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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL: 



HIP 



Offer species from Villars and Al/ioni. 



38. Hieracinm Halleri. Leaves lanceolate, toothed, ob- 

 scurely villose ; stem somewhat branched, stiff, six or eight 

 inches high, straight, stout, terminated by one, two, or three 

 flowers, hirsute, with long lanuginose hairs, and others that 

 are smaller, placed on a black base, which gives a roughness 

 to the stem ; calix oval ; scales lanuginose, separate, dirty 

 gray, a little viscid. Native of Switzerland, Savoy, &c. 



39. Hieracium Valde Pilosum. Stem straight, almost sim- 

 ple ; leaves stem-clasping, woolly ; calices imbricate. This 

 is thought to be a variety of the thirtieth species. 



40. Hieracium Cydoniaefolium. Stem straight, branching 

 from the axils ; leaves oblong-elliptio, half stem-clasping, 

 toothed; calices hispid, blackish; flowers middle-sized, in a 

 gray and blackish calix; perennial. Native of Dauphiny. 



41. Hieracinm Scorzonersefolium. Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, glaucous, and hairy; stem oblique, hairy and hoary, 

 few-flowered; root oblique, truncated, and perennial. Na- 

 tire of the beds of torrents in the Alps, and in Dauphiny. 



42. Hieracium Glaucum. Leaves lanceolate, glaucous ; 

 stem branched, stiff, a foot or eighteen inches high, having 

 little, oval, acuminate, sessile leaves at the division of the 

 branches; flowers middle-sized. Native of Dauphiny. 



43. Hieracium Staticifolium. Stem almost naked; leaves 

 ligulate, obtuse ; flower sulphur-coloured ; root very thick 

 and deep, frequently forked at the upper part, perennial ; 

 flowers large, pale-yellow or sulphur-coloured, turning green 

 in dying. Native of Dauphiny, Piedmont, and Switzerland. 



44. Hieracium Saxatile. Leaves roundish, quite entire; 

 stem almost naked, a few inches high, terminated by a few 

 flowers ; seeds blackish, their receptacle manifestly villose. 

 Native of Dauphiny and Italy. 



45. Hieracium Lawsonii. Leaves oblong, villose, quite 

 entire; stem straight, many-flowered; root thick, truncate, 

 perennial, covered with russet membranes: the peduncles 

 have two scales near the calix, and one leaf at their base: 

 the hairs of the calix are in part glandular. Native of Dau- 

 phiny ; found also in the north of England. 



46. Hieracium Andryaloides. Leaves densely tomentose, 

 curled or sinuate at the base; stem spreading; root oblique, 

 thick, perennial. Native of Dauphiny. 



47. Hieracium Liottardi. Leaves lanceolate, toothed ; 

 stem upright, two-flowered. This plant, which is cottony, 

 like the last, and small, is distinguished by its lanceolate 

 toothed leaves. Native of Dauphiny. 



48. Hieracium Jacquini. Leaves pinnatifid at the base, 

 hirsute, green; calicine hairs glandular ; stem with about two 

 flowers; root thick, oblique, fibrous, truncated, perennial ; calix 

 villose, blackish, with a few glandular hairs ; egret sessile, 

 with simple hairs, slightly toothed. Native of Dauphiny. 



49. Hieracium Lanceolatum. Stem straight, stiff; leaves 

 lanceolate, toothed ; flowers in a kind of corymb, in a black- 

 ish calix; root perennial. Native of Dauphiny. 



50. Hieracium Pulmonaroides. Leaves lanceolate, tooth- 

 sinuate, those on the stem sessile ; peduncles proliferous ; 

 root perennial, oblique, thick, covered with scales ; stem 

 about a foot high, terminated by several middle-sized flowers 

 in a calix. Native of Dauphiny, on walls. 



51. Hieracium Aibidum. Leaves gnawn, ligulate, hispid; 

 stem subdichotomous, few-flowered; root perennial, long-, 

 oblique, simple, woody ; flowers large, reddish on the out- 

 side, pale yellow within ; seeds short, brown, crowned by a 

 sessile egret of simple hairs, but toothed and russet : the 

 whole plant is rough, of a yellowish green, and covered with 

 glandular hairs, that give it a disagreeable smell. Native of 

 sunny pastures, on the high mountains of Dauphiny and Savoy. 



52. Hieracium Pappoleucon. Leaves lyrate-spatulate, 

 toothed ; stem-leaves with two ears, embracing the stem on 

 both sides ; stem striated, viscid, two-flowered, a foot long, 

 firm, thick; root perennial, simple, thick, dividing at top 

 into two parts, one of which produces a stem without leaves 

 at the base, and the other a bundle of root-leaves without 

 stem for the most part. The stem is terminated by one, two, 

 three, and even as far as fourteen pretty large flowers, which 

 are all on separate peduncles. Native of Dauphiny, where 

 it is found in alpine meadows. 



53. Hieracium Florentinum. Stem brachiate, few-flowered ; 

 leaves lanceolate, long-haired ; calices smooth. This plant 

 is about a foot high, with an upright stem, not putting out 

 runners ; calix very smooth ; flowers small, heaped on the 

 top of the stem : perennial. Native of Switzerland, the 

 Valais, and Piedmont. 



54. Hieracium Capillaceum. Stem almost naked, one- 

 flowered ; leaves nerved, grassy, quite entire; root thick, 

 black, perennial ; scape a hand in height, almost naked, 

 simple, one-flowered. Native of the county of Nice, about 

 Sospello. 



55. Hieracium Succissefolium. Leaves smooth, quite 

 entire; root-leaves elliptic, on long petioles; stem-leaves 

 clasping, with blunt hooks; root perennial; calix black and 

 hairy. Native of Switzerland and Piedmont. 



High-Taper. See Verbascam. 



Hillia ; (so named in honour of Sir John Hill, M.D.) a 

 genus of the class Hexandria, order Monogynia. GENERIC 

 CHARACTER. Calix: perianth double; lower six-leaved; 

 leaflets opposite, unequal, oblong, entire; the two inner 

 smaller, embracing the germen, deciduous, coloured: upper 

 two to four leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, erect, perma- 

 nent. Corolla: monopetalotis ; tube cylindric, very long, 

 striated, towards the border ventricose ; border six-cleft; 

 clefts long, reflex, contorted, revolute. Stamina: filamenta 

 six, very short, inserted below the border into the belly of 

 the tube; anthera oblong, two-celled within the throat of 

 the corolla. Pistil: germen inferior, oblong, obscurely six- 

 cornered ; style filiform, thick, the length of the tube ; stigma 

 thickened, compressed, bifid. Pericarp: capsule elongated, 

 angular, two-celled, opening longitudinally into two valves, 

 crowned with the leaflets of the upper calix. Seeds: nume- 

 rous, pappose, round a linear receptacle ; down capillary. 

 ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Culix : double ; lower six-leaved. 

 Corolla : very long, contorted. Capsule : two-celled, two- 

 valved, crowned. Seeds: downy. The species are, 



1. Hillia Longiflora. Corollas six-clet't, clefts lanceolate, 

 revolute ; leaves ovate, acute. This is a shrub with an 

 ascending stem, a fathom in height, branched, loose, smooth, 

 brittle, covered with an ash-coloured shining bark ; branches 

 simple, leafy, round, smooth, brittle; flowers terminating, 

 sessile, solitary, very long, white, and very sweet. Native of 

 Jamaica and Martinico, in wet coppices upon the mountains. 

 It is not parasitical, but creeps among old mossy wood ; 

 flowering in summer. 



2. Hillia Triandra. Corollas four-cleft, four-stamined ; 

 clefts ovate ; leaves obovate, wedge-shaped at the base. This 

 shrub is three or four feet high ; with creeping roots, throw- 

 ing out long fibres. The flowers are terminal and axillary, 

 sessile, solitary, yellowish-white. It is a native of Jamaica. 



Htppia ; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Polygamia 

 Necrssaria. Calix: common, hemispherical, somewhat im- 

 bricate, with ovate scales. Corolla : compound, discoid ; 

 floscules male, several in the disk ; females ten in the cir- 

 cumference: proper of the males funnel-form, five-cleft, up- 

 right; of the females obsolete, tubulous, slightly three-cleft. 



