1857.] ON THE HIERACIA OP SETTLE, ETC. 75 



Hieracia), of which I had many, were submitted to the inspec- 

 tion of Mr. Sowerby ; and the name of Hieracium murorum var. 

 foliis maculatis was then, I believe, affixed to them, instead of 

 Hypochceris maculata. 



Of the other Hieracia now enumerated as growing near 

 Settle, I may again observe that of H. cerinthoides, form angli- 

 cum, or H. Lawsoni of Smith, T had collected specimens in se- 

 veral localities near there. It is generally very villous, shaggy 

 ' about the lower part of the stem and root-leaves, and hence 

 might at first sight be mistaken for H. villosum, which Mr. Caley 

 stated he had found at Meer Gill, foot of Ingleborough. In 

 company with T. W. Simmonds, I have in vain looked for it in 

 this locality, but afterwards thought I had found it near the 

 summit of that mountain, erroneously, it appears, mistaking for 

 it a form, of H. cerinthoides. 



H. Lawsoni, although not described in Smith's ' Flora Bri- 

 tannica,' or in Withering's fourth edition, is mentioned by Eay, 

 third edition, p. 169, under the name of H. macrocaulon hirsu- 

 ium, or, according to Smith, of H. leptocaulon hirsutum, as found 

 at Gordale by Dr. Kichardson. Backhouse however refers the 

 former synonym to H. pallidum. 



The last-named species, H. pallidum, is now said to have been 

 found sparingly at Gordale, and to be the same as the E[. qreades 

 of Fries. I long ago frequently noticed the abundance of Hie- 

 racia on the rocks at Gordale, but did not then detect this form, 

 described by Backhouse, and enumerated also by Babington. 



Of H. murorum and H. caesium, although long bearing the 

 name of the former only, I have many specimens, which I col- 

 lected near Settle in the earlier period of this century. 



H. vulgatum [sylvaticum) was formerly confounded with H. 

 murorum, even by Smith himself, in the ' Flora Britannica,' and 

 hence I did not distinguish it in the neighbourhood of Settle 

 until about the years 1805 to 1813, when I collected and first 

 named it correctly. A form of it, collected in Mill Island, I 

 misnamed formerly H. Lapeyrousii {iricum) . 



Since I resided at Settle H. prenanthoides has been found, as 

 mentioned in the list, in two places near there, also H. umbella- 

 tum in one or two places, and H. crocatum is said to have been 

 found on Attermire Scars, but I have not yet seen satisfactory 

 specimens from this localitv. 



