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C R E P I S biennis.
f o .
Rough Succory HawkweeJ.
S T N G E N E S I A Polygamia-equalis,
G en. Char. Receyt. naked. Calyx {unrounded with
deciduous fcales. Down Ample, generally on a
footftalk.
Spec. Char. Leaves runcinato-pinnatifid, rough,
furnifhed at the bafe with teeth pointing upwards.
Calyx briftly.
Syn . Crepis biennis. Linn. Sp. PI. 1136. Relh. Cant.
296. With. Bot. Arr. 833.
Hedypnois biennis. HudJ. FI. An. 342.
Hieracium maximum Chondrillae folio afperum.
Rail Syn. 166.
F O U N D in a chalky foil, and communicated from near
Bury by William Mathew Efq. The root is biennial, fpindle-
{haped, flowering about June or July of the fecond year. Stem
ered, three or four feet high or more, angular, rough, leafy,
branched in the upper part, often purplifh below. Radical
leaves feveral, on long purplifh footftalks, obovate, lyrato-den-
tate ; thofe on the lower part of the Item runcinate, with
many fmall (harp fcattered teeth ; the uppermoft leaves more
deeply pinnatifid, feffile, dilated and half embracing the ftem
at their bafe, with feveral {harp afcending teeth. All the
leaves are rough, efpecially their mid-ribs beneath, with projecting
briftles. Many alternate flower-ftalks terminate the
ftem, the lowermoft branched, making a fort of corymbus,
each with a linear leaf at its bafe. The external calyx is lax,
fomewhat membranous in the margin, {lightly briftly on the
back, and half as long as the inner one, which is ereCt, more
briftly on the back, and woolly at the bafe. The corolla is externally
reddifh. Florets 5-toothed, doling in the afternoon.
Styles brownifh. Seeds ftriated, and fo much lengthened out
into a beak that the down may almoft be called ftipitate. This
down appears rough when highly magnified— Sometimes, as
Dr. Stokes well remarks, the calyx is fmooth or nearly fo,
which is partly the cafe in Linnaeus’s own Scanian fpecimens.