Crepis setosa, Haller fil.

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68. C. setosa Haller fil. , Arch. Bot. (Roemer) 1(2): 1 (1797).

Stems 8-80 cm, remotely branched. Leaves with pale eglandular hairs; basal up to 30x 8 cm, oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, denticulate to pinnatisect, narrowed below; cauline mostly lanceolate, auriculate-amplexicaul. Involucre 8-10 x 4-10 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, with pale, eglandular rigid hairs thickened at their base, the outer bracts up to | as long as inner. Style-branches dark green. Achenes 3-25-5 x 0-3-0-6 mm, uniform, fusiform, yellowish-brown, attenuate into a slender

beak, 10-ribbed. 2n = 6, 8. 5. á S. C. Europe. Al Au Bu Co Cz Ga Gr Hs Hu It Ju Rm Rs (K) Sa Tu [Ge He Po].

Plants from E. Greece with the involucre 7 x 4-5 mm, style-branches pale yellowish-green, achenes usually of 2 kinds (the marginal 3 x 0-5 mm, attenuate or with a small beak, the inner, or all when the achenes are uniform, 3-3-75 x 0-3-0-4 mm, attenuate into a very slender beak) have been described as subsp. topaliana Babcock , t/wiv. Calif. Pubi. Bot. 19: 403 (1941). Intermediates are frequent and the taxon is not obviously geographically or ecologically isolated, so it is best considered merely as a variety.

C. atheniensis Babcock , Univ. Calif Pubi. Bot. 22: 876 (1947) is known only from the type specimen, collected in S.E. Greece (near Athinai) in 1848, and possibly introduced there. It differs from 68 chiefly in having the involucre 10-14 mm, and the achenes 4-5-6-5 mm.