Crepis.] COMPOSITE. 231 



outer spreading. Fruit \ in., red-brown ; ribs close set, prominent, rough. — 

 Distrib. Europe.— Besembles C. taraxacifolia. 



3. C. hieracioi'des, Waldst. and Kit. ; glabrous or hairy, lower leaves 

 oblong-spathulate, upper linear-oblong ^-amplexicaul, bracts with gland- 

 tipped hairs. C. succismfo'lia, Tausch. ; Hiera'cium mol'le, Sm. 

 Mountain woods, from York to Dumbarton and Banff ; ascends to 1,200 ft. in 



Northumbd. ; fl. July-Aug. — Slender, perennial, variable in pubescence. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse, entire or sinuate-toothed. Heads f-1 in. diam., 

 few ; involucre subcylindric, outer bracts appressed short about as long as 

 the pappus. Fruit contracted at the base and tip ; ribs many, smooth. — 

 Distrib. Mid. Europe to tbe Caucasus. 



Sub-gen. 2. Barkhau'sia, Mcench (gen.). Peduncles slender or 

 thickened upwards. Fruit beaked, many-ribbed, minutely hispid. 



4. C. foe'tida, L. ; hispid, stem branched from below, leaves runcinate- 

 pinnatifid, peduncles bracteate incurved thickened upwards, buds drooping, 

 invol. bracts tomentose inner hardening and enclosing the outer fruits. 



Chalky and gravelly banks, rare, from Cambridge and Norfolk to Sussex 

 and Kent; fl. June-July. — Annual or biennial. Stew 1-2 ft., terete, faintly 

 furrowed, usually with many ascending corymbose branches. Heads § in. 

 diam., bright yellow ; peduncles long ; invol. bracts often setose and 

 glandular, outer erect or spreading. Fruit yellow-brown, beak of outer 

 shorter than the bracts, of inner longer. — Distrib. From Belgium southd., 

 Himalaya, N. Africa. 



5. C. taraxacifolia, Thuill. ; hispid, stem branched above, leaves 

 runcinate-pinnatifid, peduncles very slender not thickened, buds erect, 

 inner invol. bracts not enclosing the outer fruits. 



Dry banks and chalky pastures, local, from Yorkshire to Cornwall and Kent; 

 Carnarvon ; fl. June- July.— Habit and foliage of C. biennis, biennial. Ste?7i 

 1-2 ft., ribbed and furrowed. Heads f-1 in. diam.; involucre cylindric- 

 campanulate, often glandular as well as tomentose, outer bracts spreading, 

 not hardening. Flowers yellow, outer striped with brown on the back. 

 Fruits yellow-brown, all long-beaked and very slender. — Distrib. W. 

 Europe from Belgium southd., N. Africa. 



C. seto'sa, Holler fil. ; hispid, lower leaves sinuate-toothed or runcinate- 



pinnatifid, upper amplexicaul, peduncles slender not thickened, buds erect, 



invol. bracts prickly, inner not enclosing the outer fruits. 



A casual in clover fields ; fl. Aug. — Biennial. Stem 1-3 ft., erect, branched 



from the base, angled and furrowed, leafy. Leaves very variable. Peduncles 



rigid, deeply grooved. Heads \ in. diam., campanulate ; involucre contracted 



in fruit; bracts very rigid, slender, keeled, outer subulate spreading, inner 



linear shorter than the pappus, hardening. Fruits all slender with long 



beaks. — Distrib. Mid. and S. Europe. 



Sub-gen. 3. Ara'cium, Mown, (gen.). Peduncles very slender ; buds 

 erect. Fruit slender, not beaked, many-ribbed, quite smooth. Pappus 

 of dirty-white fragile hairs. 



