Crepis.'\ SYNGENESIA — .T.OUALIS. 291 



8. Crepis. Linn. Hawk's-beard. 



1. C. virens, L. (smooth HawKs-bcard); leaves glabrous run- 

 cinate the upper ones linear-sagittate amplexicaul the margins 

 plane, stem glabrous, panicle subcorynibose, fruit oblong short- 

 er than the pappus which latter is almost as long as the invo- 

 lucre. C. tectorum, E.Bot. t. 1111. 



_ Dry pastures, roofs of cottages, &c. Fl. July. 0. — Stems 1 — 3 feet 

 high. Radical leaves more or less piiinatifid or runcinate, their teeth 

 or segments often horizontal, sometimes curved upwards. Flowers 

 small, yellow, outer scales of the involucre very narrow, hispid. Mr 

 Babington has clearly shown {Linn. Trans, v. xiii. p. 455) that the 

 C tectorum, of English authors, is the C. virens, L. 



2. C. hiemiis, L. (lour/h Haivk's-beard); leaves rough runci- 

 nato-pinnatifid their lobes toothed, involucre downy shorter 

 than the pappus, fruit with a long beak, longer than the pappus. 

 E. Bot. t. 149. 



Chalky pastures in England ; Kent, Suffolk, &c. Near Bangor, N. 

 Wales, Mr W. Wilson. Fl. June, July. $ .—Stems 2—4 feet high, 

 furrowed, rough above. Flowers much larger than in the preceding ; 

 outer scales of the involucre almost glabrous. Pappus very white, and 

 upon d, fruit so attenuated upwards as to form a stalk. 



3. C.piilchra, L. {small-fiowered HawK s-heard') ; leaves downy 

 toothed, radical ones oblongo-obovate, the rest sagittato-am- 

 plexicaul, panicle corymbose spreading, fruit very obscurely 

 striated slightly attenuated upwards about as long as the pap- 

 pus, the latter equalling the glabrous involucre in length. L. — 

 E. Bot. t. 2325 — Prenanthes hieraciifolia, Willd. 



Crumbling rocks on the hill of Turin, near Forfar, Scotland. Fl. 

 June — Sept. ©. — Root-leaves tapering into afoot-stalk ; cauline ones 

 broad, clasping the stem with their toothed bases ; outer scales of the in- 

 volucre very minute. I have never seen British specimens. 



4. C. succiscEfolia, Tausch. (Succory-leaved Hawk's-beard) ; 

 stem tall panicled above, leaves oblong obtuse nearly glabrous 

 and entire the radical ones attenuated into a long petiole, fruit 

 much striated compressed slightly narrower upwards as long as 

 the pappus which latter is rather shorter than the involucre. 

 —Hieracium, All. — H. molle, Jacq. — E. Bot. t. 2210 — H.Croa- 

 ticum and Crejns hieracioidcs, W. et K. — Geracium Croaticum 

 and succiscefolium, Reich. 



Woods ; Scotland. Near Forfar, Falls of the Tummel, Glen Luss, 

 also in Langton woods, and near Renton, Berwickshire. Fl. July, Aug. 

 1^. — This plant varies in the hairiness of its leaves, and is, I cannot 

 doubt, notwithstanding the remarks of Sir J. E. Smith in E. Fl., the true 

 H. succiscefolium of Allioni, which Tausch has long ago, (Rot. Zeit. v. ii. 

 Erganz. p. 79.) together with the following species, referred to Crepis. 



5. C. paludosa, Mcench, (3Iarsh Hawk' s.beard^ ; glabrous, 

 stem erect branched upwards and subcorymbose, radical leaves 

 ovato-oblong runcinato-dentate attenuated into a foot-stalk, 

 cauline ones lanceolate toothed heart-shaped at the base and 



