434 SYiNGENESIA : POLYGAMfA ^QUALIS. 



The radical leaves are numerous, rough, dry and 

 faplcfs, lanceolate, and either fparingly indented, 

 or more commonly laciniated half way to the 



rib : the lacini^ acute, and growing larger by 

 degrees towards tlie end of the leaf, which is 

 terminated with a triangular one. Thefe leaves 

 are covered with white rigid hairs, which are bi- 

 fid and trifid at the top. 1 he fiora*l ftalks are firm, 

 hairv, deftitute of leaves, e'ght or ten inches 

 high, and terminated each with a fingle yellow 

 flower. The calyx is hairy. The exterior Carets 

 greenifh or olive-color'd on the under fide. The 

 feeds are longer than the down and ftriated : the 

 down is plumofe and flands on a fliort pedicle. 



*rhat variety with leaves almofl: entire, or only fpa- 

 ringly indented, growls in dry mountainous and 

 (tony places. 



The flowers generally op?n about four o'clock in 

 the morning, and fhut up at three in the after- 

 noon. 



HIERACIUM. Gen. pi. 913. 

 Recept. nudum. Cal. imbricatus, ovat\is. Pappus 

 fimpkx, feflilis. 

 * Scapo ntido unijloro. 

 alpinum i HER ACTUM foliis oblongis integris dentatis, fca- 

 po fubnudo uniHoro, calyce pilofo. Sp.pl. 1124. 

 Raj. Syticp. p. i6ij. I. 6. f. 2. Moris, hifi. f. 7. A 

 7./. 5. bona. Pet. herb. t. 11./. 2 ^ fig. voji.) 

 Alpine Hawkweed. Jnglis. 1 



In 



