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45. COMPOSITiE. 
F. Receptacle generally without scales. Pappm filiform, never 
feathery nor dilated at the base. Fruit terete, ribbed. 
46. Cre'pis Linn. Hawk's-beard. 
* Fruit with a long subulate beak. Baekhausia Moench. 
1. C. taraxacifolia (Thuill.) ; 1. rough runcinate-pinnatifid, 
buds erect, inv. bristly and downy covering half the pappus, 
outer phyll. lanceolate with a membranous margin, bracts her- 
baceous, /r. all equally beaked. — E. 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. I. 
2. C.foe'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. vjith long beaks equalling inv., jmppus 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 phyll. at length much thickened and 
hardened. Kibs of the fr. rough. Chalky places, rare. B. VI. 
VII. E. 
[C. seiJsa (Hall, fil.); 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 phyll. 
and the ped. hispid with rigid simple bristles. — E. B. S. 2945.— 
Plant 1 — 2 feet high. Stem-l.large, rather strapshaped, clasping. 
—Fields. Introduced with seed. A. VII. VIII.] E. I. 
** Fruit narroined upnurds or obscurely beaked. Pappus silky. 
[C. pul'chra (L.), E. B. 2325, was probably an error.] 
3. C. capilldris (Wallr. em. Rend, k Br.) ; outer phyll. ad- 
pressed linear, irmer ones glabrous within, I. lanceolate re- 
motely dentate runcinate or pinnatifid, uppermost I. linear- 
arrowshaped clasping with flat t/iargins, st. subcorymbose. 
