392 FLORA HISTORICA. 



BEARDED CREPIS, or TURPLE-EYED 

 SUCCORY-HAWKWEED. Crejns Barbata. 



Natural Order Compositce Semijiosculosce. Chichoracece^ 

 Juss. A Genus of the Syngenesia Po!yga?7iia ^qua- 

 Us Class. 



This annual plant, whose flowers so familiarly 

 spangle our parterres with their purple eyes and 

 yellow petals, from the month of July to the end 

 of autumn, grows spontaneously as a ^veed about 

 Montpelier in France, also in Spain, Italy, Sicily, 

 and other southern parts of Europe. 



It appears to have been first introduced to this 

 country by Mr. William Boel, in the year 1620; 

 and it is of so hardy a nature that the finest plants 

 are generally those which spring from self- scattered 

 seed, although the usual time of sowing the seed is 

 not before the spring. 



The generic name of this plant is thought to be 

 derived from Kpr,7rif, the Greek name for sandal, 

 and probably was so given it by the ancients on 

 account of the linear leaves which surround the 

 flower-bud, like the tliongs of a sandal. 



We liave given it the specific title of Bearded- 



