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lance-shaped and scarcely, if at all, cut. The flower-stalk pro- 

 ceeds also from the root, and rises from 2 to 6 or 8 inches high, 

 bearing a large head of yellow florets, which when ripe forms a 

 globular head of delicate feathered seeds. This and var. /3 grow 

 abundantly in the neighbourhood. (E. B. t. 510, 553.) P. m.-x. 



KIERACIUM. HAWKWEED. 



1. H. Pilosella (common mouse-ear H.) In dry pastures, 

 on banks and roadsides. Plant from 3 to 6 inches high. Root 

 giving off creeping scions; leaves radical, lanceolate, tapering 

 towards the stem, having a few hairs on their upper surface, but 

 with a white down on their under sides. Flower-stalks with a 

 single head of light-yellow flowers, frequently tinged with red on 

 the outside. Daddyhole Plain. Babbicombe, etc. (E. B. t. 

 1093.) P. v.-vin. 



2. H. murorum (wall H.) On banks and old walls, in 

 meadows and pastures. Flower-stems erect, from 1 to 2 feet 

 high, with one or two leaves rising out of a spreading tuft of ra- 

 dical leaves, rather large and ovate, coarsely toothed ; flower-heads 

 large and yellow, generally 3 or 4, but sometimes many more, in 

 a loose terminal corymb. Banks, old walls, and rocks about Tor- 

 quay. High Tor rocks. Rocks near Dunsford, Fl. D. (E.B.t. 

 2082.) P. vi. vn. 



3. H. umbellatum (narrow-leaved H.) In woods, hedges, 

 and stony places, not uncommon. Root forming buds in the 

 autumn, which do not expand into a tuft of spreading leaves, but 

 in the following summer rise up into a leafy, erect stem, from 1 

 to 4 feet high, spreading out at the top into an umbel-like corymb 

 of 5 or more flower-heads, bearing yellow florets. Leaves of the 

 flower-stem linear or nearly so, coarsely toothed, nearly sessile. 

 Holne Chase. Ivybridge. Near Dartmouth Castle. Gidleigh, 

 near Chagford. Fingle bridge, on the Teign. (E. B. t. 1771.) P. 

 vn.-ix, 



4. H. boreale (shrublylroad-leaved H.) In woods and shady 

 places, or under hedges. Plants from 2 to 4 feet high. Stem 

 leafy ; leaves oval-lance-shaped, upper ones sessile, lower almost 

 narrowed into a stalk. Flower-heads in a leafy corymb ; flowers 

 pale-yellow. Ivybridge. N. Bovey, Hermock, Fl. D. (E. B., H. 

 Subaudum, t. 349.) P. Tin. ix. 



LAPSANA. NIPPLE-WORT. 

 Id. communis (common N.) Common on hedge-banks, waste 



