CKEPIS. 215 



/ 

 mostly radical ; stem-1. few, 'small, lanceolate, deeply toothed 

 at the base, sessile. Heads' solitary, terminal, on long simple 

 stalks. Midrib of the phyU. at length much thickened and 

 hardened. Ribs of the fr. rough. — Chalky places, rare. B. VI. 

 vn. ^ ^i- ' ^_ 



[ C. setdsa (Hall.) ; 1. runcinate-dentate or lyrate-runcinate, 

 st.-l. sagittate entire or incise-dentate below, buds erect, inv. 

 not quite covering the pappus, margin of the outer lanceolate 

 acute phyU. and the bracts and the back of the inner phyll. 

 and the ped. hispid with rigid simple bristles.- — JE. B. 8. 2945. 

 — Plant 1 — 2 feet high. Stem-l. large, rather strapshaped, 

 clasping. — ^Fields. Introduced with seed. A. VII. VIII.] E. 



** Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely beaked. Pappus sUhy. 

 [C pul'chra (L.), E. B. 2325, was propably an error.] 



3. C. virens (L.) ; outer phyll. adpressed linear, inner ones gla- 

 brous mithin, 1. lanceolate remotely dentate runcinate or pinna- 

 tifid, uppermost I. linear-fUTOwshaped clasping with flat margins, 

 St. suboorymbose, fr. shorter than the pappus oblong slightly nar- 

 rowed upwards with smooth ribs. — C. tectorum Sm., B. B. 1111 

 (not Linn.). — Very variable. St. 1 — 3 feet high. FI. yellow. 

 [C. tectorum (L.) has revolute-margined upper 1., phyll. downy 

 within, fr. somewhat beaked with scarious ribs; Mr. Brotherston 

 found it as an escape near Kelso.] — Common. A. VI. — IX. 



E. S. I. 



4. C. bien'nis (L.) ; outer phyll. ohlotig -linear lax, inner downy 

 vMhin, 1. runcinate-pinnatifid hispid, uppermost 1. lanceolate 

 clasping dentate-pinnatifid, st. suboorymbose, fr. oblong slightly 

 narrowed upwards with nearly smooth ribs and about as long 

 as the pappus. — B. B. 149. — St. 1 — 3 feet high, hispid, nearly 

 leafless above, corymbosely branched. Heads laige ; fi. yellow. 

 X. radical and extending halfway up the stem,. — Chalky places, 

 rare.P B. VI. VH. E.I. 



5. C hieracimdes (W. & K.) ; phyll. lanceolate-attenuate, outer 

 ones very short addressed, I. entire nearly glabrous oblong blunt, 

 lower ones narrowed into a footstalk, upper I. sessile and some- 

 what clasping, .st. corymbose, ped. and inv. glandular-hairy, fr. 

 much striate slightly narrowed upwards as long as the pappus 

 which is shorter than the involucre. — C sMcas«8/'o/ja Tausch. 

 Hieracium molle Sm. B. B. 2210. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, erect, 

 simple below; 1. few. Heads few; fl. yellow. — Woods in the 

 North. P. VH. Vin. E. S. 



