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leaf above. The heads are usually 1-3, black, 

 rounded below. The stalks are short, straight or 

 wavy, hairy, and glandular. The phyllaries are 

 long, extending forwards, the outer small, loose, 

 the inner long, linear, narrowed from a broad 

 base, acute, bristle -like, senescent, hairy, and 

 slightly glandular. The ligules are orange-yellow, 

 the inner fringed with hairs. The styles are yellow, 

 livid. The plant is 9-15 in. in height, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium simians, F. J. Hanb. The habitat 

 of this plant is lofty mountain glens, ravines of 

 mountain streams, moist ledges in the glens. The 

 stem is hollow, simple or branched, stiffly hairy, 

 woolly-felted, hairy, and glandular above. The 

 radical leaves are green to red, the first ones 

 spoon - shaped, inversely egg-shaped, the later 

 oblong, rounded, blunt above, the inner narrow to 

 oblong, lance-shaped, with a long narrow point, 

 the margin wavy (hence sinuans), the base running 

 down the stem, with sharp teeth pointing forwards, 

 stiffly hairy below, the border fringed with hairs. 

 The stem-leaf is solitary, lance-shaped, acute, or 

 bract-like, toothed. The 3-7 heads are large, dark, 

 pitcher -like or bell -shaped, on long, straight, 

 woolly-felted, glandular, stiffly hairy stalks. The 

 phyllaries meet together in bud, and are very dark, 

 the outer short, loose, the inner narrow, linear, 

 lance-shaped, acute, with a pale margin, senescent, 

 hairy, and glandular. The ligules are golden, 

 stiffly hairy, the tips hairless. The styles are very 

 dark. The plant is 6-15 in. in height, flowering in 

 July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium nigresccns, Willd. The habitat of 

 this plant is lofty mountains. The plant is green, 

 the stem wavy, stiffly hairy, woolly-felted, glandu- 

 lar. The radical leaves are oval, elliptic, blunt, 

 with a short point, toothed especially towards the 

 base, narrowed to the foot-stalk, stiffly hairy. 

 The 1-2 stem-leaves are bract-like. The few heads 

 are dark, slender, egg-shaped, with a rounded 

 base. The stalks are stout, spreading, glandular. 

 The phyllaries are slender, linear, glandular. The 

 ligules are stiffly hairy. The styles are dark. 

 The height is 4-6 in. The plant flowers in July 

 and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium atratum, Fr. f. The habitat of this 

 plant is lofty mountains. The stem is simple or 

 branched, nearly smooth, stellately downy, glandu- 

 lar. The radical leaves are bright-green above, 

 stiffly hairy below, broad, elliptic, entire, with a 

 blunt base, the inner oval, lance-shaped, acute, 

 wavy, coarsely irregularly toothed, the teeth acute, 

 broad, triangular, ascending, the leaves on long 

 stalks. The stem-leaf is solitary, stalked, oval, 

 lance-shaped, acute. The heads are rounded below, 

 on arching, long, woolly-felted, glandular stalks, 

 with bracteoles at the base. The very dark-green 

 phyllaries are blunt, the inner with a pale margin, 

 awl-like, glandular, hairy, with woolly felt at the 

 base of the outer. The ligules are yellow, stiffly 

 hairy, the tips fringed with hairs, smooth in 

 British specimens. The styles are yellowish- 

 brown. The plant is 6-12 in. high, flowering in 

 July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium ciimbn'ensf, F. J. Hanb. The habi- 

 tat of this plant is lofty mountains. The rootstock 

 is horizontal or bent, woody. The stem is stout, 

 reddish, rough, stiffly hairy, woolly-felted, glandu- 

 lar. The radical leaves are numerous, thick, 

 yellow, bluish-white, the outer rounded, blunt at 

 the base, the later egg-shaped, oval, blunt-pointed, 

 toothed, wedge - shaped at the base, the inner 

 elliptic, egg-shaped, lance-shaped, narrow, acute, 

 with 4 large teeth each side, smooth, stiffly hairy, 

 in the nerves below fringed on the border. The 

 stem-leaf is solitary, stalked, linear, bract-like. 

 The panicle is close, with J -2 racemose, corymbose, 

 umbelled branches, the upper erect, spreading. 

 The stalks are straight, woolly-felted, glandular. 

 The 5-10 heads are large, black, long. The long 

 phyllaries extend forwards in bud, the outer tri- 

 angular, acute, the inner long, linear, blunt, the 

 inner narrower, acute, with pale -green borders, 

 with woolly felt, except the outermost, and glandu- 

 lar. The ligules are orange, smooth. The styles 

 are livid. 



Hieracium submurorum, Lindeb. The habitat 

 of this plant is lofty mountains. The stem is 

 usually simple, stout, tall, stiffly hairy, slightly 

 woolly-felted below, glandular above. The radical 

 leaves are light-green, thick, broad, the outer 

 rounded, inversely egg-shaped, blunt, narrowed 

 below, the middle oval, inversely egg-shaped, 

 acute, coarsely and sharply toothed below, the 

 innermost egg - shaped, lance - shaped, acute, 

 the teeth long, acute. The stem-leaves are 

 stalked, egg-shaped, lance-shaped, acute, toothed, 

 the upper linear, lance -shaped, entire, stiffly 

 hairy below, fringed with hairs. The panicle is 

 loose, with 2-3 patent i-2-headed branches, the 

 upper arching, woolly-felted, glandular. The 4-10 

 heads are thick, blackish -green, rounded, egg- 

 shaped, cylindric in bud. The outer phyllaries 

 are loose, the inner long, lance- shaped, linear, 

 blunt, the innermost narrowed, acute, with a pale 

 border, senescent, hairy, and glandular. The 

 ligules are tipped with hairs. The styles are livid- 

 black. The plant is 10-18 in. high, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous per- 

 ennial. 



Hieracium centripelale, F. J. Hanb. The habi- 

 tat of this plant is rocky beds of alpine burns. 

 The stem is erect, solid, furrowed, wavy, stiffly 

 hairy below, woolly-felted, glandular above. The 

 radical leaves form a flat rosette, the earliest being 

 rounded, egg-shaped, the later narrow, oblong, 

 the inner lance-shaped, horizontally toothed to- 

 wards the wedge-shaped base, stiffly hairy below 

 and on the margins. There is one stem-leaf, the 

 bract linear, lance-shaped, toothed. The panicle 

 has long, alternate, arching branches. The 2-12 

 heads are narrow, bell-shaped, narrow at the 

 base in bud. The flower -stalks are arching, 

 woolly-felted, glandular. The phyllaries are long, 

 narrow, linear, the outer blunt, acute, woolly-felted, 

 the inner narrow, with a pale margin, senescent, 

 glandular, hairy. The styles are livid. The 

 ligules have stiffly hairy tips. The margins of the 

 receptacle pits are toothed and torn. The plant is 



