Crepis.] lxxviii. composit;e. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 



terminated by small yellow heads. Leaves tew, radical soon disappearing. Heads 

 terminal and siiblateral, few fld. ; peduncles naked, slender. Achenes \ in. long, very 

 slender, pale, obscurely scabrid, hardly beaked ; pappus white. — Bentham suggests 

 that, this and Youngia flnxiiosa of the jiltai are varieties ; Clarke also points out they 

 are altogether similar, except in that the Altai plant has a distinct beak to the 

 achenes. 



5. C. tenuifolia, Willd. 8p. PI. iii. 1605; perennial, quite glabrous, 

 stems very many from the root-stock stout much branched stiff, radical leaves 

 long^petioled pimiatifid, lobes distant spreading very vmequal slender acuminate 

 sparingly toothed or entire, rachis -winged, heads corymbose J in. long, invdl. 

 bracts hoary outer very small inner linear subacute, tips often clawed, achenes 

 narrowly fusiform shortly beaked compressed ribbed miniJtely scabrid about 

 equalling the soft silvery pappus. Clarke Comp. Ind. 254. Barkhausia tenui- 

 folia, DC. Prodr. vii. 165. Youngia diversifolia, Ledeh. Fl. Koss. ii. 837. 

 Prenanthes diversifolia, Ledeh. Ic. Fl. Alt. t. 152. Lagoseris tenuifolia, Reiclib. 

 Ic. Crit. i. t. X. ' 



NoETHEEK Kashmir and Westeen Tibet; alt. 12-15,000 ft., Falconer, &c. — 

 DisTEiB. Dahuria, Siberia, Mongolia. 



Boot woody. Stem often branching from the base, 6-18 in. high, stiff. Leaves 

 4-8 in., narrow, radical rarely linear and entire, cauline usually so. Heads numerous; 

 peduncles bracteate, sometimes sparsely pubescent. Achenes | in., red-brown, slightly 

 compressed ; pappus-hairs rather deciduous. 



6. C. japonlca, Benth. Fl. Hongh. 194; annual, glalsrous or puberulous, 

 radical leaves obovate sinuate-toothed or runcinate-pinnatifid, flowering-stems 

 slender erect nearly naked, heads ^-j in. on slender bracteolate peduncles, invol. 

 bracts 6-8 narrowly oblong glabrous fruiting with a strong basal midrib, 

 achenes narrowly fusiform hardly beaked compressed ribbed equalling or shorter 

 than the white soft pappus. 0. lyrata, Clarhe Comp. Ind. 253. Youngia 

 lyrata, Cass. ; Thw. Enum. 168. Y. Thunbergiana, runcinata, napifolia, 

 Poosia, ambigua, fastigiata and striata, DC. Prodr. vii. 192, 193. Y. napifolia, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1147. Lactuca napifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 27. Chondrilla 

 runcinata, Wall. Cat. B'2i72. Prenanthes Poosia and napifolia, Wcdl. Cat. 8265, 

 S277. P. japonica, lAnn. Mant. 107. P. striata, Bl. Bijd. 885. 



Throughout India and Ceylon; ascending to 10,000 ft., in the Himalaya. — 

 DiSTEiB. Malay Peninsula, China, Japan, Affghanistan, Mauritius. 



Leaves rosulate, 2-6 in., membranous. Flowering stems 1 or many from the root, 

 6-18 in., soft, strict, corymbosely branched at the top ; branches slender, spreading. 

 Invol. bracts with hyaline margins, erect green. Achenes Jj in., distinctly contracted 

 but not beaked at the top, many-ribbed, ribs smooth, red-brown. — ^Wigbt suggests 

 that this should be placed in the Brachyramphus section of Lact'uca, and Clarke says 

 that the subgenus Youngia would be better placed under Lactuca. The fact is that it 

 will go with either Crepis or Lactuca, but has rather the habit of the former according 

 to Bentham's and my view of the limitation of these very artificial genera. 



7. C. fuscipappa, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 574; annual, glabrous or nearly 

 so, stem erect slender simple or sparingly forked, radical leaves petioled elongate 

 obovate or oblanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate sinuate-Iobed or pinnatifid, 

 cauline linear or lanceolate base narrow, heads few corymbose ^ in. long, 

 peduncles slender naked, outer invol. bracts very small, inner linear subacute 

 glabrous fruiting not ribbed at the base, achenes narrowly fusiform hardly 

 beaked compressed ribbed minutely scabrid about equalling the soft grey pappus. 

 Clarice Comp. Ind. 254. 0. gracilis, Hooh. f. Sr T. mss. ; Clarice Comp. Ind. 

 254. 0. primulifoUa, Herh. Ind. Or-. H.f. 8f T. Youngia fuscipappa, TAwmfts 

 Enum. 168. 



