448 Lxxrii. COMPOSITE (otjver and hiern). [Pier is. 



1. P. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Flora xxii. p. 20 (1839). Root- 

 stock somewhat thickened. Stems nearly naked, 3-12 in. long, simple 

 or sparingly branched, more or less hispid, at apex somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Radical or snbradical leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed 

 towards base into a short petiole, distantly toothed, hispid on both sides, 

 11_(5 in. long ; stem-leaves few, mostly linear, smaller. Capitnla 

 1^1 in. long in flower, ^ in. long in fruit, on long peduncles or pedicels, 

 solitary or in a very lax paniculate cyme. Involucral bracts pubera- 

 lous and along the mid-line of the back hispid ; the outermost short. 

 Achenes J-i in. long, striate-costate longitudinally, obscurely ridged 

 transversely, not tapering at the apex into a beak. Pappus about ^ in. 

 lontr, alike on all the achenes. — Schultz Bip. in Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 

 58 T'a. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 460. 



"Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimpcr f 



Al»yssinian name " Zeediet " or " Zatett." 



111. CREPIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 513. 



Capitula homogamous ; florets all ligulate. Involucre campanulate 

 or at first tubular-campanulate ; inner bracts 1-seriate subequal more 

 or less setulose or carinate on the back ; outer bracts shorter lax. 

 Receptacle naked or shortly fimbrilliferous. Achenes subterete or ob- 

 tusely angular, costate, narrowed above into a beak; pappus finely 

 setose, copious, simple. — Herbs with radical or alternate often amplexi- 

 caul c'auline leaves and solitary or variously cymose capitula. 

 A considerable genus, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. 

 Inner involucral bracts after flowering with a thickened 

 keel at the base. 

 Inner involucral bracts about 13. Pappus somewhat 

 sordid. 



Perennial. /-rot? •• 



Sterna tall, rigid, scabrid. leafy 1. C. Sckultzii. 



Stems .slender, weak, hispidulous, with few leaves. 



Eadical leaves petiolate 2. C. carbonaria. 



Radical leaves attenuate to the sessile base . . 3. C. Ncwii. 



Annual , • ' ^- S ^^"''P'r!: 



Inner involucral bracts 8. Pappus white or nearly so . 5. C. Rucppelhi. 

 Inner involucral bracts unchanged after flowering. 



inner involucral bracts 13; midrib pale %. C.achyrophoroid^s. 



Inner involucral bracts 8 ; midrib black 1- C. Hookeriana. 



Crcpis nivalis, Schultz Eip. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enura. p. 284, name only, 

 from Abyssinia, and Brachyderaa x-ylorrhiza, Schultz Bip. I. c, p. 283, name only, also 

 from Abyssinia, are unknown to us. 



1. C. SchvltxiUlIochst. in Herh.Schimp. ii. n-. 861. Erect sca- 

 brous herb, 3-4 ft. high, often branched at the base. Stems simple 

 below, angular, hispid-scabrous. Leaves oval-oblong or the upper ones 

 lanceolate" obtuse or subacute, mucronate, denticulate, hispidulous, 

 ranging up to 12 by 2 in. ; the radical ones attenuate at the base, sub- 

 petiolate ; the* stem-leaves broad at the base, sessile, semi- amplexi caul. 



