386 COMPOSITA. [Crepis. 
24. CREPIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial branched or rarely scapigerous herbs, 
juice milky. Leaves radical or alternate, entire or toothed or pin- 
natifid. Heads peduncled, solitary or panicled or corymbose, yellow 
or red, homogamous. Involucre campanulate or cylindric; bracts 
many, linear, equal, with a few smaller ones at their base. Recep- 
tacle flat or slightly concave, naked or fimbrillate. Florets all ligu- 
late. Achenes linear-oblong, 10-20-ribbed, narrowed or beaked at 
the tip. Pappus short or long, usually copious ; hairs soft, white, 
simple. 
A large genus, containing about 130 species, most abundant in the tem- 
perate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, but extending also into subtropical 
districts. The single New Zealand species is a somewhat anomalous member 
of the genus ; it was referred to Hieracitwm by Banks and Solander, to Crepis by 
Hooker, and to Sonchus in the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum.”’ 
1. C. novee-zealandiz, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 164.—A 
small scapigerous herb 2-8 in. high, either glabrous or the invo- 
lucres and scapes, rarely the leaves, white and tomentose; root 
stout, fleshy. Leaves all radical, spreading, crowded, glaucous, 
2-6in. long, narrow linear-oblong or linear-obovate, deeply and 
unequally lobed or pinnatifid, the terminal segment large, rounded, 
lateral much smaller, entire or toothed. Scape slender, longer than 
the leaves, glabrous or tomentose, often studded with black glan- 
dular hairs. Head solitary, 4-1 in. diam. ; involucral bracts broad- 
est at the base, gradually narrowed into obtuse black tips, glabrous 
or cottony and sparsely covered with black glandular hairs. Achene 
linear-oblong, glabrous, compressed, ribbed. Pappus-hairs copious, 
very soft, white.—Lindsay, Contr. N.Z. Bot. 54,t.3; Kirk, Stu- 
dents’ Fl. 359. 
SourH Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts on the east side of 
the island. Sea-level to 3000 ft. January—February. 
25. TARAXACUM, Linn. 
Scapigerous perennial herbs with milky juice. Leaves all. 
radical, entire or sinuate- or runcinate-pinnatifid. Heads solitary on: 
leafless scapes, yellow, homogamous. Involucre campanulate or 
oblong ; bracts herbaceous; inner in 1 series, equal, erect; outer 
in several series, smaller, often recurved. Receptacle flat, naked. 
Florets all ligulate. Anthers sagittate at the base, not tailed. 
Achenes oblong or fusiform, terete or angled or compressed, 
ribbed, muricate, attenuate at the base, above narrowed into a 
long and slender beak. Pappus-hairs copious, in many series, 
simple, white. 
A small genus, widely spread in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
The New Zealand species has the range of the genus. 
