Crepis] lxxi. composite. 617 



1| to 2|- in. long by |- to 1 in. broad; stem-leaves alternate, 

 narrow, few, suberect; capitula campanulate in flower, hemi- 

 spherical in fruit, calyculate, ^ to f in. long, about 56-flowered,. 

 on rather slender pedicels ranging up to 2^ in. long, arranged in 

 a wide rather lax dichotomous terminal flat-topped terminal 

 cyme ; bracts small, lanceolate or subulate ; scales of the calyculus 

 small, about 10, resembling the uppermost bracteoles ; involucral 

 scales about 20, subequal, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 uniseriate with sometimes an extra interior one, inserted together 

 round the base of the receptacle, |- to ^ in. long, rather thickened 

 at the base, with scarious margins, reflected in fruit ; flowers 

 yellow ; receptacle somewhat foveolate with the edges of the 

 depressions toothed, without conspicuous scales, somewhat convex 

 in fruit ; corollas about ^ in. long, slender, glandular-hairy about 

 the lower part; achenes narrowly oblong, somewhat angular, 

 glabrous, ribbed, reddish-brown, minutely muriculate, a little 

 narrowed at the base, slightly contracted towards the truncate 

 apex, j^ in. long ; pappus pauciseriate, slightly straw-coloured, ^ in. 

 long, setose; the setse minutely scabrid. 



HuiLLA. — In bushy pastures from Perrao da Sola in the direction of 

 Nene ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3665. In the pastures of Lopollo 

 amongst low bushes, ephemeral ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3666. 



3. C. cichoriodes Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, hispidulous, robust herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the 

 habit of a Cichorium ; root rather thick, apparently biennial or 

 perennial ; stem solitary, simple up to the inflorescence, straight, 

 sulcate-striate, pallid and leafy at the base and on the lower 

 part, dichotomously branched and leafless at the upper part ;. 

 leaves alternate, mostly lyrate-pinnatifld, oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, rounded and apiculate at the apex, narrowed towards the 

 clasping often petiole-like base, thinly herbaceous, grey-green at 

 least beneath, scattered with short hispidulous hairs on the midrib 

 and veins, minutely aculeate-denticulate on the margin, 3 to 6 in. 

 long by J to 2i in. broad, the lobes obtuse, the upper leaves not 

 lobed ; capitula cylindrical, 9 or 10-flowered, homogamous,, 

 homocarpous, f in. long, on unequal pedicels ranging up to 

 f in. long, arranged in a rather open corymbose terminal 

 cyme about 6 in. in diameter ; involucral bracts imbricate, 

 pauciseriate, lanceolate or oblong, rather thin, obtuse, the 

 outer ones hispidulous along the middle of the back, the inner 

 ones about 12, thinner and longer, about |^ to -f in. long ; flowers 

 all ligulate, the ligules whitish or slightly purplish, 5-toothed 

 at the tip ; receptacle foveolate ; achenes ^ in. long, ellipsoidal 

 or ovoid-oblong, reddish brown, deeply sulcate, ribbed, angular, 

 almost alate, microscopically muriculate, narrowed at the apex 

 into a slender beak about half as long as itself ; pappus pilose, 

 1^ to ^ in. long, very soft, copious ; the setae pauciseriate, very- 

 slender, whitish, only microscopically barbellate. 



HuiLLA. — In meadows between Lopollo and the lake of Ivant&la, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. 4 Jan. 1860. No. 3653. 



