366 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-..EQU. Hieraciumi 



14. Yi,villosum. Shaggy Alpine Havvkweed. 



Stem tubular, leafy, shaggy, with very few flowers. Leaves 

 oblong, wavy, unequally toothed, shaggy as well as the 

 calyx. Seeds angular. 



H. villosum. Linn. Sp.Pl. 1130. milcl v. 3. 1585. J^. Pr. 833. 



Engl Bot. V. 34. t. 2379 ; not good. Dicks. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 



288. Jacq.Justr.t.87. 

 H. n. 44. Hall. Hist. v.l.lS. 

 H. n. 971. Hall. Enum.Rar.D4. 

 H. alpinum hirsuto folio quintum. Clus. Pann. 643./. 644. Hist. 



r. 2. 111./. 112. Bauh.Hist.v.2. 1027. f. 

 H. quintum Clusii. Ger. Em. 301. f. 

 H. alpinum, latiore folio, pilosum, flore majofe. Pluk. Almag. 184. 



Phyt. t.\M.f.2. 

 H, alpinum latifolium villosum, magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 128. 



Moris. V. 3. 70. n. 62. sect. 7. t. 5./. 58. 

 Welch Hoary Hawklung. Petiv. H. Brit. ^. 13./. 6 ; cbpied from the 



figure of Clusius, which, through the mistake of Ray, was applied 



to H. alpinum. 



On moist alpine rocks. 



On Ben Nevis. Mr. Dickson. Ben Lawers, and other Scottish 

 mountains. Mr. J. Mackay. Near Meer Gill, at the foot of In- 

 gleborough, Yorkshire ; Mr. Caley. Withering. 



Perennial. August. 



Root woody, with several fibres. Stem upright, a foot or more in 

 height, round, striated, hollow, leafy, unbranched, often quite 

 simple and single-flowered, but not unfrequently divided at the 

 summit, and bearing 2 or more flowers which are very large, 

 near 2 inches wide when fully expanded, lemon-coloured. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, wavy, with shallow unequal teeth, a little 

 glaucous, and, like the stem and calyx, remarkable for their 

 clothing of long, shaggy, hoary hairs, which become tawny by 

 keeping. These copious long hairs, and the large lemon-co- 

 loured 3^ow;er5, distinguish this species from every other of Bri- 

 tish growth. The seeds are chesnut-coloured, more angular 

 than striated, with a very smooth surface. Down rough, rather 

 short. 



The figure in Engl. Bot. taken from an ill-chosen garden specimen, 

 is so unlike the wild plant, that I cannot wonder if Dr. Hooker 

 thought it a difterent species. Our H. villosum has, however, 

 little affinity to H. Halleri of Villars, named hybridum in his 

 t. 26 ; {DeCand. Fr. i;. 4. 1 9. fVilld. v. 3. 1 587,) and still less to 

 H. alpinum. This plant of Villars is, moreover, pumilum of 

 Willd. V. 3. 1562, under which name Mr. Sieber sent specimens 

 from Styria. It does not clearly appear from the Fl. Scot, whe- 

 ther this or villosum was gathered on Ben-y-more. 



