434 FLORA HISTORICA. 



BEARDED CREPIS or PURPLE-EYED 

 SUCCORY-HAWKWEED. Crepis Barbata, 



Natural Order Composites Semiflosculosce, Chichoracece, 

 Juss : a Genus of the Syngenesia Polygamia Mqua- 

 lis 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 weed about 

 Montpelier, in France, also in Spain, Italy, Si- 

 cily, 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 Kpw^s, the Greek name for san- 

 dal, and probably was so given it by the an- 

 cients on account of the linear leaves which sur- 

 round the flower-bud like the thongs of a sandal. 



We have given it the specific title of Bearded- 



