Picris. | COMPOSITAE. 1029 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 165; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii (1866) 678; T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 357; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 385. P. attenuata 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 435. 
North Istanp: Formerly not uncommon in open places from the North Cape to 
the Upper Thames and Waikato, but now much scarcer. SouTH Isntanp: Nelson— 
Foxhill, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Broken River basin, 7. F. C. Sea-leve! to 2500 ft. 
August—December. 
. CREPIS Linn. | 73 7 
Annual er perennial nance’ or rarely scapigerous herbs, juice milky. 
Leaves radical or alternate, entire or toothed or pinnatifid. Heads 
peduneled, solitary or panicled or corymbose, | cllow or red, homogamous. 
Involucre campanulate or cylindric; bracts many, linear, equal, with a 
few smaller ones at their base. Receptacle flat or slightly concave, naked 
or fimbrillate. Florets all ligulate. Achenes linear-oblong, 10—20-ribbed, 
narrowed or beaked at the tip. Pappus short or long, usually copious ; 
hairs soft, white, simple. 
A large genus, containing about 130 species, most abundant in the temperate regions 
of the Northern Hemisphere, but extending also into subtropical districts. The single 
New Zealand species is a somewhat anomalous member of the genus; it was referred 
to Hieracium by Banks and Solander, to Crepis by Hooker, and to Sonchus in the 
“Genera Plantarum.” 
1. C. novae-zedlandiae Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 164.—A small 
scapigerous herb 2-8 in. high, either glabrous or the involueres and seapes, 
rarely the leaves, white and tomentose; root stout, fleshy. Leaves all 
radical, spreading, crowded, glaucous, 2-6 in. long, narrow lnear-oblong or 
linear-obovate, deeply and unequally lobed or pinnatifid, the terminal — 
segment large, rounded, lateral much smaller, entire or toothed. Scape 
slender, longer than the leaves, glabrous or tomentose, often studded with 
black glandular hairs. Head solitary, $}-lin. diam.; involucral bracts 
broadest at the base, gradually narrowed into obtuse black tips, glabrous 
or cottony and sparsely covered with black glandular hairs. Achene 
linear-oblong, glabrous, compressed, ribbed. Pappus-hairs copious, very 
soft, white-—Lindsay Contrib. N.Z. Bot. (1868) 54, t. 3; T. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 359; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 386. 
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SoutH Istanp : Not uncommon in mountain districts on the east side of the Island, 
from Marlborough to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 3000 ft. January—February. 
29. TARAXACUM Linn.) § => = 
Small scapigerous perennial herbs with milky juice. Root perpendicular, 
neck ringed with the remains of the old leaves, glabrous or more or less 
clothed with long woolly hairs. Leaves all radical, rosulate, herbaceous 
or succulent or almost coriaceous, narrowed at the base, entire or sinuate 
or runcinate-pinnatifid. Scapes 1 or more from the head of the root, 
leafless or in some species bearing small scales. Heads solitary, always 
erect, many-flowered, homogamous. Involucre campanulate or oblong ; 
bracts herbaceous ; inner in | series, equal, erect ; outer in several series, 
smaller, often recurved. Receptacle flat, naked, Florets all ligulate. 
