Crepis.'] LXXYIII. cOMrosrr.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 



terminated by small yellow heads. Leaves few, radical soon disappearing. Heads 

 terminal and sublateral, few fld. ; peduncles naked, slender. AcJicncs i in. long, very 

 slender, pale, obscurely scabrid, hardly beaked ; pappus white. Bentham suggests 

 that this and Youngia flexuosa of the Altai are varieties ; Clarke also points out they 

 are altogether similar, except in that the Altai plant has a distinct beak to the 

 achenes. 



5. C. tenuifolia, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1C05 ; perennial, quite glabrous, 

 stems very many from the root-stock stout much, branched stiff, radical leaves 

 long-petioled pinnatifid, lobes distant spreading very unequal slender acuminate 

 sparingly toothed or entire, rachis winged, heads corymbose in. long, invol. 

 bracts hoary outer very small inner linear subacute, tips often clawed, acheues 

 narrowly fusiform shortly beaked compressed ribbed minutely scabrid about 

 equalling the soft silvery pappus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 254. Barkhausia tenui- 

 folia, DC. Prodr. vii. *155. Youugia diversifolia, Ledeb. FL Itoss. ii. 837. 

 Prenanthes diversifolia, Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Alt, t. 152. Lagoseris tenuifolia, JReichb. 

 Ic. Crit. i. t. x. 



NORTHERN KASHMIR and WESTERN TIBET; alt. 12-15,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Dahuria, Siberia, Mongolia. 



Boot woody. Stem often branching from the base, 618 in. high, stiff. Leaves 

 4-8 in., narrow, radical rarely linear and entire, cauline usually so. Heads numerous; 

 peduncles bracteate, sometimes sparsely pubescent. Achenes | in., red-brown, slightly 

 compressed ; pappus-hairs rather deciduous. 



6. C. japonica, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 194; annual, glabrous or puberulous, 

 radical leaves obovate sinuate-toothed or runcinate-piunatifid, flowering-stems 

 slender erect nearly naked, heads \-\ in. on slender bracteolate peduncles, invol. 

 bracts 6-8 narrowly oblong glabrous fruitirjg with a strong basal midrib, 

 achenes narrowly fusiform hardly beaked compressed ribbed equalling or shorter 

 than the white soft pappus. 0. lyrata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 253. Youngia 

 lyrata, Cass. ; Thic. Enum. 1G8. Y. Thimbergiana, runciuata, napifolia, 

 Poosia, ambigua, fastigiata and striata, DC. Prodr. vii. 192, 193. Y. napifolia, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1147. Lactuca napifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 27. Ohondrilla 

 runcinata, Wall. Cat. 3272. Preuanthes Poosia and napifolia, Wall. Cat. 3265, 



P. japonica, Linn. Mant. 107. P. striata, Bl. Bijd. 885. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON; ascending to 10,000 ft., in the Himalaya. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Peninsula, China, Japan, Affghanistan, Mauritius. 



Leaves rosulate, 2-6 in., membranous. Flowering stems 1 or many from the root, 

 6-18 in., soft, strict, corymbosely branched at the top; branches slender, spreading. 

 Invol. bracts with hyaline margins, erect green. Achenes ~ in., distinctly contracted 

 but not beaked at the top, many-ribbed, ribs smooth, red-brown. Wight suggests 

 that this should be placed in the Brachyramphus section of Lactuca, and Clarke says 

 that the subgenus Youngia would be better placed under Lactuca. The fact is that it 

 will go with either Ortpts or Lactuca, but has rather the habit of the former according 

 to Bentham' s and my view of the limitation of these very artificial genera. 



7. C. fuscipappa, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 574; annual, glabrous or nearly 

 so, stem erect slender simple or sparingly forked, radical leaves petioled elongate 

 obovate or oblanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid, 

 cauline linear or lanceolate base narrow, heads few corymbose ^ in. long, 

 peduncles slender naked, outer invol. bracts very small, inner linear subacute 

 glabrous fruiting not ribbed at the base, acheues narrowly fusiform hardly 

 beaked compressed ribbed minutely scabrid about equalling the soft grey pappus. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 254. C. gracilis, Hook. f. $ T. mss. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 254. 0. primulifolia, Herb. Ind. Or. II. f. fy T. Youngia fuscipappa, Thwaites 

 Enum. 168. 



