COMPOSIT.E. 157 



nearly straight, -with projecting points, not scolloped into small 

 teetli, as in S. palustris. The anthodes are more numerous, 

 smaller, and tlie florets paler yellow. Tiie phyllaries are narrower, 

 with shorter hairs tipped with olive glands, and consequently appear- 

 ing of a deeper green than those of S. arvensis. The achenes are 

 larger, paler in colour, less compressed, with the ribs unequal and 

 less rugose. 



Marsh Sow-thistle. 



French, Laitron des Marais. German, Sum]>f-Savdialel. 



GENUS XL.—C R E P I S. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered. Pericline oblong or oblong-ovoid, 

 of numerous phyllaries regularly imbricated in several series, 

 or more frequently in 2 series, with the outer ones shorter. 

 Clinanth naked or fibrillous. Achenes cylindrical or prismatic, 

 with 10 to 30 ribs, narrowed towards the apex, and sometimes 

 prolonged into a beak. Pappus of white (rarely dirty-white) 

 simple, often silky filiform hairs. 



Herbs of various habit, with commonly rather large anthodes 

 of yellow, orange, red, or pink flowers. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from KpciriQ {hrepis), a shoe, the blossom 

 bearing some resemblance to the form of a slipper. 



Sub-Genus I.— BARKHAUSIA. Mdnch. 



Achenes (or at least those of the disk) attenuated into a 

 slender beak. Pappus of numerous soft, silky, pure white hairs. 



SPECIES I.— ORE PIS FCETIDA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXV. 



Blllol, V\. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 810. 



llekh. Ic. El. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXIV. 



BaikliaiLsia foitida, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 158. 



13orkhausia foetida. Hook. &, Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 215. 



Annual or biennial. Stem branched chiefly in the lower hall' 

 or from the base, sparingly leafy. Leaves runcinate- or lacerate- 

 pinnatitid. Anthodes drooping in bud, sub-solitary, corymbosely 

 arranged. Peduncles long, uncurvcd, slightly thickened upwards. 

 Phyllaries hairy, the inner ones at length indurated and folded 



