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height, single or 2 or 3 together at the end of a branch, on short pedicels. 
Involucre, corollas and pappus each 12” long. Achenes cuneiform, 
4-—5"" Jong. 
W. Maui! about 1200 ft. above Lahaina. Collected by the late Mr. E. Bishop. 
TrIBE X. CICHORIEAE. 
Heads homogamous, the florets all hermaphrodite and ligulate, the 
ligules 5-toothed. Style- pape filiform. Leaves alternate. Herbs, 
rarely trees, with milky juic 
28. CREPIS, L. 
Involucre a single row of nearly equal bracts with a few small outer 
ones. Receptacle naked. Achenes oblong cylindrical or scarcely flattened, 
striate, Reacts at the top, sometimes beaked, Pappus of copious soft 
white simple hairs 
A large meas widely a stributed dain S temperate regions of the northern hemi- 
sphere, with a very few jatsenicdon 1 speci 
7 1. C. Japonica, Benth. Fi. —— p. 194. An erect slender 
annual, '/2—2 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves mostly sik petiolate, varying 
from obovate nearly entire and 1—2‘ long to lyrate or ra and 
2—4' long with a large terminal toothed lobe. Heads numerou 
short corymbose ee panicle, sometimes almost umbellate. ices 
about 21/2, with 8 keeled bracts, holding 10—22 small yellow florets. 
Achenes hispid, ae Pappus twice as Toe soft white. — Prenanthes 
L. — You “— Japonica, DC. Prod. VII, 194 
Oahu! in woods here there, Kailua, along the foot of the high pali. A common 
Indian weed which rete from Ceylon and Mauritius to China and Japan. 
29. SONCHUS, L. 
Involucre with imbricate bracts and usually becoming conical after 
flowering. Receptacle naked. Achenes flattened and striate, not beaked, 
with a white pappus of soft and fine s 
A considerable genus, ranging over the de regions a the northern acidiliaials 
Tl. S. oleraceus, Z. — An erect annual, 1—3 ft. high. Leaves thin, 
bordered with irregular pointed or prickly teeth, otherwise either undivided 
or pinnatifid with a broad heart-shaped or triangular terminal pics the 
upper leaves narrow and clasping the stem with short pointed a 
Heads in a short corymbose panicle, sometimes almost umbellate. Tine 
pale yellow. Achenes transversely rugose 
A common weed, the <Puniele> of the natives, caters: from 88 a plains to the 
prob bly in Europe and ne w found over 
