242 Dr. Smith's Observations respecting 



botanists, which Dillenius and Petiver have helped to obscure. 

 I must leave the matter still in doubt till we recover the plants 

 of Lawson and Richardson, from their native places of growth 

 in Westmoreland, an object well worthy the attention of some 

 accurate travelling botanist, who may perhaps be rewarded by 

 finding H. dubium and Auricula in the same tour. 



HlERACIUM CERINTHOIDES. 



I am enabled to add this species to the list of British Hawk- 

 weeds, on the authority of a specimen sent in 1803 by Mr. 

 George Don, who informs me it is by no means a scarce plant 

 in the highlands of Scotland, growing upon rocks. Its charac- 

 ter and synonyms are as follows : 



II. cerinthoides, caule corymboso, foliis pilosis subdenticulatis : 



caulinis oblongis semiamplexicaulibus ; radicalibus obova- 



tis, petiolis barbatis. 

 •II. cerinthoides. Sp. PI, ed. I. 803. ed. 2. 1 129. Willd. Sp. PL 



v. 3. 1580. Gouan. Illustr. 58. t. 22. /. 4. Villars Dauph 



v. 3. 110. t. 32. 

 H. pyrenaicum folio cerinthes, latifolium et angustifolium. 



Schola Botanica, 189. Tourn. Inst. 472. 



In the 2d edition of Sp. PL Linnaeus cites for comparison 

 with this a plant of Haller, which is no other than H. villosum. 

 II. cerinthoides is not known to be a Swiss plant, at least it is not 

 among those of Haller, his No. 36, which has been taken for it, 

 proving upon comparison to be the ample wicaulc of Linnaeus. I have 

 two specimens of the cerinthoides in Mr. Davall's herbarium, but 

 no indication of their beipg gathered in Switzerland. Few au- 

 thors seem to have known this species, for Tournefort merely 

 copied the two barren definitions, under which it stands in the 



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