S64 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-iEQU. Hieracium. 



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. molle. Soft-leaved Hawkweed. 



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

 lanceolate, slightly toothed, hairy, clasping the stem ; 

 lower ones stalked, elliptical and obtuse. 



H. molle. Jacq. Austr. tj. 2. 12. M 19 ; from the author. Willd. 

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

 fasc. 11.13. Fl. Br. 832. Engl. But. v.3\. t. 2210. With. 688. 

 Hook. Scot. 232 j excluding the sijnomjm. 



In woods in the south of Scotland. Dickson. 



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

 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 flower- 

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

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

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

 very obscurely and minutely toothed, often quite entire j 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. Fl. 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, furrowed. Down 

 rough. 



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

 Willdenow, confound it with Hallefs w.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 Jiowers are nearly twice the size of R molle. Calyx 

 very slightly hairy, cottony at the base, like the summit of each 

 Jiower stalk. The panicle is otherwise smooth, not bristly nor 

 glandular, and bears several diminished leaves, resembling those 

 of the stem, but much smaller. Willdenow's definition and 



