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smaller upwards, cordate-acute on the barren shoots. Heads 

 small, many. Fl. blue. — Clova Mountains. P. VIII. S. 



F. Receptacle generally without scales. Pappus filiform, iiever 

 feathery nor dilated at the base. Fruit terete, ribbed. 



46. Cke'pis Linn. Hawk's-beard. 



* Fruit with a long subulate beak. Baekhausia Moenob, 



1. C. taraxacifdlia (Thuil.) ; 1. rough runcinate-pmnatifid, 

 buds erect, ine. bristly and downy covering half the pappus, 

 outer phyll. lanceolate with a membranous margin, bracts her- 

 baceous, fr. all equally beaked. — F. B. S. 2929. — St. 1 — 2 feet 

 high, hispid, angular, furrowed, purple below, at length branched, 

 corymbose. L. mostly radical lyrate-runcinate with backward 

 teeth or deeply pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large. Stem-1. 

 few, sessile, clasping, deeply pinnatifid and toothed. Fl. yellow, 

 purple beneath. Fr. narrowing very gradually into a setaceous 

 beak of about its own length, ribs rough. — Limestone districts, 

 B. VI. VII. E. 



2. C. fm'tida (L.) ; 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 

 buds nodding, inv. hairy and downy, outer phyll. lanceolate 

 acute downy, marginal fr. slightly beaked shorter than the inv., 

 central fr. with long bealis equalling inv., pappits protruding. — 

 E. B. 406. — St. 6 — 12 in. high, hairy, round, branched. L. 

 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 ft. rough. — Ohalky places, rare. B. VI. 

 VII. E. 



[C setdsa (HaU."); 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 phyll. and the bracts and the back of the inner phyU. 

 and the ped. hispid with rigid simple bristles. — E. B. S. 2945. 

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

 clasping. — Fields. Introduced with seed. A. VII. VUI.] E. 



** Fruit narrowed uptcards err obscurely beaked. Pappus silky. 

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



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

 brous within, 1. lanceolate remotely dentate rimcinate or piima- 

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



