Crepis chondrilloides, Jacq

26. C. chondrilloides Jacq View in CoL ,. Enum. Stirp. Vindob. 312 (1762).

Perennial; stems 15-55 cm, with a few branches from the middle or below. Leaves glabrous or with simple eglandular or glandular hairs; basal 6-16 x 1 - 5-5 cm, numerous and forming a dense rosette, oblanceolate, pinnatisect into very numerous, more or less narrowly linear, entire or 1 -toothed segments; lower cauline like the basal; upper cauline reduced to the narrow rhachis or bractlike. Capitula few. Involucre 11-14 x 6-10 mm; bracts linearlanceolate, acute, the outer as long as inner, canescenttomentose, the inner often with yellow or black, simple eglandular hairs, with or without glandular hairs. Achenes 5-7 x 0-7-0-9 mm, more or less brown, fusiform, strongly attenuate at apex and sometimes with a short, coarse beak, 14- to 18-ribbed. 2л = 8. Stony pastures; calcicele. • N.E. Italy; W. Jugoslavia. ItJu.