{April, 1857.] 73 



ON THE HIERACIA OF SETTLE, 

 etc. By John Windsor^ F.L.S. 



In the list of Settle or Craven Plants, publishing in the ' Phy- 

 tologist/ I enumerated the species of Hieracium, from my notes 

 written at the time I was residing in that neighbourhood. 



Mr. Baker, of Thirsk, who has paid much attention to this 

 genus, kindly inspected my specimens, collected there many 

 years ago ; and by his aid an amended list of them Avas published 

 in the ' Phy tologist ' for October last. 



A few additional remarks on the subject may perhaps not be 

 objectionable, especially as the genus is one which has of late 

 years, like some others, as Rubus, Rosa, Salix, etc., undergone 

 considerable investigation and elucidation, or at least multiplica- 

 tion of species, by the accurate attention applied to it by a suc- 

 cession of eminent botanists. ■ 



These few observations however are now added rather by way 

 of explanation of my first list, than of any novelty or particular 

 information I can adduce on the subject. 



First, then, with regard to the plant named in Backhouse^s 

 late excellent and elaborate ' Monograph on British Hieracia,' 

 Hieracium Gibsoni, I may be permitted to observe, that I can 

 scarcely admit with him that it was discovered by the late 

 Samuel Gibson, inasmuch as it' was well known to myself and 

 predecessors for many years, I believe, before Mr. Gibson had 

 ever visited the neighbourhood of Settle. I would not however 

 object to the name, if it be really a distinct species, and not 

 merely a spotted form or variety of H. ccesiwn or H. pallidum, 

 from the pains he took in distinguishing it (as seen in the fii'st 

 volume of the ' Phy tologist ^) from Hypoclioeris maculata, to 

 which, by its spotted leaves, it bears a resemblance, and with 

 which it was at one time certainly confounded. How this first 

 occurred I do not exactly know. 



In 1795, in 'English Botany,' Hypochoeris maculata is said to 

 grow in the sequestered country about Malham Cove, but no 

 particular authority is named. In Smith's ' Flora Britannica ' 

 (1800) it is mentioned, ^on the authority of Mr. Caley (in Wi- 

 thering's Botany), to grow near Settle; and the same quotation 

 is continued in Smith's ' English Flora' (1825). 



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