196 45. COMPOSITE. 



st. simple, heads corymbose, involucre and peduncles glandular- 

 hairy, fr. with finely-rugose ribs, root without stoles. E. B. 935. 

 St. 4 6 feet high, leafy. Florets lemon- coloured. Marshes, 

 very rare. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



44. MULGEDIUM Cass. 



1. M. alpinum (Less.) ; 1. glabrous lyrate arrowshaped at the 

 base, terminal lobe large triangular-hastate acute, st. simple, 

 heads racemose, bracts peduncles and involucres glandular-hairy, 

 fr. oblong not attenuated with many ribs. Sonchus cceruleus 

 Sm., E. B. 2425. St. 3 feet high, glabrous below, leafy. L. 

 gradually smaller upwards, cordate on the barren shoots. Heads 

 small, many. Florets blue. Clova Mountains. P. VIII. S. 



Section 6. HIERACIE^E. Receptacle generally without 

 scales. Pappus filiform, never feathery nor dilated at the base. 

 Fruit terete, ribbed. 



45. CREPIS Linn. Hawk's-beard. 

 * Fruit with a long subulate beak. BARKHA.USIA Moeuch. 



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

 heads erect, involucre bristly and downy covering half the pappus, 

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

 herbaceous, fr. all equally beaked. E. B. S. 2929. Root fusi- 

 form. St. 1 2 feet high, hispid, angular, furrowed, purple 

 below, at length branched, corymbose. L. mostly radical lyrate- 

 runcinate with retrorse teeth, or deeply pinnatifid with the ter- 

 minal lobe large. Stem-1. few, sessile, clasping, deeply pinna- 

 tifid and toothed. Florets 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. 



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

 sagittate entire or incise-dentate below, heads erect, inv. 

 about covering the pappus, margin of the outer lanceolate acute 

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

 hispid with rigid simple bristles. E. B. S. 2945. Plant 12 

 feet high. Stem-1. large, rather strapshaped, clasping. Fields. 

 Introduced with seed. A. VII. VIII.] 



2. C. fatida (L.) ; 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 

 heads nodding, involucre hairy and downy as long as the greatly 

 protruded pappus, outer phyll. lanceolate acute downy, marginal 

 fr. slightly beaked shorter than the involucre, central ones with 

 long beaks equalling it. E. B. 406. Root slender, fusiform. 

 St. 6 12 in. high, hairy, round, branched. L. mostly radical, 



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