198 45. COMPOSITE. 



subcorymbose,fr. striated scarcely narrowed upwards. Hieracium 

 Sm., E. B. 1094. Aracium Neck., Soy era Monn. St. 2 feet 

 high, leafy, simple, angular. L. large. Florets yellow. Pappus 

 in one row, rigid, brittle. Damp woods and shady places. P. 



46. HIERACIUM Linn. 1 Hawk weed. 



i. PILOSELLOIDEA. Stoloniferous. St. scapelike. Fr. 

 minute, crenulate at top, striate. Hairs of pappus equal, 

 slender. 



1. H. Pilosella (L.); stoles slender leafy rooting, scape 1- 

 headed leafless, 1. oblong or lanceolate hairy on both sides whitish 

 and densely floccose beneath, inv. ovate below ultimately conical, 

 inner phyll. acute, fits, glabrous, styles yellow. E. B. 1093. 

 Stoles slender, aerial, many, sometimes flowering. Fits, pale 

 yellow; outer striped with red or purple externally. /3. jH. Pe- 

 leterianum (Mer.) ; stoles short thick, 1. st. and inv. with long 

 silky hairs, heads large, phyll. all lanceolate. Dry banks. P. 

 V. VIII. 



*2. H. aurantiacum (L.); stoles often wanting, st. slightly 

 hairy above densely corymbose at top hairy setose above, L ob- 

 ovate-lanceolate green and hairy on both sides not floccose be- 

 neath, phyll. blunt, fits, glabrous, styles brown. E. B. 1469. 

 St. 1520 in. high. Corymb 2 10-headed, floccose. Phyll. 

 dark. Fits, orange. Woods and wastes in the north, naturalized. 

 P. VI. VIII. 



\\.PULMONAEEA. Radical rosettes in autumn. Root-1. 

 persistent. Phyll. interruptedly or irregularly imbricate. 

 Fr. short, truncate not crenulate, striate. Hairs of pappus 

 unequal, rigid. 



* Alpiniformes. Inv. shaggy or silky. Outer phyll. lax; 

 inner acuminate or acute. Fits, hairy externally, more or 

 less pilose at the tips. St.-l. 1 or few, or leaflike bracts. 



3. H. alpinum (L.); deep green, st. \-headed hairy floccose, 

 rt.-l. lanceolate or ovate-sp&thulate narrowed into petioles, st.-l. 

 1 or few sessile, buds slightly nodding, inv. hemispherical shaggy 

 with long soft black-based hairs setose, phyll. few broad acumi- 

 nate lax, styles yellow. 4 8 in. high. Usually 1 st.-leaf. 

 Head large, always solitary ; fits, bright yellow, with short hairs 

 at the top. a. rt.-l. ovate-spathulate. /3. insigne ; rt.-l. lanceo- 



1 A seta is a gland-tipped hair. In this genus I have availed my- 

 self largely of the ' British Hieracia,' lately published by my friend 

 Mr. James Backhouse, Jun. 



