Hieracium.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 529 
or sprinkled with gland-tipped bristles near the summit and on the 
involucres; cauline leaves ear-clasping at base, sharply ciliate-toothed, 
polymorphous, either undivided, runcinate, lyrate or deeply pinnatifid ; 
inv. and pedicels glabrous or rarely glandular; inv. after flowering coni- 
cal, finally refiexed; achenes compressed or flattened, finely striate, 
longitudinally the tric rough or smooth. JZ. Bot. t. 843. 
Var. a, ciliatus; achenes compressed, narrowed to the base, finely multistriate, 
the striz cross-ridged. 8. ctliatus. Lam. DOC./ l. ¢. 185. 8S. oleraceus, a B., Linn. 
lc. 8. asper, Blackw. Herb. t. 30. S. wmbellifer, Th.! Cap. 614. 8S. zacinthoides, 
DC.! lic. 184, S. reversus, E, Mey.! DC. 1. c. 186. 
Var. §, fallax; achenes flattened, narrowed at base, with 3-5 subdistant, smooth 
striz on each face. S. fallax, Wallr. DC./ 1. ¢. 185. 8S. oleraceus, y. § 6., Linn. 
S. spinosus, Lam. S. glaber, Thunb.! Cap. 614. 
Has. A weed in cultivated ground throughout the Colony, introduced from 
Europe. (Herb. Th., D., Sd.) 
The common ‘ Sowthistle.” There are evidently two “‘races” of this plant. known 
by the characters of fruit above described; but they grow often intermixed, nor is 
there any permanent character of ee to ‘distinguish teas I therefore perfer to 
leave the species as Linnzeus had it. 
CLL HIERACIUM, L. 
Heads many-fl. nv. ovate, often cylindrical, composed of linear 
obtuse, often acuminated, rarely 2-ranked, commonly multiseriate, im- 
bricated scales. ecept. nude, areolate, the areoles pentagonal, often 
with a minutely fimbriate margin. <Achenes 5-angled, substriate, mostly 
clavate, beakless or nearly so; or oblong or fusiform. Pappus persistent, 
uniseriate, simple, sessile, often dirty-whiteish, the bristles rigid, scabrid. 
DO. Prodr. 7, p. 199. 
A vast, cosmopolitan genus; very few from the Southern hemisphere. Perennial, 
caulescent herbs, with alternate leaves, variously pubescent; the hairs often glandu- 
lar or stellate. Name from lepat, a hawk ; **Hawk weed.” Engl. 
= leaves obovate- obtuse ; ‘stem and pedicels glabrous ; 
powdery .. ... (1) Capense. 
Root ives nosis aut; — pedicels and inv, gland- 
hispid ‘ee : wt oe eas Sep pelea: 
1. H. Capense (Linn. imenine p. oe stem nearly a scape- 
like, glabrous, striate, panicled or racemoso-corymbose at the summit ; 
radical leaves rosulate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, toothed, denticulate, or 
subentire, on both sides sparsely pubescent ; cauline leaves reduced to 
scales ; pedicels elongate, straight, alternate ; ; inv. sc. subtomentose 
at base, se. thinly powdery, in few rows, linear, very acute; ligules 
pubescent externally ; achenes cylindrical ; ; pappus dirty-white. DC. 
i. c. 218. Fries, Emer. Hier. 141. Crepis striata, Th.! Cap. 613. Pi- 
cris striata, Spr. Syst. 3, 264. Schmidtia Capensis, Retchb. 
Var. 8. microcephala; rad. Ivs. quite glabrous, lanceolate, entire; stem very 
much branched ; heads 4 ‘smaller ; achenes delicately striate. 
Has. Cape, Thunherg! About Table Mt., especially the East side, and at New- 
lands, fi wobile £E.§ 2.1 WHA, &e. Drakensteinberg, Drege! Zwartkops R., rc. fe i 
3082. Slaayekraal, Burke’ Grahamstown, H. Hutton! Br. Kaffraria, Cooper 
149. Natal, Krauss! 345. Gerr. dé McK./ 310. Van. B. Magalisberg, Zey! Saag 
(Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
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