ON HIEKACTUH AURANTIACUM L. 



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K. aurantiacum subsp. claropurpureum ? Naegeli & Peter, Hier. 

 Mittel-Europ. Pilosell. 291 (1885). 



Pilosella major Park. Parad. 300, cum icon e (1629); Hieracium 

 hortense latifoliwm Gerard, Herb. ed. 2, lib. 2, 305, cum icone bona 

 (1636) ; Auricula muris hispanica Ray, Hist. i. lib. 5, 243 (1686). 

 -Lcones. Jacquin, Fl. Austr. t. 410 (forma foliis angustioribus 

 lanceolatis dentatis) ; Eng. Bot. no. 1469. 



Exslcc. G. Bon, Banffshire, in Hb. Mus. Brit. ! Baker, Wilton 

 Woods, Cleveland, Yorks. in Hb. Mus. Brit. ! Trimen, Stanmore 

 Heath, Middlesex, 1866, in Hb. Mus. Brit. ! 



Stolons rather short, mostly underground and scaly, producing 

 rosettes of leaves round the parent plant. Stem rising from a radical 

 rosette of leaves, 20-60 cm. high, pilose with spreading hairs 4-5 mm. 

 lon°- ; hairs, except near the base of the stem, dark or black-based, 

 mixed with dark, glandular and stellate hairs above, with 1-4 leaves 

 in the lower half, decreasing upwards. Panicle corymbose, often 

 only 2-4-headed when naturalized, but up to 20-headed in cultiva- 

 tion. Acladium and peduncles tloccose and black-glandular, sparingly 

 pilose with dark hairs. Bracts grey-floccose and pilose externally. 

 Leaves elliptical, or, especially when cultivated, elongate below and 

 becoming obovate-lanceolate, commonly 10-20 cm. long (but reach- 

 ing 30 cm.), and 225-6 cm. (rarely 7 cm.) broad, obtuse or 

 mucronate, with the inner and cauline acute, subentire or distantly 

 denticulate (very rarely subdentate), deep dull green or glaucescent, 

 pilose, on the upper side abundantly, ivitli stiff, light-coloured hairs 

 2-4 mm. long; marginal hairs shorter (L5-2 mm.). Heads about 

 25 mm. in diameter, deep orange-red or brick-red (sometimes purplish 

 when dried), with involucres 8-9 mm. long, nearly truncate below. 

 Bhyllaries rather broad, obtuse, dull green, or when dried, blackish 

 green, with rather broad, pale margins (inner red-tipped), slightly 

 floceulose, pilose with dark hairs mostly 2-3 mm. long, and with 

 scattered dark glandular hairs. Styles light livid but appearing 

 yellowish in contrast to the red ligules. 



Native in Eastern Switzerland and probably in the Tyrol and 

 Austria. 



Cultivated for over three centuries on the Continent and in 

 Britain ; now grown here chiefly in the north of England and in 

 Scotland. 



Naturalized in many Scotch localities, as ' Banffshire (Bon), 

 Forfarshire ( Gardiner), Perthshire (between Killin and Kenmore, 

 B. Brown, 1793), Kinross-shire (B. Stuart), Lanarkshire (Bothwell 

 Woods, Glasgow, J. P. 1870), and Selkirk (Galashiels, 1910!) ; and 

 in England at Berwick-on-Tweed (Hb. Hume), Yorkshire (Baker), 

 Middlesex (Trimen), and Isle of Wight (St. Lawrence, B. Cooper). 



Hievacium brunneo-croceum, sp. no v. 



H aurantiacum auct. mult, non L. ; H. aurantiacum subsp. 

 aurantiacum Naegeli & Peter, I. c. 288. 



Leon. Fl. Danica, t. 1112 (ut H. aurantiacum). 



Exsicc. Hier. Naegel. nos. 17!, 80!, 122! E. S. Marshall, 

 no. 4190! (omnia ut H. aurantiacum). 



Stolones, saltern in cultis, longi, vulgo supra terram foliosi sed 



