CLASS XIX. ORDER I. ] CREPIS. 1035 
outer ones much the smallest; fruit much striated, smooth, slender 
upwards. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 291—Hieracium moile, 
Jacq.—English Botany, t. 2210.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 364.— 
Lindley, Seance p. 160. 
Root fibrous, the whole plant more or less clothed with close 
pressed hairs. Stem erect, angular, leafy, from twelve to eighteen 
inches high. Zeaves numerous, the radical ones elliptic oblong: 
obtuse, entire, or minutely toothed on the margin, tapering at the 
base into a long slender footstalk, the upper leaves sessile, clasping 
the stem, lanceolate. Injlorescence a sub-corymbose panicle of nu- 
merous flowers, the peduncles and involucre clothed with glandular 
pubescence. Flowers bright yellow. lorets linear, striated, obtuse, 
finely toothed. Jnvolucre of lanceolate taper pointed scales, the outer 
ones small, close pressed. Bracteas lanceolate, small. Fruit finely 
striated, smooth, pale brown, tapering upwards. Pappus white, 
silky, rough. 
Habitat—Woods, Scotland; near Forfar, falls of the Tummel, 
Glen Luss; Langton Woods, and near Renton, Berwickshire. 
Perennial; flowering in July and August. 
5. C.paludo'sa, Mench. (Fig. 1215.) Marsh Hawk's-beard. Smooth. 
Stem erect, branched upwards, and sub-corymbose; radical leaves 
oblong, acute, runcinato-dentate, tapering into a footstalk, the upper 
ones lanceolate, sessile, and amplexicaul, toothed; involucre scales 
lanceolate, attenuated, clothed with glandular hairs; fruit ten ribbed. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 291.—Hieracium paludosum. 
Linn.—English Botany, t. 1094.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 363.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 160. 
Root fibrous. Stem erect, hollow, angular, smooth, pink below, 
about two feet high, branched above in a sub-corymbose manner. 
Leaves smoeth, the lower ones oblong, taper-pointed, toothed in a 
runcinate manner, the base tapering into a rather long footstalk, the 
upper leaves sessile, clasping the stem, lanceolate, with a longer 
tapered point. Inflorescence sub-corymbose, of few flowers. Bracteas 
small, lanceolate. FJorets short, linear, obtuse, finely toothed. In- 
voluere clothed with glandular pubescence, the scales lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, the outer ones much the sbortest. Fruit oblong, 
smooth, ten ribbed. 
Habitat—Woods and rocky places, where it is moist, 
Perennial ; flowering in August. 
