Genus 21. CHICORY FAMILY, 327 
5. Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr. Smooth Hawksbeard. Fig. 4090. 
Crepis polymorpha Wallr. Sched. Crit. 426. 1822. 
Crepis capillaris Wallr. Fl. Hereyn. 287. 1840. 
Annual; stem stout or slender, leafy, corym- 
bosely branched above, glabrous or somewhat 
hirsute below, 1°-24° high. Basal leaves spatu- 
late, pinnatifid, or dentate, sometimes 8’ long and 
2’ wide, narrowed into petioles; stem leaves lan- 
ceolate or oblong, clasping by a sagittate base, 
flat, the upper mostly very small and usually en- 
tire; heads numerous, 5-8” broad, slender-pedun- 
cled; peduncles glabrous or glandular; involucre 
oblong, more or less pubescent or glandular, 3-4” 
high, its principal bracts lanceolate, glabrous 
within, the outer mostly appressed; achenes 10- 
ribbed, smooth, slightly narrowed at both ends. 
In fields and waste. places, Connecticut, New York, 
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and in ballast about 
the seaports. Also on the Pacific Coast. Adventive 
from Europe. July—Sept. ; 
6. Crepis biénnis L. Rough Hawksbeard. 
Fig. 4091. 
Crepis biennis L. Sp. Pl. 807. 1753. 
' Biennial, or sometimes annual; stem pubescent 
or hirsute, leafy, at least below, branched above, 
2°-3° high. Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, usually 
hirsute, 2’-6’ long, oblong or spatulate, the lower 
and basal ones narrowed into petioles and some- 
times merely dentate, the uppermost lanceolate, 
clasping, their margins not revolute; heads sev-— 
eral, subcorymbose, 1-13’ broad; involucre canes- 
cent or pubescent, 4”-6” high, its principal bracts 
linear-lanceolate, downy within, the outer ones 
linear-oblong or lanceolate, spreading; achenes 
oblong, slightly narrowed above, 13-striate, gla- 
brous. 
In waste places, Vermont to Pennsylvania, Mich- 
igan, and in ballast about the seaports. Naturalized 
| or adventive from Europe. June—Aug. 
7. Crepis intermédia A. Gray. Small-flowered 
Gray Hawksbeard. Fig. 4092. 
Crepis intermedia A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 2, 432. 1884. 
Perennial, cinerous-puberulent or scurfy; stem rather 
slender, 1-3-leaved, 1°-2° high, naked and branched 
above. Basal leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
laciniate-pinnatifid, long-acuminate at the apex, nar- 
towed at the ‘base, 4’-6’ long; stem leaves lanceolate, 
sessile, less divided; heads several, 6-9” broad, 5-8- 
flowered; involucre oblong-campanulate, its principal 
bracts 5-8, lanceolate or linear-oblong, canescent, acut- 
ish, somewhat keeled by the thickened midrib when old, 
the outer ones few and short; achenes oblong, narrowed 
above, not beaked, strongly 10-ribbed. 
In dry soil, western Nebraska (according to Williams) ;- 
Colorado to California, Montana and British Columbia. 
May-Sept. 
