which was confounded with C. biennis by Smith. We now
give figures (5) of the unripe and ripe fruit of C. biennis to
contrast with that of C. taraxacifolia.
Root fusiform, biennial. Stem 1-2 feet high, erect, generally
simple below, usually coloured reddish purple, especially
at the base, hispid, branched above. Leaves clothed with
rigid hairs, mostly radical, stalked, lyrate-runcinate or pinna-
tifid with the terminal lobe very large; lower stem leaves run-
cinate-pinnatifid, sessile, with numerous closely-placed narrow
lobes at the base; upper leaves linear-lanceolate with linear
lobes below. Heads in an irregular corymb, erect. Involucre
of two rows of bracts ; inner row bristly and downy, longer
than the ripe fruit and covering the lower half of its pappus,
silky on the inner side; the outer row much shorter than the
inner, lax, pale brown, nearly glabrous, broadly scarious at
the edges. Florets yellow, tinged with red externally. Fruits
all narrowing very gradually into slender beaks of about their
own length, the ribs rough. Pappus white and soft, about as
long as the fruit.
Crepis taraxacifolia is probably a more common plant in
England than C. biennis; it inhabits limestone districts and is
more especially abundant in Kent. The specimen figured was
gathered^ at Hythe on the 23rd of July 1845, by Messrs.
Forster and Borrer. In many collections this plant will be
found preserved under the name of C. biennis, with which it
was confounded by British botanists until the difference between
them was pointed out by Mr. Joseph Woods.—C. C. B.