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2. C RE PIS BAR BAT A. 



YELLOW HAWK WE ED. 



THIS genus comprises plants of the herbaceous ornamental an- 

 nual kind. Bastard Hawk-weed. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia Polygamia JEqualis, 

 and ranks in the natural order of Composite Semiflosculosce. 



The characters are: that the calyx is common double: exterior, 

 very short, spreading, deciduous: interior ovate, simple, furrowed, 

 permanent: scales linear, converging: the corolla is compound im- 

 bricate, uniform: corollets hermaphrodite, very many, equal: proper 

 one-petalled ; ligulate, linear, truncate, five-toothed : the stamina 

 consist of five capillary filaments, very short: anther cylindric, tubu- 

 lar: the pistillum a somewhat ovate germ: style filiform, length of 

 the stamens: stigmas two, reflex: there is no perica'rpium: calyx 

 roundish: the seed solitary, oblong, fusiform, sometimes columnar: 

 down hairy, generally stipitalc: the receptacle naked, with cells or 

 pits. 



The species cultivated are: 1. C. barbata, Spanish bearded Cre- 

 pis, or Purple-eyed Succory Hawk-weed; 2. C. rubra, Purple 

 Crepis. 



The first is an annual plant, putting out leaves next the root, 

 nine inches in length, and almost two broad in the middle, of a light 

 green colour: the stems are a foot and half high, dividing into many 

 branches, having leaves of the same form with the others, but smaller 

 and sessile: the flowers are produced at the ends of the branches, 

 and of a yellow colour, with a purplish base. It flowers in June;, 

 and is a native of the South of Europe. 



There are varieties, with deep yellow flowers, and with sulphur- 

 coloured flowers inclining to white, each having a dark purple 

 base. 



