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CREPIS MACRORHIZA. LARGE-ROOTED 
Hawk’s Bearp. 
SEK KEE KEK EEE EKEEEE 
Class and Order. 
SyneenesiA Poryeamia AL QuALis. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. Div. Cicnoracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Involucrum polyphyllum, squamis ad basin laxis. Re- 
ceptaculum nudum. Pappus sessilis, simplex. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Crepis* macrorhiza; glaberrima, caulibus solidis foliatis 
oblongis dentatis sessilibus (inferioribus in petiolum 
attenuatis) nitidis subearnoso - coriaceis, pedunculis 
superne subincrassatis squamosis, involucro subfari- 
noso-pubescenti, radice crassa. Lowe MSS. 
= Crepis macrorhiza. Herb. Banks. 
ous, small, bright yellow, closing soon after the plant is 
gathered, forming a loosely branched, lea icle: their 
peduncles clothed with permanent, linear, red scales, 
similar 
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ici, 
SS 
vn, 72s, in Greek, signifies a slipper or last ; but why it should be ap- 
‘piled to this plant we are not informed. 
