COMPOSITE. 1G3 
Sub-Genus III.— ARACIUM. Honn. 
Acliencs not beaked, cylindrical, scarcely attenuated towards 
the apex. Pappus of stiff brittle yellowish- white hairs. 
SPECIES VII.— C REPIS PALUDOSA. Mdnch. 
Plate DCOCXXI. 
JH/fot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 411. 
Beiek Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLXIII. 
llieracium paludosum, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1094. 
Soyeria paludosa, Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 342 
Perennial. Stem rather slender, branched only above, glabrous, 
leafy. Lower leaves elliptical or oval, oblanceolate, attenuated 
into a short winged petiole ; middle stem-leaves panduriform, 
oval- or elliptical - acuminate, amplexicaul ; upper leaves ovate- 
lanceolate - acuminate, amplexicaul, with blunt abruptly acumi- 
nated auricles ; all glabrous, dentate or runcinate-dentate. An- 
thodes few, in a corymb terminating the stem. Peduncles 
moderately long, nearly straight, not thickened upwards. Phyl- 
laries woolly, with numerous black gland - tipped hairs ; the 
exterior ones very short, adpressed. Achenes not beaked, cylin- 
drical, not attenuated either towards the base or apex, 10-ribbed. 
Pappus of yellowish-white stiff fragile hairs, slightly exceeding the 
phyllaries. 
In damp shady places and woods, and by the sides of streams. 
Not uncommon in mountainous districts. Prom Glamorganshire, 
Shropshire, Leicestershire, and Yorkshire, northward to Ross and 
Aberdeen. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem erect, striate, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves variable in the 
depth of the dentition ; the lower ones generally with the teeth 
most prominent ; the upper ones usually entire, except at the base ; 
all except the lowest amplexicaul. Phyllaries black from the 
abundance of gland-tipped hairs. Florets yellow. Achenes olive, 
perfectly cylindrical (in all the specimens I have examined). Plant 
glabrous. 
A very puzzling plant, agreeing in habit with Crepis, in which 
it is generally placed by modern authors, but differing in its achenes 
not being attenuated towards the apex, and the pappus being 
yellowish-white, and composed of brittle hairs, in which points it 
approaches llieracium, in which genus it was placed by Linnams. It 
