Crepis| LXXI. COMPOSITA, 617 
1} to 21 in. long by } to 1 in. broad; stem-leaves alternate, 
narrow, few, suberect; capitula campanulate in flower, hemi- 
spherical in fruit, calyculate, } to 2 in. long, about 56-flowered, 
on rather slender pedicels ranging up to 2+ in. long, arranged in 
a wide rather lax dichotomous terminal flat-topped terminal 
cyme ; bracts small, lanceolate or subulate ; scales of the calyculus 
small, about 10, resembling the uppermost bracteoles ; involucral 
scales about 20, subequal, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 
uniseriate with sometimes an extra interior one, inserted together 
round the base of the receptacle, + to $ in. long, rather thickened 
at the base, with scarious margins, reflected in fruit; flowers 
yellow; receptacle somewhat foveolate with the edges of the 
depressions toothed, without conspicuous scales, somewhat convex 
in fruit; corollas about + in. long, slender, glandular-hairy about 
the lower part; achenes narrowly oblong, somewhat angular, 
glabrous, ribbed, reddish-brown, minutely muriculate, a little 
narrowed at the base, slightly contracted towards the truncate 
apex, 1, in. long ; pappus pauciseriate, slightly straw-coloured, $ in. 
long, setose ; the setee minutely scabrid. 
Hvitia.—In bushy pastures from Ferrao da Sola in the direction of 
Nene; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3665. In the pastures of Lopollo 
amongst low bushes, ephemeral ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3666. 
3. C. cichoriodes Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, hispidulous, robust herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the 
habit of a Cichoriwm ; root rather thick, apparently biennial or 
perennial ; stem solitary, simple up to the inflorescence, straight, 
suleate-striate, pallid and leafy at the base and on the lower 
part, dichotomously branched and leafless at the upper part; 
leaves alternate, mostly lyrate-pinnatifid, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, rounded and apiculate at the apex, narrowed towards the 
clasping often petiole-like base, thinly herbaceous, grey-green at 
least beneath, scattered with short hispidulous hairs on the midrib 
and veins, minutely aculeate-denticulate on the margin, 3 to 6 in. 
long by ? to 2} in. broad, the lobes obtuse, the upper leaves not 
lobed; capitula cylindrical, 9 or 10-flowered, homogamous, 
homocarpous, # in. long, on unequal pedicels ranging up to 
# in. long, arranged in a rather open corymbose terminal 
cyme about 6 in. in diameter; involucral bracts imbricate, 
pauciseriate, lanceolate or oblong, rather thin, obtuse, the 
outer ones hispidulous along the middle of the back, the inner 
ones about 12, thinner and longer, about } to 2 in. long; flowers 
all ligulate, the ligules whitish or slightly purplish, 5-toothed 
at the tip; receptacle foveolate ; achenes } in. long, ellipsoidal 
or ovoid-oblong, reddish brown, deeply sulcate, ribbed, angular, 
almost alate, microscopically muriculate, narrowed at the apex 
into a slender beak about half as long as itself; pappus pilose, 
+ to $ in. long, very soft, copious; the sete pauciseriate, very 
slender, whitish, only microscopically barbellate. 
Hvi~ita.—In meadows between Lopollo and the lake of Ivantala, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. 4 Jan. 1860. No. 3653. 
