616 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Zolpis 
C. suceulenta Ait., le. Hieraciwm fruticosum Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 
1591 (1800). 7’. filiformis DC. Prodr. vii. p. 87 (1838). 7’. succu- 
lentw Lowe, Fl. Mad. i, p. 525 (1868). 
Var. multifida (Lowe, /.c., p. 527). 
IsLAND OF MaADEIRA.—A somewhat shrubby herb, 6 to 18 in. high, 
with pretty yellow flowers. In stony places between Funchal and 
Camara dos Lobos, plentiful ; fl. and fr. August 1853. No. 3624. 
78. CREPIS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen Pl. ii. p. 513. 
1. C. bumbensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A perennial herb, about a foot high or a little more; root sub- 
napiform, 2 in. thick; leaves all radical or nearly so, forming a 
rosette, oblanceolate, not lobed, denticulate-repand, usually 
rounded and minutely mucronulate at the apex, wedge-shaped 
towards the sessile or scarcely petiolate somewhat dilated or 
clasping base, thinly herbaceous, green and minutely or obsoletely 
glandular-scaly on both faces, scattered beneath with some broad- 
based simple short inconspicuous hairs, 2 to 24 in. long by 2 to 2 in. 
broad ; stems several, scapiform, loosely and dichotomously divided 
about thrice from near the base upwards, bracteate, rather slender, 
shining, nearly glabrous, erect or ascending ; the ultimate branches 
pedunculiform, | to 54 in. long and puberulous about the apex ; 
bracts small, from a clasping or sessile base, narrow or subulate, 
the upper ones smaller; capitula many-flowered, campanulate in 
flower, rather oblong in fruit, + to } in. broad; singly termi- 
nating the branches of the scapelike stem, erect, calyculate; the 
seales of the calyculus about 7, unequal, subglabrous, almost 
continuous with the upper bracts and similar to them, half as 
long as the involucral scales or shorter; involucral scales uni- 
seriate, 12, narrowly lanceolate-linear, obtuse, hispid and marked 
with black glandular dots along the back, 3 in. long in flower, 
2 in. long and thickened about the base in fruit, somewhat 
concave by the inflection of the subscarious lateral margins ; 
flowers yellow ; achenes slender, slightly contracted towards the 
base, beaked at the apex, + in. long including the beak, glabrous, 
10-ribbed ; the ribs minutely serrulate; pappus whitish, % in. 
long, half exserted; receptacle at length naked punctulate and 
exposed by the reflection of the involucre, 
BumBo.—In the wooded meadows of Catumba, rather rare ; fil. and 
fr. Dec, 1859. No. 3667. 
This is nearly related to C. carbonaria Schultz Bip., but the in- 
florescence differs. 
2. C. ephemera Hiern, sp. n. 
A glabrous erect herb, 23 to 3 ft. high or more ; root about } in. 
thick, firmly fleshy, elongated, apparently perennial; stems 
solitary or two together, rigid, rather slender, sulcate, simple 
below, straight or somewhat sinuous, branched above at the 
inflorescence ; leaves mostly radical and rosulate, obovate, obtuse 
at the apex wedge-shaped at the sessile or subsessile almost 
clasping base, toothed or remotely denticulate, thinly herbaceous, 
