CREPIS taraxacifolia.
Smaller Rough IJawk's-beard.
SYNGENESIA YEqualis.
G en. Char. Involucre double ; inner of one row;
outer of short lax scales ,- rarely imbricate. Receptacle
naked or fimbriated. Florets all ligu-
late and perfect. Fruit terete, narrowed upwards
or beaked. Pappus in several rows, hair-like,
deciduous, white.
Spec. Char. Leaves rough, runcinate-pinnatifid.
Heads erect. Involucre bristly and downy,
covering half the pappus of the fruit; outer
scales ovate-lanceolate with a membranous
margin. Bracts herbaceous, linear. Fruits all
equally contracted into a long beak.
Syn. Crepis taraxacifolia. Thuil. FI. Par. ed:,\.v. 1.
409. Koch Syn. FI. Germ. ed. 2. 501. Bab.
Man. ed. 2. 191.
Barkhausia taraxacifolia. DeCand. FI. Franc, ed.
3. n. 2949. Prod. v. 7. 154. Reich. FI. Germ.
Exes. 256. Koch Syn. FI. Germ. ed. 1. 436.
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 1. 179. Coss. et Germ.
FI. Paris. 438. Godron FI. Lorr. v. 2. 84.
N O modern representation of this plant exists, and it is
remarkable that, with the exception of our t. 194, no plate of
Crepis biennis is noticed by authors. Unfortunately that figure
(,t. 194) is much less perfect than we could wish; indeed the
ripe fruit there figured seems to belong to our present subject,