several British Specks of Hieracium. 227 



of stolonibus for stolone, and the addition of its trivial name dm* 

 bium, such names having been first used by Linnaeus in the last- 

 mentioned work. Now this definition. accords well with II. du- 

 bium of Fl. Brit., (the H. Auricula of Fl. Ban.) whose leaves are 

 obovate as in H. Pilosella, and almost, if not perfectly, entire, 

 that is, free from teeth or serratures. At this time Linnaeus had 

 not contrived the term obovate, neither had he confined the 

 words folia Integra to undivided leaves, a\ ithout respect to their 

 margin. Four synonyms are subjoined in the Flora Suecica, 

 which I shall now examine. 



1. Hieracium foliis virentibus pilosis ovato lanceolatis, scapo sim- 

 plici multifloro. Mallet Helv. (1st edition), 743. This author 

 mentions the leaves being " ciliated, as it were, at their foot- 

 stalk (or base), and that the flowers are sulphur-coloured." He 

 quotes TabernaemontanuVs Pilosella major prima, Ic. 196, and the 

 synonym of Vaillant hereafter mentioned, besides others, all which 

 circumstances leave no doubt of his plant being my dubium. 

 This plant of Haller is the No. 53 of his 2d edition and of his 

 Nomenclator, and what I have as such from Reynier and Davall 

 is my dubium; but I must not conceal that Linnaeus has written 

 " Pilosella Auricula" in the margin of his copy of Hatter's 1st 

 edition. 



2. Hieracium piloselloides vulgare. Vaillant Mem. de V Acad, 

 des Sciences, for 1721, species 1. This is said in his Botanicon 

 Parisieme, 101, to have its flowers lemon-coloured on both sides, 

 and sometimes 4 or 5 on a stalk. No other decisive information 

 is to be obtained from this author. In the German edition of 

 his Memoire, which is the only one now within my reach, Lin- 

 naeus has written " Hieracium dubium" in the margin, so that 

 his opinion here exactly neutralizes the note in his Haller. and 



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