SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-.^QU. Hicracium. 355 



leafy; in some species wanting, the Jto-wer-stalks being 

 radical and naked, bearing one or morejlowers. Leaves 

 simple, various in breadth ; either undivided, entire, 

 toothed, or pinnatifid ; mostly rough or hairy ; sometimes 

 smooth. FL yellow, very seldom reddish. The herbage 

 in general is milky, and more or less bitter, but these 

 qualities are in some instances hardly perceptible. 



* Stalk radical^ naked ^ sijigle-^owered. 



1. H. a/pmum. Alpine Single-flowered Hawkweed. 



Leaves oblong, undivided, somewhat toothed. Stalk almost 

 leafless, single-flowered. Calyx shaggy. 



H. alpinum. Linn. Sp. PL 1124. miUL v. 3. 1561 . FL Br. 827. 

 • EngL But. V. 16. ^ 1 1 10. Light/. 434. ^ 18. Hook. Scot. 228. 



Ailion. Pedem. v.\.2\ 2. t. 14. f. 2. 

 H. n.49. H(dL Hint. v. 1.21. 

 H. villosum alpinum, flore magno singulari, caule nudo. DHL in 



Rail Syn. 169. t.6.f.2. 

 H. villosum alpinum latifolium, magno flore. Raii Syn. cd. 2. 75, 



excl. the reference to Clusius. 

 H. aiterum pumilum. Column. Ecphr. v. 2. 29. t. 30,/. 2. Raii Hist. 



'v. 1.241. 

 Welsh Mouse-ear. Petiv.H. Brit. ^ 1 1 ./. 2 ; copied, with purposed 



variation, from Columna. 



On dry rocky mountains, in Wales and Scotland. 



First observed by Mr. Lhwyd, on some of the loftiest rocks about 

 Snowdon. Ray. On many of the Highland mountains. Light/. 

 Hooker. 



Perennial. Jidy. 



Root blackish, rather woody. Herb clothed with prominent, hoary, 

 rigid hairs, tawny at their base. Leaves almost entirely radical, 

 a solitary one being only now and then elevated a little way up 

 the stalk, all of them of a narrow obovate figure, tapering at the 

 base, either quite entire, or slightly and distantly toothed, about 

 2 inches long, dark green and equally liairy on both sides. Stalk 

 solitary, erect, bearing a large, bright yellow //oit-er, whose calyx 

 is black and very hairy. Tube of each //ort7 externally hairy. 

 Seeds minutely dotted, angidar, reddish-brown. Doicn rough. 



//. alpinum, Khrh. Herb. 70, and especially his strongly and sharply 

 toothed variety 89, with a divided sddk, iuive indeed the shaggy 

 dark c(dyx, and hairv7^""''S of our j)lant, but they are far more 

 gigantic than any specimens of British growth that 1 have seen. 

 This /i.S9 may |)erhaps be //. HalUri, Hook. Scot. 229, but it is 

 not //. vdlosum of Lnij;!. Bof. t. 2379, nor //. pumilum of U'ill. 

 denow^ both of whleh are caulescent. 



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