394 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Crepis. 



straight, many- ribbed, red-brown, beak very slender as long as the body ; pappus 

 5- in., dirty-white. 



SECT. II. Soyeria. Perennials. Heads large, broad, usually hirsute ; 

 invol. bracts imbricating, all long or outer broad or narrow, gradually passing 

 into the inner. Achenes long, narrowed gradually upwards or to both ends ; 

 pappus soft, white. 



2. C. sibirica, Linn. ; Ledeb. FL Ross. ii. 828 ; stout, erect, more or less 

 hispid, radical and lower leaves oblanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid, lobes rounded denticulate, cauline cordate ^-amplexicaul, 

 heads 1 in. diam. few subcorymbose peduncled, invol. bracts obtuse ciliate and 

 pubescent, outer broadly ovate, inner linear, achenes in. slender ribbed smooth 

 gradually narrowed upwards, pappus short. DC. Prodr. vii. 167 ; Reichb. Ic. 

 Fl. Germ. t. 1458. Clarke Comp Ind. 252. Hieracium sibiricum, Gmel. 

 Soyeria sibirica, Monnier Hieracium, 177. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, Falconer, &c., alt. 6-10,000. 

 DISTRIB. Siberia, S. Europe to Austria. 



Root fusiform, very stout. Stem 6-18 in., simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 

 6-12 in., lowest petioled, scaberulous or glabrate above. Achenes pale brown, quite 

 smooth ; pappus in., rather scanty, hairs singly deciduous. I have not quoted 

 Boissier who (iii. 833) describes the achenes as 20-30-ribbed, the ribs transversely 

 mgulose and scaberulous. 



3. C. blattarioides, VHL; DC. Prodr. vii. 167; hispid, villous and 

 glandular above, stem simple subcorymbosely branched above, leaves entire or 

 sinuate-toothed radical obovate-oblong petioled, cauline few large sessile, heads 

 1 in. diam. few erect, peduncles long strict naked, invol. bracts 2-3-seriate all 

 long lanceolate acute villous, achenes in. slender narrowed at both ends ribbed 

 smooth longer than the white shining pappus. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1461. 

 C. austriaca, Jacq. Fl. Aust. v. t. 441. Hieracium blattarioides, Linn. Soyeria 

 blattarioides, Monnier Tarax. 76. 



KASHMIR; Sonamurg, alt. 11,500 ft., Clarke. DISTRIB. Mid. & West Europe. 



Stem 1-2 ft., rather stout. Leaves, radical, 2-4 by 1-2 in., cauline as broad or 

 broader. Heads 4-8, rarely more ; peduncle swollen at the base ; invol. bracts 

 20-30, in. long, blackish when dry, acuminate, with rarely a slender shorter basal 

 one. Achenes red- brown, outer curved, ribs strong; pappus |- in. long, rather 

 persistent. 



SECT. III. Youngria. Heads small, narrow ; outer iuvol. bracts very 

 snort, inner linear 1-seriate. Achenes small, narrowed at both ends, slightly 

 flattened, ribbed, hardly beaked ; pappus soft white or grey. 



* Stems or flowering branches much dichotomomly branched, slendej', viryatc, 



4. C. glauca, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 515 ; annual, quite glabrous, stems 

 very numerous from the root dichotomously divaricatingly excessively branched, 

 radical leaves long-petioled obovate-spathulate sinuate-toothed pinnatifid or 

 pinnate, lobes variously acutely cut, cauline sessile linear entire, heads ^~ in. 

 narrow, outer invol. bracts minute inner 6-8 linear glabrous, achenes very 

 slender ribbed to the tip longer than the white pappus. C. flexuosa, Clarke, 

 Coinp. Ind. 254 (not of Ledeb.'). Barkhausia flexuosa, DC. Prodr. vii. 155. 

 Youngia glauca, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 79. 



WESTERN TIBET, and the Tibetan regions of Lahul and Kumaon, alt. 8-17,000 ft., 

 Falconer, &c. 



A most densely corymbosely branched herb, forming an obconical mass 6-12 in. 

 high, and as broad at the truncate top. of forking spreading rigid slender branches 



