2. C RE PIS BAR BAT A. 



YELLOW HAWKWEED. 



This genus comprises plants of the herbaceous ornamental an- 

 nual kinil. Bastard Hawk-weed. 



It belongs to the class and order Si/jigencsia Fohjgamia JEqualis, 

 and ranks in the natural order o( Compositce Sanijlosculosa'. 



The characters are: that the calyx is common double: exterior, 

 very short, spreading, deciduous: interior ovate, simple, furrowed, 

 permanent: scales linear, converging: the corolla is compound im- 

 bricate, uniform: corollels hermaphrodite, very many, equal: proper 

 one-petalled ; ligulate, linear, truncate, five-toothed : the stamina 

 consist of five capillary filaments, very short: anther cylindric, tubu- 

 lar: the pistillum a somewhat ovate germ: style filiform, length of 

 the stamens: stigmas two, reflex: there is no pericarpium: calyx 

 roundish: the seed solitary, oblong, fusiform, sometimes columnar: 

 down hairy, generally slipilate: the receptacle naked, with cells or 

 pits. 



The species cultivated are: 1. C. borbato, Spanish bearded Cre- 

 pis, or Purple-eyed Succory Ilawk-weed; 2. C. rubra. Purple 

 Crepis. . . • 



The first is an annual plant, ])utting out leaves next the root, 

 nine inches in length, and almost two broad in the middle, of a light 

 green colour: the stems are a foot and half high, dividing into many 

 branches, having leaves of the same form with the others, but smaller 

 and sessile: the flowers arc produced at the ends of the branches, 

 and of a yellow colour, Avith a purplish base. It flowers in June; 

 and is a native of the South of Europe. 



There are varieties, wilh deep yellow flowers, and with sulphur- 

 coloured flowers inclining to while, each having a dark purple 

 base. ■ 



