CREPIS. 
DOi 
linear or ligulato-acuminate angulato-cordate or dilatato-sub- 
auriculate at the base ; fl. numerous in terminal and lateral 
divaricately branched broad lax ample cymes, pale lemon-y. ; 
heads mostly small or narrow and of somewhat few lax florets 
with the ligules often elongate and loosely spreading or sub- 
pendulous ; ped. compressed at top with often 1 or 2 linear 
bractlets ; scales of calycle short erect about j length of inner, 
the ped. upwards and all the scales of inv. either hispid more 
or less with short black patent setules and w. cottony mealy 
pubescence or thickly shaggy-hirsute with long black or brown 
bristly hairs, quite smooth (not silky- w.) inside ; ach. Very dark 
brown elongated slender produced into a rather short or thickish 
beak much shorter than themselves, strongly ribbed, the ribs 
or their interstices finely crenulate ; pappus short copious silkv- 
w. not exserted beyond the tips of the inner scales of the pe- 
ricline. — Herb. bien. Mad. reg. 1-3, l. May-Oct. 
a. Icevigata ; heads and ped. glabrescent or sparingly hispid, 
sometimes nearly smooth and naked ; fits, few lax with elon- 
gate subpendulous ligules. — Barkhausia hieracioides a , [3 Prim. 
27. no. 44; 140. ! vii. 157. Crepis auriculata Sol.! in Ell. ; 
Bucli ! 194. no. 224. — Mad. reg. 1, all along the N. coast from 
the Entrosa to Seixal, especially on wet banks and dripping 
rocks by waterfalls on the sea-cliffs at the Passo d’Area and 
between the Rib. do Inferno and Seixal. — A mere local form 
of /3 due to excessive moisture, with the foliage sometimes 
altogether smooth. 
(3. nigricans ; heads and ped. densely hispid with black se- 
tules ; fits, somewhat more close and numerous with the li- 
gules less produced. — Barkhausia dubia Prim. 27. no. 45; 1)C. ! 
vii. 157. — Mad. reg. 3, in most of the ravines of the N. above 
2000 ft., e. g. in the Boa Ventura all about and below the 
Boca das Torrinhas; all down the Volta s from the Cruzinhas 
to Seixal; at the Raba^al ; head of the Rib. de Joao Del- 
gada ; Rib. de S. Jorge, da Metade, &c. The usual mountain 
and probably normal form of the sp. 
y. crinita ; heads and ped. thickly shaggy-hirsute or bearded 
with copious long brown or blackish hairs ; heads larger than 
in a and [3. — Barkhausia comata Prim. 27. no. 40 ; 1)C. ! vii. 
157. Crepis comata Sol. ! MSS- in BH. — Mad. reg. 3, rrr, an 
odd pi. only occasionally here and there ; Boca das Torrinhas 
with /3 ; “ a single pi. on a very dry rock on the Encumeada 
alta, Pico Ruivo and Pico do Areeiro,” S r Moniz. Merely an 
extreme or perhaps monstrously developed state of /if. 
'flic discovery of numerous intermediate forms necessitates 
the fusion even of Solander’s pi., together with my own two 
former sp., into one — though the shaggy bearded involucrnl 
