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THE COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



6. Marsh Crepis. Crepis paludosa, Moench. (Fig. 593.) 



{Hieraciiun, Eng. Bot. t. 1094.) 



This species has almost as much the 

 habit and characters of Hawlcweed, with 

 which Linnsous associated it, as of Crepis, 

 to which it is referred by modern bo- 

 tanists. It is an erect, scarcely branched 

 perennial, but of short duration, and 

 nearly glabrous, 1 to 2 feet high. Ra- 

 dical leaves ovate, coarsely toothed, with 

 a few small lobes along the stalk; the 

 stem-leaves from broadly oblong to 

 lanceolate, pointed, toothed, especially 

 in the lower part, and clasping the stem 

 by rather large, pointed auricles. Flower- 

 heads yellow, rather large, in corymbs 

 of 8 or 10 ; the involucres more or less 

 hairy, with black, spreading hairs. The 

 pappus is of a dirty white, almost like 

 that of a Hawlcweed, but the achenes are 

 distinctly contracted at the top as in 

 ^' ' Crepis, and marked with 10 ribs or striae. 



In moist, shady situations, in northern Europe, and all across Rus- 

 sian Asia, becoming a mountain plant in southern Europe. Extends 

 all over Scotland, and southward into the central counties of England, 

 and into South Wales, and is not rare in Ireland. Fl. summer and 

 autumn. 



XXXVII. HAWKWEED. HIERACIUM. 



Herbs, with a perennial stock, entire or toothed leaves, and yellow 

 or rarely orange-red flower-heads, either on leafless radical peduncles, 

 or in terminal corymbs or panicles on leafy stems. Involucre more 

 or less imbricated. Receptacle without scales. Achenes angular or 

 striated, not narrowed at the top ; with a pappus of simple, generally 

 stiff hairs, of a tawny- white or brownish colour. 



A rather numerous European and north Asiatic genus, with a few 

 American species, very nearly allied to Crepis, but the achenes are not 

 perceptibly contracted at the top, and the hairs of the pappus are 



