COMPOSITiE. 101 



In dry waste places, wall-tops, cultivated ground, &c. Very 

 common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



A very variable plant, sometimes with a single erect stout 

 copiously leafy stem 2 feet or more high ; at other times, as when 

 growing in dry situations, with numerous ascending stems G inches 

 long, with very few leaves and divaricate peduncles ; but every 

 intermediate form between these extremes may be found. An- 

 thodes ^ to f inch across. Florets yellow. Achenes reddish-brown, 

 distinctly attenuated at the top, but without any beak. Plant gla- 

 brous or sub-glabrous ; the stem, midribs cff the leaves, peduncles, 

 and phyUaries being the only portions which are hairy. 



Smooth Ifatok's-beard. 



French, Crepick Verle. German, Griine Grv.ndfeste. 



SPECIES v.— C REPIS BIENNIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXIX. 



Bilbt, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1915. 



Jieich. Ic Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXIX. 



Biennial. Stem stout, branched in the upper half, hairy, 

 leafy. Leaves runcinate- and lyrate-pinnatifid, hairy. Anthodes 

 erect in bud, in corymbs terminating the stem and branches. 

 Peduncles moderately long, straight or nearly so, not thickened 

 upwards. PhyUaries hairy, the hairs often intermingled with 

 longer gland-tipped ones ; the inner phyUaries downy within ; 

 exterior ones lax or spreading. Achenes not beaked, fusiform- 

 cylindric, slightly attenuated towards the apex, with 13 slightly 

 rugose ribs. Pappus of pure-white soft hairs, slightly exceeding 

 the phyUaries. 



In chalky places, roadsides, and borders of fields. Local. 

 Common in Kent, also in Surrey, Essex, Cambridge, and 

 Leicestershire, and reported from other counties. It is, however, 

 impossible to give the distribution of this species correctly, as it 

 has been so often confounded with C. taraxacifolia. 



England. Biennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Extremely like C. taraxacifolia, but a stouter plant, with the 

 stem rather less branched and much more leafy, the peduncles 

 shorter and thicker, the anthodes larger, the achenes without a 



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