-5 in. Heads 3-5 in. 
long; invol. bracts glabrous or hispid. Achenes 2 in., narrowed at both ends, slightly 
curved, brown; pappus very white, } in. 
108. CREPIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial glabrous or hairy herbs, hairs never stellate. Leaves 
radical or alternate, cauline often stem-clasping, entire toothed or pinnatifid. 
Heads peduncled, solitary fascicled or corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous ; 
fl. all ligulate. — Zavolucre cylindric or campanulate; invol. bracts either 
œ -seriate and regularly imbricate, or the outer small or very much shorter than 
the linear l-seriate inner; base or midrib thickened after flowering or not; 
receptacle flat, rarely concave, naked or shortly fimbrillate. .4cAenes more or 
less fusiform or oblong, rarely short and cylindric, often slender, glabrous or 
scaberulous, 10-20-ribbed, tip narrowed or beaked; pappus short or long, 
usually copious, hairs usually silvery, simple and soft, rarely brownish and stiff 
or brittle.—Drsrrrp. Species 130, chiefly in N. temp. region of the old world, 
none in S. temperate. 
It is impossible to draw a line between this genus and Lactuca, Hieracium, Launea 
or even Prenanthes. As a rule the Indian species here included have terete or only 
slightly compressed achenes, narrowed from above the middle to the tip in all but the 
last section; and they are truly beaked in section Barkhausia alone. 
Stcrt. I. Barkhausia. Inner or all the achenes with long slender beaks ; 
pappus soft. 
1. C. foetida, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii, 851; hispid, lower leaves 
lyrate-pinnatifid or sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate base 3-amplexicaul, heads 
drooping in bud, invol. bracts hispid and glandular, outer hardened and keeled 
at the base, outer achenes shorter than the bracts acute, inner long-beaked 
scabrid striate. Clarke Comp. Ind. 252.. C. Kotschyana, Clarke l.c. not of 
Boissier. Barkhausia foetida, DC. Prodr. vii. 158. 
The Punsap and Western HiwALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, in fields, alt. 
6-8000 ft.—Disrriz. Westward to the Atlantic. 
Annual; branches suberect or spreading from the root, 6-18 in., stout, corymbosely 
branched. Leaves 2-6 in. Heads, flowering 3 in., fruiting 3 in, and as broad ; invol. 
bracts hispid. Outer achenes } in., curved, pale, dorsally thickened ; inner 3-3 in, ; 
