394 LXXVII, cowrosmz. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Crepis. 
straight, many-ribbed, red-brown, beak very slender as long as the body; pappus 
4 in., dirty-white. 
Sect. II. Soyeria. Perennials. Heads large, broad, usually hirsute ; 
invol. bracts imbricating, all long or outer broad or narrow, gradually passing 
into the inner, Achenes long, narrowed gradually upwards or to both ends: 
pappus soft, white. 
2. C. sibirica, Linn.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii, 828; stout, erect, more or less 
hispid, radical and lower leaves oblanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed or 
lyrate-pinnatifid, lobes rounded denticulate, cauline cordate 4-amplexicaul, 
heads 1 in. diam. few subcorymbose peduncled, invol. bracts obtuse ciliate and 
pubescent, outer broadly ovate, inner linear, achenes } in. slender ribbed smooth 
gradually narrowed upwards, pappus short. DC. Prodr. vii. 167; Reichb. Ic. 
FI. Germ. t. 1458. Clarke Comp Ind. 952. Hieracium sibiricum, Gmel. 
Soyeria sibirica, Monnier Hieracium, 177. 
Western HmMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, Falconer, &c., alt. 6-10,000.-— 
Distris. Siberia, S. Europe to Austria. 
Root fusiform, very stout. Stem 6-18 in., simple or sparingly branched, Leaves 
6-12 in., lowest petioled, scaberulous or glabrate above. Achenes pale brown, quite 
smooth; pappus ł in., rather scanty, hairs singly deeiduous.—I have not quoted 
Boissier who (iii. 833) describes the achenes as 20-30-ribbed, the ribs transversely 
rugulose and scaberulous. 
3. C. blattarioides, Vill.; DC. Prodr. vii. 167; hispid, villous and 
glandular above, stem simple subcorymbosely branched above, leaves entire or 
sinuate-toothed radical obovate-oblong petioled, cauline few large sessile, heads 
l in. diam. few erect, peduncles long strict naked, invol. bracts 2-3-seriate all 
long lanceolate acute villous, achenes } in. slender narrowed at both ends ribbed 
smooth longer than the white shining pappus. Retchb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1461. 
C. austriaca, Jacg. FI. Aust. v. t. 441, Hieracium blattarioides, Zinn. Soyeria 
blattarioides, Monnier Tarax. 76. 
Kasuwrn ; Sonamurg, alt. 11,500 ft., Clarke.—Disrrim. Mid. & West Europe. 
Stem 1-9 ft., rather stout. Leaves, radical, 2-4 by 1-2 in., cauline as broad or 
broader. Heads 4-8, rarely more; peduncle swollen at the base; invol. bracts 
20-30, $ in. long, blackish when dry, acuminate, with rarely a slender shorter basal 
one. Achenes red-brown, outer curved, ribs strong; pappus } in. long, rather 
persistent. 
Secr. HII Youngia. Meads small, narrow; outer invol. bracts very 
short, inner linear l-seriate. Achenes small, narrowed at both ends, slightly 
flattened, ribbed, hardly beaked ; pappus soft white or grey. 
* Stems or flowering branches much dichotomously branched, slender, virgate. 
4. C. glauca, Benth, in Gen. Pl. ii. 515; annual, quite glabrous, stems 
very numerous from the root dichotomously divaricatingly excessively branched, 
radical leaves long-petioled obovate-spathulate sinuate-toothed pinnatifid or 
pinnate, lobes pins acutely cut, cauline sessile linear entire, heads 4-4 in. 
narrow, outer invol. bracts minute inner 6-8 linear glabrous, achenes very 
slender ribbed to the tip longer than the white pappus. C. flexuosa, Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 254 (not of Ledeb.), Barkhausia flexuosa, DC, Prodr. vii. 155. 
Youngia glauca, Edgew. in Trans, Linn, Soc. xx. 79. 
Western Ter, and the Tibetan regions of Lahul and Kumaon, alt. 8-17,000 ft., 
Falconer, &c. 
A most densely corymbosely branched herb, forming an obeonieal mass 6-12 in. 
high, and as broad at the truncate top, of forking spreading rigid slender branches 
