Picris.] LsxA'iii. composite:. (J. D. Hooker.) 393 



late. Involucre suburceolate or campanulate ; inner bracts 1-seriate, subequal ; 

 outer 00 -seriate, herbaceous, narrow, or the outermost broad and foliaceous ; 

 receptacle flat. Anther-basei sagittate, acute or shortly setaceous. Style-arms 

 slender. Achenes narrow, incurved, subterete compressed or angled, glabrous, 

 5-10-ribbed, ribs transversely rugose, beak short or long, all similar or the 

 outer with a shorter beak and no pappus ; pappus copious, of 1 series of soft 

 feathery hairs, or of fewer rigid hairs dilated at the base, with sometimes a few 

 outer short hairs. — ^Disikib. Species about 24, Europe, N. Africa, N, Asia and 

 one cosmopolitan. 



P. hieracioldes, Linn. ; B&iss. Fl. Orient, iii. 734 ; tall, corymbosely 

 branched, radical leaves sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate J-amplexicaul, pe- 

 duncles not thickened in fruit, achenes narrowly ellipsoid shortly beaked com- 

 preissed, all with feathery deciduous pappus. DC. Frodr. vii. 128; Clarlte 

 Comp. Ind. 251. P. hieracioides, var. indica, WigJit let. 1143. P. hamulosa. 

 Wall. Cat. 3255; DC. I.e. 129. P. strigosa. Wall. Cat. 3256. 



Tempeeate Himalaya; from Murree to Bhotan, alt. 6-8(100 ft., ascending to 

 10,000 ft. in Sikkim. Khasia Mts. ; alt. 4-6000 ft. NiLoiiEnnY Mrs. ; alt. 5-8000 

 ft. — DiSTKiB. N. Asia to Japan, W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 



A coarse herb, 1-4 ft. ; hairs straight or hooked. Leaves 2-5 in. Heads ^-| in. 

 long ; invol. bracts glabrous or hispid. Achenes ^ in., narro-wfd at both ends, slightly 

 curved, brown ; pappus very white, j in. 



108. CREFZS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial glabrous or hairy herbs, hairs never stellate. Leaves 

 radical or alternate, cauline often stem-clasping, entire toothed or pinnatifid. 

 Heads peduncled, solitary fascicled or corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous ; 

 fl. all ligulate. Involucre cylindric or campanulate ; invol. bracts either 

 00 -seriate and regularly imbricate, or the outer small or very much shorter than 

 the linear 1-seriate inner ; base or midrib thickened after flowering or not ; 

 receptacle flat, rarely concave, naked or shortly fimbriUate. Achenes mord or 

 less fusiform or oblong, rarely short and cylindric, often slender, glabrous or 

 scaberulous, 10-20-ribbed, tip narrowed or beaked ; pappus short or long, 

 usually copious, hairs usually silvery, simple and soft, rarely brownish and stiff 

 or brittle. — Disieib. Species 130, chiefly in N. temp, region of the old world, 

 none in S. temperate. 



It is impossible to draw a line between this genus and iocftfca, Eieracium, Launaa 

 or even Prenanihes. As a rule the Indian species here included have terete or only 

 slightly compressed achenes, narrowed from above the middle to the tip in all but the 

 last section; and they are truly beaked in section BarJchatisia alone. 



Sect. I. Barkhausia. Inner or all the achenes with long slender beaks ; 

 pappus soft. 



1. C. fcetida) lAnn. ; Foiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 851 ; hispid, lower leaves 

 lyrate-pinnatifid or sinuate-toothed, cauline cordate base J-amplexicaul, heads 

 drooping in bud, invol. bracts hispid and glandular, outer hardened and keeled 

 at the base, outer achenes shorter than the bracts acute, inner long-beaked 

 Ecabrid striate. Clarhe Conip. Ind. 252. C. Kotschyana, Clarhe I. c. not of 

 Boissier. Barkhausia foetida, DC. Frodr. vii. 158. 



The Punjab and Westeen Hijiaxaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, in fields, alt. 

 6-8000 ft.— DisTEiB. Westward to the Atlantic. 



Annual ; branches suberect or spreading from the root, 6-1 8 in., stout, corymbosely 

 branched. Leaves 2-6 in. Heads, flowering \ in., fruiting | in, and as broad ; invol. 

 bracts hispid. Outer achenes ^ in., curved, palo, dorsally thickened ; inner ^J in, ; 



