# 58 [Crepis biennis L. G 870, Bv/Bl/III 327] New to Nfld. 7-27-29 Compositae - Liguliflorae Full fl. Field at mouth Throat Blk. 3 ft in high. St. be- low more or less distinctly purple striped, the lower bin. mostly purplish (or reddish.) Ridged & more or less rough three-out but never with the stellate hairs) Hieracium Canadense (27-28-29). 1ft to top. Low all narrow runcinate, pinnatifid. Basal & lower st-lvs. on long petioles, the upper sessile but hardly, if at all, cleaving. Basal lvs(with petioles) to 7½ in. St. lvs bare & tip progressively (upward) very narrowly elongated. Lvs lacerate below, esp. or veins, almost glabrous above. Infl. Comprombly paniculate. Heads yellow 1/2 in across. Invol. ½ in high. Principal series 1, bracts appressed linear, with thick bases pubescent outside, rosy green colored outside with thick dark hairs from base to about the middle. These bracts sur- rounded at base with bracts about 1/2 as long, spreading esp. after anthesis. These shorter bracts similar to the others but without any of the thick hairs or without thickened bases. Achenes (fs. young) cylindrical, beardless, not conspicu- ously narrowed at either end, glabrous, ridged (12-13 ridges counted) the ridges minutely papillose. Pappus white (a.T.S.), not esp. copious, denticulate but less so than in Hieracium Canadense. Root stock thickish, about ¾ in long. Receptacle flat, min- utely fimbriate. Bv/Bl Crepis biennis L. G 870