364 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-iEQU. Hieracium. 



intensely bitter. Stem erect, angular, hollow, leafy, about 2 feet 

 high, unbranched, but terminating in a corymbose panicle of 

 several bright yellow^0M;ers, scarcely an inch in diameter ; their 

 stalks smooth. Calyx rough with black prominent hairs, parti- 

 cularly at its base. Leaves elliptic-oblong, taper-pointed, co- 

 piously toothed, the lower teeth often hooked backward ; the 

 base elongated, dilated, and clasping the stem ; radical ones few, 

 somewhat stalked. It is one of our best-defined species. 



12. H. ?nolle. Soft-leaved Hawkweed. 



Stem angular, tubular, leafy, downy, corymbose. Leaves 



lanceolate, slightly toothed, hairy, clasping the stem; 



lower ones stalked, elliptical and obtuse. 



H. moUe. Jacq. Austr. v.2.\2. t.\\9 ; from the author. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 3. 1577. Dicks. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 288. H. Sice. 

 /asc. 11.13. Ft. Br. 832. Engl. Bot. v. 31. t. 2210. rVith.688. 

 Hook. Scot. 232 ; excluding the synonym. 



In woods in the south of Scotland. Dickson. 



Among bushes in meadows, to the north of Forfar ; Mr. G. Don ; 

 and by the lower fall of the Tummel, Glen Luss ; Mr. Borrer. 

 Hooker. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root abrupt, with many long fibres. Whole herb clothed with scat- 

 tered, short, soft, simple hairs, which on the angular j^ower- 

 stalks are glandular and viscid. Stem 12 or 18 inches high, 

 erect, leafy, angular, perfectly tubular and hollow, unbranched 

 except at the summit. Eadical leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 

 very obscurely and minutely toothed, often quite entire ; paler 

 beneath ; tapering at the base into long, narrow, bordered/oo«- 

 stalks; upper ones several, sessile, clasping the stem, more lan- 

 ceolate and less blunt. Panicle corymbose. Ft. not numerous, 

 about an inch broad, of a full golden yellow. Cal. clothed with 

 short, brownish, spreading, scarcely glandular hairs, intermixed 

 with a little cottony down. Seeds light brown, furrow^ed. Down 

 rough. 



Mr. Davall found this species in Switzerland, but he did not, like 

 Willdenow, confound it with Haller's n. 47, Willdenow's integri- 

 folium, under which this author also quotes Haller's 47- The 

 latter is a most distinct species, perfectly smooth, glaucous, well 

 compared by Haller to a Bupleurum, and resembling also some 

 of the smooth species of Solidago. The leaves are lanceolate ; 

 those of the stem numerous, narrow, taper-pointed, quite en- 

 tire, sessile, hardly clasping. Stem round, strongly furrowed, 

 perfectly solid, not tubular, a character too much overlooked by 

 authors who have attempted to discriminate the species of Hie- 

 racium. The^oirersarenearly twice the size of //. »/io//e. Calyx 



