186 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



long black hairs. Flowers a beautiful orange-red, sometimes almost 

 crimson. 



Rough Alpine pastures and steep, bushy places up to 7200 feet. 

 June, July. 



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

 Erzgebirge, Black Forest, Vosges, Jura. Northern Europe as far 

 as Norway. Sometimes naturalized in Britain ; and frequently 

 seen in cottage-gardens. It seeds very freely. 



Hieracium pilosella L. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 



A small and variable species, with spreading tufts of root-leaves 

 and creeping, leafy, barren shoots. Leaves lanceolate, entire, 

 tapering at the base, and often stalked, green above, hairy, white 

 beneath, with short stellate hairs. Peduncles radical, with a single 

 head of lemon-coloured flowers, sometimes tinged with red on the 

 outside. Involucres more or less covered with close, whitish down 

 and stiff, spreading black hairs. Achenes rather short. 



Dry pastures and banks from the plains up to 8200 feet. May 

 to July. 



Distribution. Europe and Russian Asia. Common in Britain. 

 Very variable in Southern Europe and the Alps. 



Sub-genus STENOTHECA Fries 

 Hieracium staticifolium Vill. (Plate XV.) 



Glaucous and glabrous or sometimes somewhat hairy. Stem 

 simple or slightly branched, usually leafless, with a few bracts at 

 the top. Leaves radical, linear-lanceolate or linear, entire or 

 slightly toothed, attenuated into a foot-stalk, glabrous and glaucous. 

 Capitula 1-3, but usually solitary, large. Flowers pale yellow, 

 turning green on being dried. Involucral bracts' mealy, linear- 

 acute. 



Moraines and sandy river beds and high stony pastures up to 8000 

 feet. June to September. 



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

 Provence. 



Sub-genus EUHIERACIUM Torr. et Gray. 

 Hieracium glaucum All. (H. porrifolium Vill. non L.). 



Closely resembling the last, with which it has sometimes been 

 confused. Glabrous and glaucous. Stem erect, 10-18 inches high, 

 leafy, loosely paniculate. Stalk of capitula with small scaly bracts 

 above, and like the involucre, nearly glabrous or greyish, with a fine 

 mealy down. Involucral bracts obtuse, adpressed. Leaves rather 

 thick, very narrow, bluish green, linear-lanceolate, sessile, entire or 

 slightly toothed. Flowers yellow. Capitula usually solitary. 



