616 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Totpis 



C. sucxulenfa Ait., I.e. Hieradvmi fruticosum Willd. Sp. PL iii. 

 1591 (1800). T.filiformis DO. Prodr. vii. p. 87 (1838). T. succu- 

 lenta Lowe, Fl. Mad. i. p. 525 (1868). 



Yar. multifida (Lowe, I.e., p. 527). 



Island of Madeira. — A somewhat shrubby herb, 6 to 18 in. high, 

 with pretty yellow flowers. In stony places between Funchal and 

 Oamara dos Lobos, plentiful ; fl. and fr. August 1853. No. 3624. 



78. CREPIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen PL ii. p. 513. 



1. C. bumbensis Hiern, sp.n. 



A perennial herb, about a foot high or a little more ; root sub- 

 napif orm, f in. thick ; leaves all radical or nearly so, forming a 

 rosette, oblanceolate, not lobed, denticulate-repand, usually 

 rounded and minutely mucronulate at the apex, wedge-shaped 

 towards the sessile or scarcely petiolate somewhat dilated or 

 clasping base, thinly herbaceous, green and minutely or obsoletely 

 glandular-scaly on both faces, scattered beneath with some broad- 

 based simple short inconspicuous hairs, 2 to 2^ in. long by | to f in. 

 broad ; stems several, scapiform, loosely and dichotomously divided 

 about thrice from near the base upwards, bracteate, rather slender, 

 shining, nearly glabrous, erect or ascending ; the ultimate branches 

 pedunculiform, 1 to 5J in. long and puberulous about the apex ; 

 bracts small, from a clasping or sessile base, narrow or subulate, 

 the upper ones smaller ; capitula many-flowered, campanulate in 

 flower, rather oblong in fruit, i^ to |^ in. broad ; singly termi- 

 nating the branches of the scapelike stem, erect, calyculate ; the 

 scales of the calyculus about 7, unequal, subglabrous, almost 

 continuous with the upper bracts and similar to them, half as 

 long as the involucral scales or shorter ; involucral scales uni- 

 seriate, 12, narrowly lanceolate-linear, obtuse, hispid and marked 

 with black glandular dots along the back, J in. long in fl^ower, 

 f in. long and thickened about the base in fruit, somewhat 

 concave by the inflection of the subscarious lateral margins; 

 flowers yellow ; achenes slender, slightly contracted towards the 

 base, beaked at the apex, ^ in. long including the beak, glabrous, 

 lO-ribbed ; the ribs minutely serrulate ; pappus whitish, ^ in. 

 long, half exserted ; receptacle at length naked punctulate and 

 exposed by the reflection of the involucre. 



Btjmbo. — In the wooded meadows of Catumba, rather rare ; fl. and 

 fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3667. 



This is nearly related to C. carhonaria Schnltz Bip., but the in- 

 florescence differs. 



2. C. ephemera Hiern, sp. n. 



A glabrous erect herb, 2^ to 3 ft. high or more ; root about \ in. 

 thick, firmly fleshy, elongated, apparently perennial; stems 

 solitary or two together, rigid, rather slender, sulcate, simple 

 below, straight or somewhat sinuous, branched above at the 

 inflorescence ; leaves mostly radical and rosulate, obovate, obtuse 

 at the apex wedge-shaped at the sessile or subsessUe almost 

 clasping base, toothed or remotely denticulate, thinly herbaceous. 



