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678 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Pieris. 
smaller outer ones, usually spreading. Receptacle without scales. pay 
all ligulate. Achenes transversely striate or muricate, not at all or very 
shortly beaked. Pappus of whitish fine bristles, of which. the inner ones at 
least are plumose.—Coarse hispid annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed. Flower- 
heads in a loose ir es corymb. Florets yellow 
A genus containing but few species, natives- of t the t perite and subtropical regions of 
= northern hemisphere in the Old World, one of which i is also the Australian one, and is 
found as an reg plant in other parts of the world. 
1. P. hieracioides, Linn.; DC. Prod. vii. 128. A biennial from 1 to 
.9 or 3 ft. high, covered with short rough hairs, most of which are winutely 
hooked so as to cling to whatever they c come in contact with, but rather less 
so in some of the Australian than in the northern specimens. Leaves lanceo- 
late or, especially in Australian specimens, linear, the lower ones tapering into 
a petiole, and often 6 in. long or more, the upper ones few small. Pe- 
duneles rather long and stiff, “the upper ones sometimes eeu ly umbellate. 
Involueres from ander À 2 in. to nearly $ in. long. Alien es very strongly 
transversely striate or muricate, usually contracted under the pappus or taper- 
ing into a very short beak. Pappus- bristles usually very plumose, SH a 
few of the outer ones of each achene.—Hook. f. Fl. Ta i. 227 ; P. angus- 
tifolia, DC. Prod. vii. 130 ; Sond. in Linnæa, xxv. 529; P attenuata, A. 
Cunn. in, Ann. Nat. ‘Hist. i ii. 125; P. ba pre Lindl: in Mitch. Three 
Exped. ii. 149, and in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 58; P. mabe Lindl. in 
Bot. Reg. 1888, Misc. 58; P. hamulosa, Wall.; Då. Prod. vii 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Moreton Island, M'Gillivray ; WE 
ton, pais e 
N. S. es. Port Jack R. Brown, Woolls ; Macleay, Clarence, and Hastings 
Sen Bechler: New England, c. Stuart; north of Bathurst, A, Cunningham ; Lachlan and 
lin r ers, Victorian n Expedi ; 
leiti About Meus; pom ; Wimmera, Dallachy. 
^ Dro d Port Dalrymple, R. Brews common in the northern parts of the island, 
er 
tralia. Port Lincoln, R. iem DH. mu river to St. Vincent's 
Gut. P Mate and Shen; Kangaro Island, d 
Ww. WS Drudincnd e ‘Colt. “also 4th Coll, n. 216; Capel and 
Blackwood rivers, Oldfield. 
Var. squarrosa. More hispid, with larger flower-heads and more numerous recurved 
SCH Kerg: bi . squarrosa, Steetz in Pl. Preiss i. 488; Sond. in Linnea, XXY- 
Ges, ort Phillip, Dis; S. Australia, F. Mueller and Se Ze various parts 0 of W. 
h i23 y ds Maxwell. 
e species ^ Bed common in the northern hemisphere in the Old World, anl has - 
t may ther 
= Foals Merten localities. In others however there is every probability of its being Dë 
93. CREPIS, Linn. 
(Youngia, DC.) 
Involucre of a single row of nearly DS bracts, with a few small outer 
ones. Receptacle without scales. Florets all ligulate. Achenes oblong; 
cylindrical or scarcely dattetied, striate, ies at the top, but without a dis- 
