COMPOSITE. 163 



Sub-Genus III.— AEACIUM. 3Ionn. 



Aclienes not beaked, cylindrical, scarcely attenuated towards 

 the apex. Pappus of stiff brittle yellowish-white hairs. 



SPECIES YII— C REPIS PALUDOSA. Mdnch. 



Plate DCCCXXI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ, Exsicc. No. 411. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLXIII. 



Hieracium paludosum, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1094. 

 Soyeria paludosa, Qr. &, Godr. Fl. de Fr. Yol. II. p. 342. 



Perennial. Stem rather slender, branched only above, glabrous, 

 leafy. Lower leaves elliptical or oval, oblanceolate, attenuated 

 into a short winged petiole ; middle stem-leaves panduriform, 

 oval- or elliptical - acuminate, am^olexicaul ; upper leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate - acuminate, amplexicaul, with blunt abruptly acumi- 

 nated auricles ; all glabrous, dentate or runcinate-dentate. An- 

 thodes few, in a corymb terminating the stem. Peduncles 

 moderately long, nearly straight, not thickened upwards. Phyl- 

 laries woolly, with numerous black gland - tipped hairs ; the 

 exterior ones very short, adpressed. Achenes not beaked, cylin- 

 drical, not attenuated either towards the base or apex, 10-ribbed. 

 Pappus of yellowish- white stiff fragile hairs, slightly exceeding the 

 phyllaries. 



In damp shady places and woods, and by the sides of streams. 

 Not uncommon in mountainous districts. Prom Glamorganshire, 

 Shropshire, Leicestershire, and Yorkshire, northward to Ross and 

 Aberdeen. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



Stem erect, striate, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves variable in the 

 depth of the dentition ; the lower ones generally with the teeth 

 most prominent ; the upper ones usually entire, except at the base ; 

 all except the lowest amplexicaul. Phyllaries black from the 

 abundance of gland-tipped hairs. Plorets yellow. Aclienes olive, 

 perfectly cylindrical (in all the specimens I have examined). Plant 

 glabrous. 



A very puzzling plant, agreeing in habit with Crepis, in which 

 it is generally placed by modern authors, but differing in its achenes 

 not being attenuated towards the apex, and the pappus being 

 yellowish-white, and composed of brittle hairs, in which points it 

 approaches Hieracium, in which genus it was placed by Linnseus. It 



