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XLVI. composite: CICHORACE^E. [ Crepis . 
10. Crepis Linn. Hawk’s-beard. 
Achenes terete or angled, narrower upwards or obscurely 
beaked, striate. Pappus pilose, copious, soft, mostly white, 
deciduous. Recept. naked. Invol. scaly at the base. — Name : 
given by Pliny to some plant, from Kpij-mc, a sandal; which the 
leaves were supposed to resemble. 
1. C. virens L. (smooth H .) ; leaves glabrous runcinate or 
pinnatifid, the upper ones linear sagittate amplexicaul, the 
margins plain remotely toothed, stem glabrous, panicle sub- 
corymbose, outer invoiucral scales adpressed linear, inner ones 
glabrous within, fruit, oblong slightly narrower upwards with 
smooth ribs shorter than the pappus. C. tectorum Sm. : E. 
B. t. mi. 
Dry pastures, roofs of cottages, &c. ©. 6 — 9. — Stems 1 — S ft, 
high. Radical leaves more or less pinnatifid or runcinate, their teeth 
or segments often horizontal, sometimes curved upwards. Flowers 
small, yellow. Pappus about as long as the involucre, which is at 
length ovate and ribbed. 
2. C. biennis L. (rough II.) ; leaves rough runcinato-pin- 
natifid, uppermost lanceolate amplexicaul dentato-pinnatifid, 
panicle subcorymbose, involucre downy, outer scales oblong- 
linear lax, inner ones downy within, fruit oblong with smooth 
ribs narrower upwards longer than the pappus. E. B. S. 
t, 2929. fig. b. 
Chalky pastures in England, rare. Littlebury, near Saffron- 
Walden, Essex: not uncommon in South Kent; Twycross, Leicester- 
shire ; and Cambridgeshire. S • 6, 7. — Stems 2 — 4 ft. high, furrowed, 
rough above. Flowers much larger than in the preceding. Involucre 
about as long as the pappus, outer scales almost glabrous. Pappus 
very white, and upon a. fruit so attenuated upwards as to form a stalk. 
3. C. *pulchra L. (small-flowered H.) ; leaves downy toothed, 
radical ones oblong-ovate, the rest sagittato-amplexicaul, 
panicle corymbose spreading, achenes very obscurely striate 
about as long as the pappus, involucre glabrous, outer scales 
ovate minute adpressed. E. B. t. 2325. 
“ Among the debris of the rocks on the hills of Turin and Pitsandy,” 
npar Forfar, Scotland ; “ but very rare.” — G. Don. (Not found there 
by any other person.) 0. 6 — 9. — Root leaves tapering into a foot- 
stalk ; cauline ones broad, clasping the stem with their toothed bases. 
The very few specimens from Don, which we have seen, are more 
luxuriant than Smith’s acknowledged cultivated one, from which the 
figure in E. Bot. was made. 
4. C. succisafulia Tausch (Succory -leaved II.) ; leaves oblong- 
obtuse nearly quite entire the lower ones attenuated into a 
petiole, upper ones sessile and somewhat amplexicaul, stem tall 
panicled upwards, peduncle and involucres glandular-hairy, the 
