CREPIS, in botany, a genus of the syngenesia polygamia æqualis class. The receptacle is naked; the calyx is caliculated, with deciduous scales; and the pappus is plumose, and furnished with a stipes. The species are fourteen, three of which are natives of Britain, viz. the tectorum, or smooth succory hawk-weed; the biennis, or rough succory hawk-weed; and the foetida, or stinking hawk-weed.