Crepis.| LXII. COMPOSITA. 679 
tinct beak. Pappus of numerous fine white soft simple bristles.—Annual or 
perennial herbs, usually branched. Leaves alternate or radical, mostly toothed 
or lobed. Flower-heads in loose irregular corymbs or panicles. Florets 
yellow. 
A large genus, widely distributed over the temperate regions of the northern hemi- 
sphere, Men a few subtropical species, the only Australian one extending into tropical and 
stern Asia. ; 
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l. C. japonica, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 194. An erect slender annual, 6 
in. to near 1 ft. high, glabrous or slightly pubescent or hairy near the base. 
Leaves mostly radical, petiolate, varying from obovate, nearly entire and 1 to 
j to lyrate or pinnatifid, 2 to 4 in. long, with a large terminal toothed 
lobe. Stem-leaves few or in the Australian specimens usually none. Panicle 
slender, loosely corymbose. Flower-heads small, numerous.  Involucres 
about 21 lines long, containing 10 to 15 small yellow florets.— Prenanthes 
japonica, Linn.; Youngia japonica, DC. Prod. vii. 194, also F. Thunbergiana, 
and some others of DC. See A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad. vi. 396. 
Queensland. oalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Dawson river, F. Mueller ; Dunk Island, 
M'Gillivray ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy. 
N. S. Wales. Hunters and Grose rivers, R. Brown ; Macleay and Hastings rivers, 
Beckler. : 
The species is common in India, and extends on the one hand to Ceylon and the Mauri- 
tius, and on the other to China and Japan. H 
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" 94, SONCHUS, Linn. 
Involucre ovoid, with imbricate bracts, and usually becoming conical after 
flowering. Receptacle without scales. Florets all ligulate. Achenes flattened 
Leaves alternate, usually toothed or lobed. Flower-heads small or large in 
loose corymbs or panicles. Florets yellow or (in species sometimes separated 
A considerable genus, ranging over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, the 
Australian species extending over the whole range of the genus, and introduced into almost 
every part of the world. s 
l. S. oleraceus, Linn. Spec. 1116. An erect annual, with a hollow 
stem, 1 to 3 or even 4 ft. high. Leaves thin, bordered by irregular acute or 
i.489; S. asper, Fuchs; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 227; Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 
489 ; S. ciliatus, Lam., and 5. fallax, Wallr., DC. Prod. vii. 185. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls; Hastings and Clarence rivers, 
Beckler. : 
Meester T ng ver Brown ; common, but only near the sea and on the 
north shore of the island, J. D. Hooker. 
