478 COMPOSITiE. Hieracium. 



or epatulate-oblong, entire or obscurely denticulate, slightly petioled, thin and 

 pale, often purplish and glaucous beneath, mostly with purple veins, the 

 margins and especially the midrib beneath villous, the surfaces often gla- 

 brous; the filiform divaricate peduncles and base of the involucre either 

 glabrous or sparsely and minutely hispid with short glanduliferous hairs; 

 achenia linear (very obscurely if at all narrowed at the summit). — Livn. 

 spec. 2. p. 800 ; Willd. ! sfec. 3. p. 1570 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 502 ; Ell. sk. 

 2. p. 262 ; Hook.fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 297 ,• Darlingt. !fi. Cest. p. 446 ; Frod. ! 

 in DC. prodr. 7. p. 217. Stenotheca venosa, Monnier, Hier. p. 72. 



(i. subcaulescens : stem more or less leafy near the base ; the cauline leaves 

 varying from ovate to lanceolate, sessile or slightly clasping. — H. Gronovii, 

 Linn. ! herb., Sf spec. 2. p. 802, as to char, (not as to syn. Gronov. .') ; 

 Willd..' I. c. ; Michx. fl. 2. p. 87 (var. a.) ; Monnier, I. c. p. 30 ; Frcel. ! 

 in DC. I. c. 



In dry soil, pine woods, &c., Canada ! and Saskatchawan ! to Kentucky! 

 and the upper portion of Georgia ! &c. : mosl.abundant in the Northern and 

 New England States! May-July. — Scape 1-2 feet high. Earlier radical 

 leaves appressed to the ground, sparsely hirsute above ; the cauline when 

 present at length glabrous. Heads small, about 20-flowered : the ligules 

 long, bright yellow. Inner or principal scales of the involucre about 10, 

 glabrous or nearly so. — There is no specimen in the herbarium of Linnaeus 

 with this name : we know not whence he obtained the character, " scapo 

 crassissimo." — HaivTc-weed. Rattle-snake-weed. (One of the reputed anti- 

 dotes to the bite of venomous snakes.) 



9. H. paniculatian (Linn.): stem slender, leafy, paniculate, villous to- 

 wards the base ; leaves lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, acute at each end, den- 

 ticulate, sessile, membranaceous, glabrous ; panicle diflTuse, mostly com- 

 pound, dichotomous ; the slender filiform branches and peduncles divaricate, 

 nearly glabrous, as well as the (few) scales of the 12-20-flowered involucre ; 

 achenia short, not at all contracted at the apex. — Linn.! spec. 2. p. 802; 

 Michx. ! fl. 2. p. 86 ; Pursh, I. c. ; Hook. ! I. c. ; Darlingt. ! fl. Cest. 

 p. 447 ,• Frcul. ! in DC. prodr. 7. p. 222. 



Woodlands, Canada! and Northern States! to the mountains of Georgia! 

 Aug.-Sept. — Heads smaller than in any other species of the genus: the in- 

 volucre of fewer scales even than H. venosum ; but the achenia as in the 

 proper Hieracia. 



* * Natives of Oregon and the North West Coast. 



10. H. triste {WWld. herb.): stem slender, simple, bearing one or two 

 leaves, and few or several racemose or paniculate heads; leaves oblong- 

 spatulate, entire or obscurely denticulate, villous or nearly glabrous, tapering 

 into slender petioles ; the upper cauline lanceolate; peduncles, the summit 

 of the stem, and especially the involucre cinereous-woolly and hirsute with 

 lonsj brownish hairs (which are seldom glanduliferous) ; achenia oblong, not 

 narrowed at the summit. — Sprens- ■' syst. 3. p. 640. H. triste & H. arcli- 

 cum, Fral. in DC. prodr. 7. p. 209. H. gracile, Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. 

 «. 298, not oi Fro&l. in DC. I. c. p. 231. H. Hookeri, Steud. nomenc. ed. 2. 

 p. 763. 



Unalaschka, Norfolk Sound, &c. Chamisso! Northern and higher Rocky 

 Mountains, -Drw?/UKo« J / — A span to a foot or more high. Heads about as 

 large as in H. venosum : the ligules very short. Involucre &c. remarkably 

 clothed with long grayish-brown hairs. 



11. H". ScowZeri (Hook.): stem paniculate-branched, either smooth and 

 glabrous, except the base, or hispid with divaricate-spreading long bristly 

 hairs, leafy below ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute or mucronate, mostly 



