SYNGENESIA-POLYGAM.-^QU. Crepis. 373 



cept the calyx, which is more or less downy, and glanduhir. Root 

 tapering, milky like the rest of the plant. Stem from 1 to 2 feet 

 high, leafy, upright, branched, furrowed, sometimes slightly 

 hairy, always stained with pur[)le near the ramifications. Leaves 

 smooth, variously runcinate, or jagged, the upper ones dilated 

 and clasping at the base, where also they are most toothed. 

 Panicle slender, lax, corymbose, roughish, with awl-shaped 

 hracteas. FL bright yellow, much smaller than those of any 

 other common plant of this tribe, except Lapsana. Outer, as 

 well as inner, calyx glandular, and rough ; the former of several 

 membranous, withering, but scarcely deciduous, scales ; the 

 atter not much altered after flowering. Seeds furrowed. Down 

 rough, sessile like the last. Recept. with shallow rough-edged 

 cells. 



4. C. bioinis. Rough Hawk's-beard. 

 Leaves pinnatifid, runcinate, rough ; their lobes toothed in 

 front. Calyx somewhat bristly and downy. 



C. biennis. Linn. Sp. PL 1 13G. frdld. v. 3. 1603. FL Br. S3S. 



EngLBot.v.?>.t. 149. 

 C. n. 30. IlalLHist v.\.]3. Davall. 

 Hedypnois biennis. LIuds. 342. 

 Hieracium maximum, Chondrillse folio, asperum. Raii Syn. ir>6. 



Bank. Prodr. 64; according to his herbarium. Haller. 

 H. erucaefolium hirsutum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1025.^. 

 Tall Succory Hawkweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 12./. 10. 

 /3. Hieracium Cichorei folio minus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 165. 

 Small Succory Hawkweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 12./. 9. 



In chalky pastures. 



Plentiful' in several parts of Kent. Ray, Huds. Near Bury St. Ed- 

 mund's. Mr. Mathew. 



Biennial. June, July. 



Root spindle-sliaped. Stern 3 or 4 feet high, erect, stout, hollow, 

 leafy, corymbose, very strongly furrowed ; roughish above ; 

 purjjlish below. Radical leaves stalked, obovatc, unequally 

 toothed ; those about the lower part of the stem pinnatifid, or 

 runcinate, likewise on pur])lish stalks; uppermost sessile, clasp- 

 ing, more deeply pinnatifid, their lobes strongly toothed in 

 front, the terminal one large; all rough with bristly hairs, espe- 

 cially the mid-rib beneath. FL large, lemon-coloured, reddish 

 underneath, on furrowed stalks, with linear hracteas. Outer 

 calyx of lax, partly membranous, scales ; inner of longer and 

 more downy ones, often glandular and bristly, at first flat, but 

 subsequently ac(|iiiring a stout, or turgid, mid-rib, like every 

 true Crepis' .V<v/.v striated, crenate, beaked. 7)()/r;j roughisli, 

 sessile on the summit of the beak, so as to appear almost stalked 

 Ucccpt. with fringed cells. 



;3 is a very trifling variety, of somewliat liumbler growth. 



