COMPOSITE. 



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cise geographical limits are indeed not 

 well ascertained, as it is often confounded 

 with the common smooth C. or with the 

 beaked C, but I have seen true speci- 

 mens from the central and eastern coun- 

 ties of England. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 591. 



5. Hawkweed Crepis. Crepis hieracioid.es, Jacq. 



(Fig. 592.) 



(C. succiscefolia, Brit. Fl. Hieracium molle, Eog. Bot. t. 2210.) 



Like the marsh C, this has much the 

 habit of a HaioTciveed, but the pappus is 

 white and soft, as in Crepis. It is an 

 erect, scarcely branched perennial, a 

 foot high or rather more, glabrous or 

 slightly hairy. Leaves entire or with a 

 few minute teeth ; the radical and lower 

 ones obovate- oblong, on long stalks ; the 

 upper ones few, narrow, and clasping 

 the stem. Flower-heads few, in a loose 

 corymb, like those of the marsh C, but 

 the achenes are finely striate, with about 

 20 ribs. 



In meadows and pastures, chiefly in 

 mountain districts, all across central 

 Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Rus- 

 sian frontier, not extending into Scandi- 

 navia. In Britain, in a few localities in 

 southern Scotland, in northern England 

 and in Ireland. FL summer and autumn. 



Fig. 592. 



