P/cra.] LXXYIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 



late. Involucre suburceolate or campanulate ; inner bracts 1 -seriate, subequal ; 

 outer oo -seriate, herbaceous, narrow, or the outermost broad and foliaceous- ; 

 receptacle flat. Anther-bases sagittate, acute or shortly setaceous. Style-arms 

 slender. Achenes narrow, incurved, subterete compressed or angled, glabrous, 

 o-10-ribbed, ribs transversely rugose, beak short or long, all similar or the 

 oiiter with a shorter beak and no pappus ; pappus copious, of 1 series of soft 

 feathery hairs, or of fewer rigid hairs dilated at the base, with sometimes a few 

 outer short hairs. DISTKIB. Species about 24, Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia and 

 one cosmopolitan. 



P. hieracioides, Linn. ; Buis*. Fl. Orient, iii. 734 ; tall, corymbosely 

 branched, radical leaves sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate ^-amplexicaul, pe- 

 duncles not thickened in fruit, achenes narrowly ellipsoid shortly beaked com- 

 pressed, all with feathery deciduous pappus, DC. Prodi: vii. 128; Clarke. 

 Comp. Ind. 251. P. hieracioides, rar. indica, Wif/ht Ic. t. 1143. P. hamulosa, 

 Wall. Cat. 3255; DC. I.e. 129. P. strigosa, Wall. Cat. 3250. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Murrce to lihotan, alt. 6-8000 ft., ascending to 

 10,000 ft. in Sikkiin. KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4-6000 ft. NILGHERRY MTS. ; alt. 5-8000 

 ft. DISTRIB. N. Asia to Japan, W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 



A coarse herb, 1-4 ft. ; hairs straight or hooked. Leaves 2-5 in. Heads ^- in. 

 long ; invol. bracts glabrous or hispid. Achenes in., narrowed at both ends, slightly 

 curved, brown ; pappus very white, | in. 



108. CREPIS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial glabrous or hairy herbs, hairs never stellate. Leaves 

 radical or alternate, cauline often stem-clasping, entire toothed or pinnatifid. 

 Heads peduccled, solitary fascicled or" corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous ; 

 fl. all ligulate. Involucre cylindric or campanulate ; invol. bracts either 

 oc -seriate and regularly imbricate, or the outer small or very much shorter than 

 the linear 1-seriate inner; base or midrib thickened after flowering or not; 

 receptacle flat, rarely concave, naked or shortly h'mbrillate. Achenes niorj or 

 less fusiform or oblong, rarely short and cylindric, often slender, glabrous or 

 scaberulous, 10-20-ribbed, tip narrowed or beaked ; pappus short or long, 

 usually copious, hairs usually silvery, simple and soft, rarely brownish and stiff 

 or brittle. DISTKITJ. Species 130, chiefly in N. temp, region of the old world, 

 none in S. temperate. 



It is impossible to draw a line between this genus and Lactuca, Hieracium, Launtfft 

 or even Prenanthcs. As a rule the Indian .spocies here included have terete or only 

 .slightly compressed achenes, narrowed from above the middle to the tip in all but the 

 last section; and they are truly beaked in section HarJihausia alone. 



SECT. I. Barkhausia. Inner or all the achenes with long slender beaks ; 

 pappus soft. 



1. C. foetida, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 851 ; hispid, lower leaves 

 lyrate-pinnatilid or sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate base ^-amplexicaul, heads 

 drooping in bud, invol. bracts hispid and glandular, outer hardened and keeled 

 at the base, outer achenes shorter than the bracts acute, inner long-beaked 

 scabrid striate. Clarke Comp. Ind. 252. ('. Kotschyaua, Clarke I. c. not of 

 Boissier. Barkhausia foetida, DC. Prodr. vii. 158. 



The PUNJAB and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, in fields, alt. 

 6-8000 ft. DISTRIB. Westward to the Atlantic. 



Annual ; branches suberect or spreading from the root, 6-18 in., stout, corymbosely 

 branched. Leaves 2-6 in. Heads, flowering \ in., fruiting f in, and as broad ; invol. 

 bracts hispid. Outer achenes % in., curved, pale, dorsally thickened; inner - in.; 



