74 ON THE HIEBACIA OF SETTLE^ ETC. [April, 



In the fourth edition of Withering's Botany (1805) it is 

 mentioned as found by Mr, Caley near Ottermire (or Atter- 

 mire) Cave^ Settle^ Yorkshire. I have not the second or third 

 editions of Withering^ and no particular habitats for it are men- 

 tioned in the first edition. In the ^Botanist's Guide' (1805)^ 

 p. 708, the mistake is continued^ also on the authority of Mr, 

 Caley ; but in the same work (p. 707) there is a remark^ under 

 Hieracium murorum, or spotted variety^ that the late Mr, Tees- 

 dale intended to take it up as a distinct species, under the name 

 of Hieracium maculatum, as it did not vary by cultivation ; and 

 in this opinion Mr. Dawson Turner concurred, the latter remark- 

 ing that, besides preserving its spotted leaves, its habit was dis- 

 similar to that of H. murorum. From that period, it may be 

 remarked, H. murorum and H. caesium were not distinguished. 



In the list of plants appended to Whittaker's ' History of 

 Craven,' Hypochoeris maculata is also erroneously quoted as 

 growing about Attermire Cave; I refer to the second edition, 

 published in 1812. In Ray, the third edition, p. 167, Hyp. ma- 

 culata is not mentioned as growing near Settle ; but in the next 

 page the editor alludes to a spotted variety of Hieracium murorum. 

 Curtis, in his 'Catalogue of Plants growing about Settle' (1782), 

 only mentions two species, H. murorum and H. sabaudum, and 

 no Hypochceris. Of H. sabaudum he remarks, "This plant, in 

 its usual state, is extremely common. A variety, whose leaves are 

 spotted with redj and which is sometimes mistaken for the Hy- 

 pochoeris maculata, is frequent on the rocks in Grasswood, and 

 at Gordale." Curtis very probably here alludes (although ap- 

 parently wrong in calling it a variety of H. sabaudum) to the 

 plant which Mr. Backhouse has named H. Gibsoni. By my im- 

 mediate predecessors and co-botanists at Settle, Wm. Kenyon 

 and T. W. Simmonds, in 1808, it was called Hypochoeris macu- 

 lata ; but in a list of Settle plants which I possess, by the latter 

 gentleman, a mark of interrogation is afl&xed to the name, indi- 

 cating his doubt about it. Following them, I also at first mis- 

 named it Hypochceris maculata. In the year 1804 or 1805 I 

 saw the latter growing plentifully at Ompherhead, or Humphrey 

 Head, near Cartmel, but in places too inaccessible to be reached, 

 and therefore had not then an opportunity of comparing it with 

 our Settle plant. 



About the year 1810 my specimens of this plant (and other 



