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BRITISH FLORA 



1-3 heads are large and blunt. The stalks bear 

 bracteoles, and are woolly-felted and glandular. 

 The outer phyllarics are small, loose, linear, blunt, 

 woolly-felted at the border, the inner broad, oblong, 

 linear, blunt, woolly-felted, glandular. The ligules 

 are smooth. The styles are slightly livid. The 

 plant is 12-22 in. high, flowering in July, and is 

 a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium buglossoides, Arv. Touv. This plant 

 is green. The stem is purplish, stiffly hairy below, 

 glandular above. The radical leaves are firm, 

 yellow, bluish-green, broad, large, lance-shaped, 

 long, narrowed to the long leaf-stalk, the inner 

 with a few large, triangular, blunt or sharp teeth 

 below, stiffly hairy. The 2-4 stem-leaves have 

 leaf-stalks in the case of the lower, and are similar 

 to the basal leaves, the upper linear, lance-shaped, 

 toothed, acute. The panicle is 1-2 forked, the 

 lower branches in a raceme, the upper divided 

 or single, the stalks are slightly curved, woolly- 

 felted, glandular. The heads are few or numerous, 

 rounded, egg-shaped, dark-green. The phyllaries 

 are narrow, lance-shaped, acute, the inner narrow, 

 acute, the innermost bristle-like, glandular, woolly- 

 felted. The ligules are smooth. The styles are 

 yellow, slightly livid. The margins of the recep- 

 tacle pits are fringed with teeth. The plant is 

 1^-4 ft. in height, flowering in July, and is a 

 herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium scoticum, F. J. Hanb. The habitat 

 of this plant is mountains and sea cliffs. The 

 plant is erect, simple or branched, hairy, woolly- 

 felted. The radical leaves are leathery, purplish, 

 egg-shaped, lance-shaped, hairy below, and on 

 the margins smooth above, entire or irregularly 

 toothed. The stem-leaves are 1-6, large, smaller 

 upwards, broadly lance-shaped, with a narrow 

 point, hairy below, nearly smooth, toothed, the 

 lower stalked, the upper stalkless, clasping, linear, 

 entire. The heads, 3-9, are dark, large, rounded 

 below. The stalks are long, arched, hairy, woolly- 

 felted, glandular. The outer phyllaries are short, 

 loose, broad to linear, blunt, the inner oblong, nar- 

 rowed above, blunt, the innermost narrow, acute, 

 with a pale margin, woolly-felted, hairy, glandular. 

 The ligules have hairless tips. The styles are 

 brown, The margins of the receptacle pits are 

 elevated, cut, toothed, awl-like. The plant is 1-2 

 ft. high, flowering in July and August, and is a 

 herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium proximum, F. J. Hanb. The habitat 

 of this plant is sandy links and cliffs. The stem 

 is simple or branched, hairy, woolly-felted. The 

 radical leaves are yellowish-green with pink on the 

 margins, thick, leathery, rough both sides, the 

 hairs with bulbous base, stalked, wavy, egg- 

 shaped, lance-shaped, nearly entire. The stem- 

 leaves 2-4, smaller upwards, are shortly stalked 

 or stalkless, lance - shaped, acute, irregularly 

 toothed. The panicle is simple or compound, 

 close, in a corymb, with a distant lower branch. 

 The 3-7 heads are large, rounded, or blunt below. 

 The stalks are short, arching, woolly-felted, hairy. 

 The phyllaries are lance-shaped, linear, oblong, 

 narrowed above, blunt, the inner acute, woolly- 



felted on the borders, hairy, glandular. The tips 

 of the ligules are smooth or downy. The styles 

 are olive-brown. The margins of the receptacle 

 pits are elevated, sharply toothed, the teeth awl- 

 like or bristle-like. The achenes are dark brown. 

 The plant is 1-2 ft. high, flowering in July and 

 August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium callistophyllum, F. J. Hanb. The 

 habitat of this species is rocky margins of high 

 mountain streams. The stem is erect, much 

 branched, hairy, woolly-felted, glandular above. 

 The radical leaves are greyish -green or green, 

 turning purple, the earliest are round to oval, in- 

 versely egg-shaped, with a blunt base, the inner- 

 most broad, lance-shaped, acute, toothed, stiffly 

 hairy. The stem-leaf is stalkless, narrow, acute, 

 toothed, or may be wanting. The panicle is a 

 falsely-forked corymb. The branches are bent 

 inwards, divided or in a raceme. The 2-5 heads 

 are cylindrical, rounded at the base. The flower- 

 stalks are woolly-felted, glandular. The phyl- 

 laries are dark-green, the outer short, blunt, the 

 inner with pale margins, acute, woolly-felted on the 

 margins, senescent, hairy, glandular. The ligules 

 are fringed with hairs at the tip. The styles are 

 yellow or very light livid. The margins of the re- 

 ceptacle pits are deeply cut, toothed. The plant 

 is 1-2 ft. high, flowering in July and August, and 

 is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium clovense, Linton. The habitat of 

 this species is cliffs, highland mountains. The 

 stem is reddish, nearly smooth above, woolly- 

 felted below, the radical leaves are egg-shaped 

 with a long, narrow point, toothed, the lowest 

 bent back, hairy both sides with purple blotches, 

 the stem-leaf is wanting, or lance-shaped, shortly 

 stalked, entire or toothed. The heads are broad, 

 in a loose corymb, rounded, egg-shaped. The 

 stalks are woolly-felted, glandular. The phyl- 

 laries are dark, extending forwards in bud, the 

 outer linear, oblong, narrow above, the inner 

 narrow-pointed, hardly woolly-felted, with a pale 

 border, hairy, glandular. The styles are yellow. 

 The ligules are smooth or fringed with hairs. The 

 margins of the receptacle pits are raised or with 

 short teeth. The plant is 8-16 in. high, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Hieracium pachyphyllum, Purchas. The habitat 

 of this species is rocky cliffs. The stem is reddish, 

 finely furrowed, stiffly hairy below, woolly-felted, 

 glandular above. The radical leaves are bluish- 

 green, the outer oval, egg-shaped, oblong, blunt, 

 or heart-shaped below, toothed, the inner more 

 pointed, stiffly hairy, the hairs with bulbous base, 

 below and on the border, with purple margins. 

 The stem-leaf is bract-like or absent, or egg- 

 shaped, long-pointed, toothed low down, stalked. 

 The panicle is a falsely-forked corymb. The stalks 

 are straight or ascending, woolly-felted, glandular. 

 The 3-8 heads are broad, egg-shaped. The phyl- 

 laries are broad, lance-shaped, linear, blunt, folded 

 in early bud, woolly-felted at the margin, senes- 

 cent, the inner narrow above, with many yellow 

 glandular hairs. The ligules are yellow, smooth 

 at the tip. The styles are yellow or slightly livid. 



