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CR E P IS pulchra.
Small-jlowered Hawks-beard.
3 8.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-cequalis.
G en. Char. Recept, roughish. Cal. surrounded with
deciduous scales, and at length swelling into protuberances.
Down simple, generally on a footstalk.
Spec. Char. Leaves downy, toothed ; those on thé
stem somewhat arrow-shaped. Stem panicled,
corymbose. Calyx pyramidal, smooth.
Syn. Crepis pulchra. IAnn. Sp. PI. 1134. Sm. Tr.of
Linn. Soc. |. 10. 344. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3'. 128.
Hieracium pulchrum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1025.
H. montanum alterum, leptomacrocaulon. Column.
Ecphr. 248. t. 249.
Lapsana choudrilloides. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. 1. 812.
W E very mnch doubt whether this plant has been seen by
any English botanist of our times, though admitted into thé
first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, as having been cultivated
by Rand in 1739 at Chelsea. Mr. G. Don found it wild in
1796,"amongst crumbling rocks on the hill of Turin, near Forfar,
and from seed communicated by him our specimen was
raised. It is annual, flowering from June to September, and
varying much in luxuriance according to the soil.
The root is small, taper, branching. Stem erect, downy,
slender, round, hollow, panicled in a corymbose form at the
top. Radical leaves obovate, thin, downy, toothed most in
their lower part; the rest few, small, arrow-shaped, clasping
the stem with their toothed base. Flowers small, yellow, closing
about noon; their anthers and stigmas brownish. The
scales at the-base of the calyx are not deciduous. The down
of the seed is nearly sessile, very slender, minutely toothed.