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45. COMPOSITE. 
Sm., E. B. 2425.— St. 3 feet high, glabrous below, leafy. I-. 
gradually smaller upwards, cordate acute on the barren shoots. 
Heads small, many. Fl. blue. — Glova Moimtains. P. VIII. S. 
F. Recepiacle generally without scales. Papptis filiform, never 
feathery nor dilated at the base. Fruit terete, i-ihhed. 
45. Cee'pis Linn. Hawk's-beard. 
* F)-uit with a long subulate beak. Bahkhausia Moench. 
1. C. taraxacifolia (Thuil.) ; 1. rough runcinate-pinnatifid, 
buds erect, involucre bristly and downy covcinng 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, angidar, furrowed, piu'ple below, at length branched, 
corjTubose. L. mostly radical lyrate-rimcinate with bacliward 
teeth, or deeply pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large. Stem-1. 
few^ sessile, clasping, deeply pinnatifid and toothed. Fl. yellow, 
Eui-ple beneath. Fr. narrowing very gradufilly into a setaceous 
eak of about its own length, ribs rough. — Limestone districts. 
B. VI. VII. . E. 
[ C. set6sa (HaU.) ; 1. nmeinate-dentate or l}Tate-runcinate, 
st.-l. sagittate entire or incise-dentate below, buds erect, inv. 
not quite covering thej}a])pus, margin of the outer lanceolate acute 
phyll. and the bracts the back of the inner phyll. and the ped. 
hispid with rigid simple bristles. — E. B. S. 2945. — ^Plant 1—2 
feet high. Stem-1. large, rather strapshaped, clasping. — Fields. 
Introduced with seed. A, VII. VIII.] R 
. 2. C. fw'tida (L.) ; 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 
buds noddiug, involucre hairy and downy, outer phyll. lanceo- 
late acute downy, marginal fr. slightly beaked shorter than the in- 
oolucre, central ones with long beaks equalling it and protruding the 
pappus. — E. B. 400. — St. G — 12 in. high, hairy, round, branched. 
L. mostly radical ; stem-1. few, small, lanceolate, deeply toothed 
at the base, sessile. Heads solitaiy, terminal, on long simple 
stalk.s. Midrib of the phyll. at length much thickened and 
hardened. Ribs of the fr. rough. — Chalky places, rare. B. V^T. 
VII. E. 
* * Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely beaked. 
\_C. pul'chra (L.); outer phyll. ovate short adpressed, 1. downy 
toothed, stcm-1. aiTOwshaped clasping, panicle corymbose, 
abotd as long as the pappus obscurely striate slightly naiTowed 
upwards. — E. B. 2325. — St. erect, downy. Lower 1. obovate, 
runciiiati'lv toothed ; stoni-1. small. Heads small ; fl. yellow. — 
" HiU of turiu near Forfar." 3L: G. Don. A. VI.— fX.J S. 
3. C. virens (L.) ; outer phyll. adpressed linear inner ones gla- 
