COMrOSIT^E. 1(51 
In dry waste places, wall-tops, cultivated ground, &c. Very 
common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
A very variable plant, sometimes with a single erect stout 
copiously leafy stem 2 feet or more high; at other times, as when 
growing in dry situations, with numerous ascending stems 6 inches 
long, with very few leaves and divaricate peduncles ; but every 
intermediate form between these extremes may be found. An- 
thodes J to J inch aeross. Florets yellow. Achenes reddish-brown, 
distinctly attenuated at the top, but without any beak. Plant gla- 
brous or sub-glabrous ; the stem, midribs of the leaves, peduncles, 
and phyllaries being the only portions which are hairy. 
Smooth Ifawk's-beard. 
French, Crepide Verle. German, Griine Grund/este. 
SPECIES V — C REPIS BIENNIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCXIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1915. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXIX. 
Biennial. Stem stout, branched in the upper half, hairy, 
leafy. Leaves runcinate- and lyrate-pinnatifid, hairy. Anthodes 
erect in bud, in corymbs terminating the stem and branches. 
lVduncles moderately long, straight or nearly so, not thickened 
upwards. Phyllaries hairy, the hairs often intermingled with 
longer gland-tipped ones ; the inner phyllaries downy within ; 
exterior ones lax or spreading. Achenes not beaked, fusiform- 
cylindric, slightly attenuated towards the apex, with 13 slightly 
rugose ribs. Pappus of pure-white soft hairs, slightly exceeding 
the phyllaries. 
In chalky places, roadsides, and borders of fields. Local. 
Common in Kent, also in Surrey, Essex, Cambridge, and 
Leicestershire, and reported from other counties. It is, however, 
impossible to give the distribution of this species correctly, as it 
ba8 been so often confounded with C. taraxacifolia. 
England. Biennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Extremely like C. taraxacifolia, but a stouter plant, with the 
a rather less branched and much more leafy, the peduncles 
shorter and thicker, the anthodes larger, the achenes without a 
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