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SPECIES I— HIE R A CI UM PILOSELLA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXXII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Nos. 1261, 1262. 

 Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLVIII. 



Back Mon. Hier. p. 13. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 199. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 

 p. 217. Fries, Epic. p. 10. 



Stolons elongate, with tlie leaves scattered, rarely short, and 

 suh-rosulate. Leaves oblanceolate or obovate - oblanceolate, or 

 strapshaped-oblanceolate, entire, rather obtuse, with long hairs 

 on both sides, felted with stellate down beneath. Scapes 

 leafless. Anthode solitary. Pericline ovate -ovoid, at length 

 ovate-conical. Inner phyllaries acute. Styles yellow. 



Var. a, genuinum. 

 Stolons elongated, with distant leaves. 



Var. /3, pilosissimum. Pries. 



H. Peleterianum, Merat, Fl. Par. p. 305. 



Stolons short and thick, with the leaves often sub-rosulate. 

 Eadical leaves often narrower than in var. a. 



On dry banks and pastures, wall-tops, &c. Very common, 

 and generally distributed. Var. 3 rare. Preshwater Gate, Isle of 

 Wight (Mr. Hambrough) ; also on Craig Breidden, Montgomery- 

 shire (Mr. Backhouse), and in Dovedale, Derbyshire (Mr. Borrer !). 

 Abundant in Jersey, especially in St. Brelade's Bay. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer 



to Autumn. 



Bootstock branched, emitting numerous prostrate stolons, 

 which creep above ground, or more rarely are ascending at the 

 apex. Leaves at the base of the scape in a rosette 1 to 5 inches 

 long, somewhat obtuse, narrowed at the base, but not distinctly 

 stalked, felted and generally white with stellate down beneath, and 



Fries, in his " Epicrisis Generis Hieraciorum," usually quotes Mr. Backhouse's species 

 with a mark of admiration, to indicate that he has seen specimens, and as hg genei'ally 

 agrees very closely with the English authority, I have made an exception in his case. 

 Without the aid of specimens, I do not dare to refer to the views of Messrs. Grenier, 

 Grieshach, C. H. Schultz, and Jordan, because in this genus descriptions alone are 

 insufficient to point out the limits of the species as intended by these authors. 



