358 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Crepis. 



25. CREPIS, Vaill. 

 Heads campanulate ; involucral bracts in 2 series, with a few smaller at 

 the basBj herbaceous. Receptacle naked. Florets numerous, ligulate ; tube 

 short. Achenes linear or oblong, terete or scarcely compressed, striate, 

 narrowed at the apex, sometimes beaked. Pappus in several series of very fine 

 white or brown soft hairs. Annual or perennial branched rarely scapigerous 

 herbs, with radical or alternate toothed or lobed leaves and corymbose or panicu- 

 late heads. 



A rather large genus, widely distributed through the temperate and subtropical tegions of the 

 Northern Hemisphere ; extremely rare in the Southern Hemisphere. 



Name, firom the Greek, signifying a sandal. 



Branched. 



lft.-3ft. high. Leaves glabrous. AoheneS not beaked . . . . . . * C. vwens. 



Leaves hispid. 



Jft.-lft. high. Buds drooping. Outer achenes enclosed in the rigid invo- 

 lucral bracts ; inner with long slender beaks . . . . . . * C. foetida. 



Involucres herbaceous, tomentose. Achenes all with long slender beaks . . * C taraxacifolia. 



Peduncles and involucres clothed with sihiple rigid bristles . . . . * C. setdsa. 



Soapigerous .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1. C Novae- Zelandiae. 



* C. virens, L., Sp. PL ed. II. 1134. A variable annual. Stem lft.-3ft. high, 

 furrowed, branched. Leaves glabrous, 2in.-6in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate ; 

 radical petioled, toothed or runcinate, pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; cauline narrow, 

 sessile, half-clasping. Heads laxly corymbose, campanulate, ^in.-fin. in diameter; 

 involucres glandular, hairy ; outer bracts few, short ; inner linear-acuminate, erect, 

 equalling the pappus. Achene terete, slightly narrowed upward, but not beaked ; 

 ribs about 10, smooth. 



Naturalised throughout the colony. CHATHAM Islands. Jan. to March. Europe. 



* C. foetida, L., Sp. PL 807. Branched from the base. Branches spreading, 

 6in.-12in. high, hispid. Leaves few, runcinate-pinnatifid, lin.-2in. long. Heads 

 Jin. in diameter, solitary; peduncles bracteate or naked, strict, thickened upwards ; 

 buds drooping ; involucral bracts ultimately rigid, erect, lanceolate-acute, downy 

 hairy or setose, with a few minute bracteoles at the base. Outer achenes slightly 

 beaked, embraced by the bracts ; inner with long slender beaks equalling the invo- 

 lucres, ribbed, glabrous. 



NOBTH Island : sparingly naturalised near One-Tree Hill, Auckland, T. K. Eemuera, 

 / Dec, Jan. Europe. 



* C. taraxacifolia, Thuill, Fl. Par. 409. Hispid. Stem lft.-2fti. high, grooved 

 or furrowed, branched above. Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, radical, 3in.-6in. long. 

 Peduncles slender. Heads fin.-lin. in diameter, erect in bud ; mvolucral bracts 

 herbaceous, linear-acute, tomentose or glandular-hairy, with a few shorter spreading 

 at the base. Achenes all equally beaked ; ribs rough ; beak very slender, setaceous, 

 equalling the achene. Bracts never enclosing the achene, 



NOETH Island : naturalised ; Eemuera, T. E. Lovirer Waikato, Cheeseman. Jan., Feb. 

 Europe. 



- C. setosa, Haller f. in Boem. Arch. i. II. 1. Hispid. Stem angled and 

 furrowed, lft.-2ft. high, branched from the base, leafy. Lower leaves obovate- oblong, 

 sinuate-dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid ; upper amplexicaul, sagittate, toothed at the 



