COMPOSITE. 



491 



coarsely toothedlobe,andsmall ones along 

 the stalk. Stems erect, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 bearing a few small, narrow leaves. 

 Flower-heads smaller than in the fetid 

 C, forming a loose, terminal, flat corymb. 

 Involucres scarcely hairy, the outer 

 bracts much shorter than the inner ones, 

 lanceolate, and more or less membranous 

 and whitish on the edges. Achenes all 

 terminated by a slender beak about the 

 length of the achene itself. 



In rather dry pastures, and waste 

 places, in central and especially southern 

 Europe, and eastward to the Caucasus, 

 not extending into northern Germany. 

 In Britain, chiefly in limestone districts 

 of southern England and Ireland ; ra- 

 ther more frequent than the fetid C, 

 but appears to have been frequently con- 

 founded with that plant or with the 

 rough C. Fl. summer. 



2. Fetid Crepis. Crepis foetida, Linn, 



(Eng. Bot. t. 406. BorcJchausia, Brit 

 A slightly hairy annual or biennial, 

 seldom a foot high, with a few spreading 

 branches. Badical leaves irregularly 

 pinnatifid, with short lobes, the termi- 

 nal one varying from broadly triangu- 

 lar to narrow- oblong ; the stem-leaves 

 narrow, the lower slightly pinnatifid, the 

 upper entire or toothed. Flower-heads 

 few, on long peduncles, usually recurved 

 after flowering. Involucres hairy, the 

 outer bracts small, and very narrow. 

 The beak of the outer achenes is very 

 short, often scarcely distinct, whilst that 

 of the inner ones is long and slender, 

 carrying up the whole pappus above the 

 tips of the involucral bracts. 



In rather dry pastures, and waste 

 places, in southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, becomes rare further north. In 

 Britain only in some of the southern and 

 eastern counties of England. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 588. 



(Fig 

 Fl.) 



589.) 



Fig. 5S9. 



