Compositae. 85 



HIERA'CIUM AURANTI'ACUM. 6—7. Leaves obovate not downy 

 (837) beneath, flowers orange corymbose, bracts obtuse, root stock creeping. 

 Copses. 



HIERA'CIUM PILOSEL'LA (no). Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 5—8. 

 (836) Leaves entire elliptical or obovate downy beneath, scapes usually leaf- 

 less, flowers yellow solitary, runners creeping. Woods and banks. 



Hiera'cium Lawso'ni (18). 7—8. Stem 1—2 ft. high, radical leaves 

 {857) ovato-lanceolate, petioles long shaggy winged, cauline leaves I — 2 

 ovate, flowers 2 — 5 large. [G. {Attermire Cave^ Stockdale, Gordale.) 



HIERA'CIUM UMBELLA'TUM(7i). 7—9. Stem short wiry, leaves 

 (872) many narrow oblong-lanceolate or linear toothed or entire nearly 



smooth, flowers in somewhat umbellate cor>-mbs, peduncles slender 



rigid. Thickets, 



Hiera'cium Muro'rum {24). Wall Hawkweed. 6 — 8. Stem 1—2 ft. high 

 (859, 853, nearly glabrous, radical leaves in a distinct rosette ovate cordate 

 854, 860) or rounded at the base, cauline leaves few or none, heads 2 — 6, 

 peduncles flocculent. [G. C. St. 



HIERA'CIUM SYLVAT'ICUM (55). Wood Hawkweed. 6-8. 

 (863, Leaves lanceolate sharply toothed, radical leaves distinctly alternate 

 866) not so crowded in a rosette as in H. murorum, stem more leafy. 

 Woods and banks, 



Hiera'cium prenanthoi'des (15). 8—9. Stem 2—3 ft. rigid leafy often 

 (869) much-branched, leaves oblong or linear oblong amplexicaul with 

 remote teeth, upper leaves cordate and auricled, peduncles short 

 flocculent. [G. {Stainforth Force.) 



Hiera'cium croca'tum (27). 7 — 9. Stem 2 — 4 ft. branched, leaves lance- 

 (873, olate or oblong sessile rounded at the base toothed or entire. 

 874) [G. {Attermire Cave, Gordale.) 



HIERA'CIUM BOREA'LE {Z']). 7—9. Stem 2— 4 ft. long very hairy 

 (875) below downy above, leaves broad at the base ovate or lanceolate 

 toothed, lower leaves petiolate, upper leaves sessile, involucres glabrous 

 dark-coloured, peduncles flocculent white. Woods and banks. 



IX. — TA RAX A C UM. 



TARAX'ACUM OFFICINA'LE (no). Dandelion. 3—10. Leaves all 

 (882) radical sinuate toothed or runcinate, flowers solitary, corollas bright 

 yellow, outer ones often brown at the back, involucre imbricated, outer 

 bracts smaller often recurved, receptacle flat naked pitted, pappus 

 pilose, achenes terete slightly angled at the base with a long slender 

 beak. Waste places everywhere. 



