Ilieracium.] SYNGENESIA — iEOUALlS. 293 



Fl. all summer. 1^. — Leaves all radical, segments more or less deep. 

 Scape with a single Jlower. 



11. BoRKHAusiA. Mce^nch. Borkhausia. 



1. IS.fdtida, DC. {stinking Borkhausia); leaves scabrous ses- 

 sile ruiicinato-pinnatifid upper ones lanceolate cut at the base, 

 stem hairy, involucre downy Crepisfcetida, L. — E. Bot. ^406. 



Dry chalky ground ; Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Kent. Fl. June, 

 July. $ — Stem spreading. Corollas red externally. The herb is very 

 milky, and said to diffuse a smell resembling bitter almonds. 



12. HiERACiUM. Linn. Hawk weed. 

 * Scape leajless or rarehj with one leaf, single-Jlowered. 



1. H. alpinum, L. (alpine single-Jlowered Hawkweed) ; scape 

 single-flowered nearly leafless hairy as well as the oblongo- 

 lanceolate almost entire leaves, involucre thickly clothed with 

 long silky hairs. B. Bot. t.W 10. — ;3. taller, radical leaves tooth- 

 ed. H. Halleri, and H. hybridum, Vill. — H. villosuin, Sm. E, Bot. 

 t. 2379, (not of Jacq. Austr. t. 87.) 



Elevated rocky mountains, especially in Scotland. Snowdon. Near 

 Llyn-y-Cwn, N. Wales. /3. Highland mountains of Scotland. Fl. July, 

 Aug. 1^. — 4 — 6 or more inches high. Leaves with numerous, whitish 

 hairs, especially at the base, where they taper \nio petioles. Hairs, on the 

 upper part of the scape, black at the base, and often mixed with minute, 

 black, glandulose ones. Involucre thickly clothed all over with dingy- 

 coloured or fulvous, long silky hairs. Flower always solitary, large, of 

 a full yellow. 



2. H. Pilosella, \j.(common Mouse-ear Hawkweed); scape one- 

 flowered leafless, leaves entire elliptico-lanceolate hairy, downy 

 beneath, scyons creeping. E. Bot. t. 1093. 



Banks and dry pastures, frequent. Fl. May — July. If. . — Distinguish- 

 able, at all times, by its creeping scyons. Flowers of a pale lemon- 

 yellow. 



** Scape leajless or rarely with one leaf many-Jloxoered. 



3. H.*dubium, L. (branching 3Iouse-ear Hawkweed); scape 

 many-flowered leafless (or with 1 small leaf), leaves entire ellip- 

 tico-lanceolate with only a few scattered hairs, scyons creeping. 

 E. Bot. t. 2352. 



Said to have been found in Westmoreland and Scotland. Fl. July. 

 1^ Taller and slenderer than the last, with smaWer flowers. 



4. H.*aura7itiacum, L. (orange Hawkweed); scape nearly leaf- 

 less simple hairy bearing a corymb of many flowers, leaves obo- 

 vato-lanceolate entire rough with longish hairs. E. Bot. t. 1469. 



Woods in Banffshire and near Tarref. Coalston woods, E. Lothian. 

 Woods east of Kenmore. Failsworth, near Manchester. Fl. July. 1^. 

 — Hairs long on the upper part of the scape ; black at the base, as they 

 are upon the involucre ; sometimes all black, hence often called Grim- 

 the- Collier. Flowers deep orange. 



5. ll.*Auricida, L. (orange Mouse-ear Haickweed) ; '' leaves 



