CLASS XIX. ORDER I. | CREPIS. 1033 
odour of the juice, it is probable that it possesses some medicinal 
property analagous to that of the Lactucas; but we are not aware of 
its haying been applied to any particular use. 
GENUS XI. CRE’PIS.—Linn. Hawk’s-beard. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tTEx. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Jnvolucrum sub-imbricated, lax when in fruit usually 
ribbed. Receptacle naked. Fruit roundish, or sub-compressed, 
numerously striated. Pappus hairy, soft, deciduous—Name 
xenzts, a slipper, or last, in Greek; but why applied to this 
plant is not known. 
1. C. vi'rens, Linn. (Fig. 1211,) Smooth Hawk’s-beard. Stem 
branched, leafy, sub-corymbose; leaves smooth, the radical ones 
lanceolate, toothed, or runcinato-pinnatifid, the upper ones linear, 
sagitate ; involucre with the outer scales small, linear, close pressed, 
the inner ones much longer, smooth; fruit oblong, smooth, ten 
ribbed. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 291.—C. tectorum.—English 
Botany, t. 1111.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 373.—Lindley, Synopsis, 
p- 158. 
Root tapering. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, leafy, fur- 
rowed, smooth, sometimes slightly downy, and mostly of a pinkish 
colour, branched above in a sub-corymbose manner. Leaves smooth, 
bright green, the lower ones oblong lanceolate, variously toothed or 
runcinate in a pinnatifid manner, the upper ones linear, entire, erect, 
with two narrow lobes, at the base clasping the stem. Flowers small, 
solitary upon itsslender peduncle. Sracteas small, linear. Involucre 
smooth, or with the outer slender, linear, close pressed, scales downy, 
and the inner smooth. Florets bright yellow, linear, obtuse, toothed 
at the end. fruit linear, oblong, slightly contracted above, smooth, 
ten ribbed. Pappus white, silky, roughish. 
Habitat.—Dry pastures, roofs of cottages, old walls, &e. 
Annual; flowering in July. 
From the various kinds of situations of the growth of this plant, it 
is found variable in size and appearance, but it is constant in the 
above characters. 
2. C. bien'nis, Linn. (Fig. 1212.) Rough Hawk’s-beard. Stem 
branched, leafy, sub-corymbose ; leaves hairy, the radical ones lanceo- 
late, toothed, or runcinato-pinnatifid, the upper ones linear, sagitate, 
or toothed; involucre downy, the outer scales spreading, hispid at 
the back ; fruit linear, narrowed above, smooth, thirteen ribbed. 
English Botany, t. 149.—English Flora, vol. i. p. 374.— Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4, vol. i. p. 291.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 108. 
