COMPOSITE. 157 



nearly straight, with projecting points, not scolloped into small 

 teeth, as in S. palustris. The anthodes are more numerous, 

 smaller, and the florets paler yellow. The phyllaries are narrower, 

 with shorter hairs tipped with olive glands, and consequently appear- 

 ing of a deeper green than those of S. arvensis. The achenes are 

 larger, paler in colour, less compressed, wdth the rihs unequal and 

 less rugose. 



Marsh Sow-thistle. 



FreBch, Laitron des Marais. German, Sumpf-Savdistel. 



GENVS XL—C R E P I S. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered. Pericline oblong or oblong-ovoid, 

 of numerous phyllaries regularly imbricated in several series, 

 or more frequently in 2 series, with the outer ones shorter. 

 Clinanth naked or fibrillous. Achenes cylindrical or prismatic, 

 with 10 to 30 ribs, narrowed tow^ards the apex, and sometimes 

 prolonged into a beak. Pappus of white (rarely dirty-white) 

 simple, often silky filiform hairs. 



Herbs of various habit, with commonly rather large anthodes 

 of yellow, orange, red, or pink flowers. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from Kpe-mg (Jcrepis), a shoe, the blossom 

 bearing some resemblance to the form of a slipper. 



SuB-GENrs I.— BAEKHAUSIA. Monch. 



Achenes (or at least those of the disk) attenuated into a 

 slender beak. Pappus of numerous soft, silky, pure white hairs. 



SPECIES L—C RE PIS FGETIDA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXY. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 810. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXIY. 



Barkhausia foetida, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 158. 



Borkhausia foetida, Rook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 215. 



Annual or biennial. Stem branched chiefly in the lower half 

 or from the base, sparingly leafy. Leaves runcinate- or lacerate- 

 pinnatifid. Anthodes drooping in bud, sub-solitary, corymbosely 

 arranged. Peduncles long, uncurved, slightly thickened upwards. 

 Phyllaries hairy, the inner ones at length indurated and folded 



