SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-.^QU. Hieracium. S6d 



description of this plant but ill accord with my Swiss specimens. 



There seems no reason to suppose it a native of Britain, but I 



subjoin its character and synonyms. The name, taken from 



Vaillant, is not apposite. 

 H. succiscefolium. Stem solid, furrowed, leafy, corymbose, smooth, 



like the lanceolate, taper-pointed, entire leaves. Calyx, and top 



of the flower- stalks, somewhat downy. 

 H. succisaefolium. AlUon. Pedem. v. 1. 205, without character, 



figure, or description. DeCand. Fr. v. 4. 28. H. inlegrifolium. 



mnd.v.3.\56S. H.n.47. Hall. Hist. v. \. 20. H. glabrum, 



Succisae folio, prorsus integro. Vaill. M^m. de VAc. des Sc. 710. 



n. 40. Le Monnier Obs. 157. 



13. H. cerinthoides . Honey wort-leaved Hawkweed. 



Stem solid, leafy, corymbose, somewhat angular. Leaves 

 hairy, slightly toothed ; the uppermost ovate, pointed, 

 clasping; radical ones elliptic-oblong, with shaggy fringed 

 footstalks. 



H. cerinthoides. Linn. Sp. PL 1 129. IVilld. v. 3. 1580. Sni. Tr. 



of Linn. Soc. v. 9. 242. Comp. ed.4. 131. Engl. Bot. v. 34. 



t. 2378. Hook. Scot. 232. GouanlUustr. 58. t. 22./. 4. Villars 



Dauph.v.2>.\\0.t.32} 

 H. pyrenaicum, folio cerinthes, latifolium, et angustifolium, Schola 



Bot. 189. Vaill. Mem. de VAc. des Sc. 707. n. 16, 1 7. Tourn. 



Inst. 472. 



On rocks in the Highlands of Scotland, not uncommon. Mr. G. 

 Don. 



Perennial. August. 



Root somewhat woody, blackish. Herb rather glaucous. Stem 1| 

 or 2 feet high, erect, stout, cylindrical, with several slight an- 

 gles, smooth, or nearly so, quite solid, corymbose, leafy. Ra- 

 dical leaves on long, flat, very shag;gy footstalks, elliptic-oblong, 

 or obovate, from 3 to 5 inches in length, acute, sometimes ob- 

 tuse, either nearly entire, or beset with small distant teeth, the 

 surface bes))rinkled with dots, a little like those o( Ccrint he, but 

 these are often very slight, and the long hairs which accompany 

 them are variable in quantity ; stem-leaves sessile, ovate, entire, 

 taper-pointed, fringed, gradually diminished to copious leafy 

 bracteas on the rough stalks of the panicle. Fl. rather large, 

 pale yellow, on bristly glandular stalks. Cal. covered with 

 shaggy, but short, hairs. Seeds furrowed, dark brown. Down 

 minutely rough. 



Our plant is certainly tliat of Linnieus, and a|)parently of DeCan- 

 dolle. It accords well witii (iou.ms plate, but not with that of 

 Villars, nor with specimens from Dau])hinv, which yet may pos- 

 BJbly be but varieties of the same species. 



