230 45. COMPOSITE. 



F. Receptacle generally without scales. Pappus filiform, never 

 feathery nor dilated at the base. Fruit terete, ribbed. 



46. CRE'PIS Linn. Hawk's-beard. 

 * Fruit with a long subulate beak. BARKHAUSIA Moench. 



1. C. taraxacifolia (Thuil.) ; 1. rough runcinate-pinnatifid, 

 buds erect, inv. bristly and downy covering half the pappus, 

 outer phyll. lanceolate with a membranous margin, bracts her- 

 baceous///-, all equally beaked E. B. S. 2929. St. 12 feet 

 high, hispid, angular, furrowed, purple below, at length branched, 

 corymbose. L. mostly radical lyrate-runcinate with backward 

 teeth or deeply pinnatind with the terminal lobe large. Stem-1. 

 few, sessile, clasping, deeply pinnatitid and toothed. Fl. yellow, 

 purple beneath. Fr. narrowing very gradually into a setaceous 

 beak of about its own length, ribs rough. Limestone districts. 

 B. VI. VII. E. I. 



2. C. fce'tida (L.) ; 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 

 buds nodding, inv. hairy and downy, outer phyll. lanceolate 

 acute downy, marginal fr. slightly beaked shorter than the inv., 

 central fr. with long beaks equalling inv., pappus protruding. 

 E. B. 406. St. 612. in. high, hairy, round, branched. L. 

 mostly radical ; stem-1. few, small, lanceolate, deeply toothed 

 at the base, sessile. Heads solitary, terminal, on long simple 

 stalks. Midrib of the phyll. at length much thickened and 

 hardened. Ribs of the fr. rough. Chalkv pJaces, rare. B. VI. 

 VII. E. 



[C. setosa (Hall.); 1. runcinate- dentate or lyrate-runcinate, 

 st.-l. sagittate entire or incise-dentate below, buds erect, inv. 

 not quite covering the pappus, margin of the outer lanceolate 

 acute phyll. and the bracts and the back of the inner phyll. 

 and the ped. hispid with rigid simple bristles. E. B. S. 2945. 

 Plant 1 2 feet high. Stem-1. large, rather strapshaped, clasping. 

 Fields. Introduced with seed. A. VII. VIII. ] E.I. 



** Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely leaked. Pappus silky. 



[C.pul'chra (L.), JE. B. 2325, was probably an error.] 



3. C. virens (L.) ; outer phyll. adpressed linear, inner ones 

 glabrous within,\. lanceolate remotely dentate runcinate or pinna- 

 tind, uppermost I. linear-arrowshaped clasping with flat margins, 

 st. subcorymbose, fr. shorter than the pappus oblong slightly 



