66 SWISS FLOWERS. 



rather high ground must be reached before it is found : 

 Alpes de Morcles, Furca, Cabanne de St. Vincent on Monte 

 Rosa, Col St. Theodule, Mer de Glace, above Wengeu, &c. 



47. Crepis, Hieracia, Leontodon. 



(PLATE XXVIII.) 



For by these various names do the plants go which have 

 the general appearance of a Hawkweed or a Dandelion. 

 They are puzzling plants to distinguish, as there are several 

 of even the reddish colour, and many of the species depend 

 on the difference in the achenes or seeds. The one 

 figured, C. aurea (Fig. 47), is the one that will be the most 

 probably met with of those that look like an orange-red 

 Hawkweed, as it abounds in the higher pastures. The plant 

 is about five or six inches high, having one, or very rarely 

 two, flowers on the stalk, which is very often leafless. The 

 flower is smaller than a Dandelion, with a calyx dotted with 

 hairs. The leaves are smooth, toothed, rather runcinate. 

 Rarer in the Jura than in the Alps. 



