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corymbose umbel. Leaves all radical, soft, oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 dentate, hairy. Bracts of the general involucre not awned on either 

 side. Flowers flesh-coloured, pink, or rarely white. 



Pastures and stony places up to 5600 feet ; local. June, July. 



Distribution. Eastern Alps from Tyrol to Carinthia. 



Crepis paludosa Mcench. 



Much like a Hawkweed (Hieracium) in habit. Stems erect, 

 branched, 1-2 feet high, nearly glabrous like the leaves. Root-leaves 

 ovate, coarsely toothed, with a few small lobes along the stalk ; 

 stem-leaves oblong to lanceolate, pointed, toothed, clasping the 

 stem by large, pointed auricles. Flower-heads rather large, yellow, 

 8-10 in a corymb. Involucres hairy, blackish. Pappus dirty white, 

 much like that of a Hawkweed, but the achenes are contracted at 

 the top. 



Moist woods and Alpine meadows. June to August. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central, and Western Alps. Vosges, 

 Jura, Cevennes, Pyrenees, Central and Northern Europe (becoming 

 a mountain plant in the south), Russia, Scandinavia, British Isles. 



HIERACIUM L. Hawkweed. 



Herbs with perennial rootstock, entire or toothed leaves, and 

 yellow or rarely orange-red flowers, either on leafless, radical 

 peduncles, or in terminal corymbs or panicles on leafy stems. 

 Involucre more or less imbricated. Receptacle without scales. 

 Achenes angular or striated, not narrowed at the top ; with a 

 pappus of simple, generally stiff hairs, of a tawny white or brownish 

 colour. 



A large European and north Asiatic genus, with a few American 

 species, nearly allied to Crepis, but the achenes are not perceptibly 

 contracted at the top, and the hairs of the pappus are usually 

 stiff er and never so white. The habit is also different. Many 

 species are very variable and difficult to classify. 



Sub-Genus PILOSELLA Fries. 

 Hieracium aurantiacum L. (Plate XIX.) 



Rootstock with creeping underground stolons and putting up 

 barren tufts of leaves as well as flower-stems. Stem erect, scape- 

 like, very rough with stellate and long simple hairs, bearing from 

 1-3 leaves on the lower part, and terminating in from 2 to many 

 capitula arranged in a dense umbel, and rarely only one capitulum. 

 Leaves grass-green, ovate or linear-lanceolate, entire, acute or 

 obtuse, sessile or narrowed into a foot-stalk, more or less rough with 

 long, simple but not stellate hairs. Stalk of capitula and involucres 

 densely covered with stellate hairs, black glandular bristles, and 



