882 LXV. COMPOSlTiE. 



8J. CREPIS, Linn. 

 (One of Pliny's names.) 

 (Youngia, BC.) 

 Involucre of a single row of nearly equal bracts, with a few small outer ones. 

 Eeceptacle without scales. Florets all ligulate. Achenes oblong, cylindrical 

 or scarcely flattened, striate, tapering at the top, but without a distinct beak. 

 Pappus of numerous fine white soft simple bristles. — Annual or perennial herbs, 

 usually branched. Leaves alternate or radical, mostly toothed or lobed. Flower- 

 heads in loose irregular corymbs or panicles. Florets yellow. 



A large genus, widely distributed over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, with 

 a few subtropical species, the only Australian one extending into tropical and Eastern Asia. — 

 Benth. 



1. C. japonica (of Japan), Benth. FL Uongk. 194 and Fl. Austr, iii. 678. 

 An erect slender annual, 6in. to near 1ft. high, glabrous or slightly pubescent 

 or hairy near the base. Leaves mostly radical, petiolate, varying from obovate, 

 nearly entire and 1 to 2in. long, to lyrate or pinnatifid, 2 to 4in. long, with a 

 large terminal toothed lobe. Stem-leaves few or in the Australian specimens 

 usually none. Panicle slender, loosely corymbose. Flower-heads small, 

 numerous. Involucres about 2-J lines long, containing 10 to 15 small yellow 

 florets. — Prena7Ulies japonica, Linn.; Youngia japonica, DC. Prod. vii. 194, also 

 1'. Thunhergiana, and some others of DC. See A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad, 

 vi, 396. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, U. Bcoion ; Dawson River, F. v. Mueller ; Dunk Island, M'Gillivray ; 

 Roekhampton, Thoset, ballachy. A common plant of wet land. 



The species is common in India, and extends on the one hand to Ceylon and the Mauritius, 

 and on the other to China and Japan. — Benth. 



85. HYPOCHCERIS, Linn. 



(Plant eaten by pigs.) 



(Cycnoseris, Endl.) 



Involucre broad or narrow, often elongated after flowering, the bracts 



imbricate. Receptacles with a few linear chaffy scales between the florets. 



Florets all ligulate. Achenes usually striate, all or the inner ones only tapering 



into a slender beak bearing a pappus of plumose bristles. — Annuals or perennials. 



Leaves radical. Stems simple or with a few^long branches, lea)fless or nearly so. 



Florets yellow. 



The genus is spread over the northern hemisphere, extending aUo' to extratropical South 

 America. The 2 Australian species are found nearly over the whole range of the genus. — Benth. 



Plant glabrous . . . . 1. H. glabra. 



Plant hispid 2. H. radicata 



1. H. glabra (smooth), Limi.; DC. Prod. vii. 90 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 677. 

 A glabrous annual. Leaves all radical, narrow, spreading, more or less toothed 

 or pinnately lobed. Stems 6in. to 1ft. high, usually divided into a few slender 

 branches, leafless except small scales at the base of the branches. Flower-heads 

 solitary at the ends of the branches. Involucre cylindrical, at .first small, but 

 lengthening out to from f to fin. when in fruit, of a few imbricated bracts, the 

 outer ones short and appressed. Achenes striate and transversely pitted, the 

 pappus of the outer ones sessile, that of the others borne on a long beak 

 terminating the achene. — Steetz in PI. Preiss. i. 488 ; Cycnoseris australis, Ehdl. 

 in Bot. Zeit. 1843, 459. 



Hab.: Common on wet land in the south. 



