CLASS XIX. ORDER I.] HIERACIUM. 1037 
English Botany, t. 1093.—English Flora, vol. ili. p. 356.— Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 293.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 159. 
Root tapering, somewhat woody. Stem very short, putting out 
several prostrate creeping scyons, from four to six inches long, clothed 
especially towards the root with long spreading silky hairs, and bear 
ing a few alternate small leaves. Leaves obovate lanceolate, obtuse, 
or lanceolate, tapering into a slender or broadish footstalk, a glaucous 
green above, and scattered over with long bristly hairs, pale beneath 
and hoary, with close woolliness. Scape erect, three or four inches 
high, round, clothed with close hoary pubescence, and scattered over 
below, but above and the involucre almost black, with short black 
glandular tipped bristles. Involucre cylindrical, its scales lanceolate, 
imbricated, the inner ones thin, and membranous. florets pale 
lemon colour, the outer ones with a crimson stripe at the back. 
Fruit oblong, smooth, striated, brown. Pappus pale dirty brown, 
rigid, rough. 
Habitat—Banks, open pastures, old walls, &c.; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering from May to July. 
From the habit of this plant it is very variable in its appearance, 
from being almost smooth sometimes, and at others very woolly, with 
close pubescence, and long spreading silky hairs. It is an extremely 
hardy plant, and often may be seen elevating its head, and expanding 
its elegant pale yellow flowers when all others are dried up by the 
heat and want of moisture. 
x Stem leafless, or with one leaf, many flowered. 
3. H. Auri'cula, Linn. (Fig. 1218.) Orange Mouse-ear Hawk-weed. 
Scape naked, or with a single leaf, two to five flowered; peduncles 
corymbose ; scyons creeping; leaves elliptic, lanceolate, glaucous 
green, smooth, ciliated towards the base. 
De Cand. Prod. vol. vii. p. 201.—Koch. Flora German. et Helv. p. 
446.—H. dubium—English Botany, t. 2332—English Flora, vol. 
iii. p. 356.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 293.—Lindley, 
Synopsis, p. 159. 
fioot fibrous. Stem very short, putting out several prostrate 
creeping scyons, four to eight inches long, with alternate small leaves 
Leaves elliptic lanceolate, smooth, green above, glaucous beneath the 
margin, ciliated, especially towards the base, with silky or rigid hairs. 
Flowering stem erect, round, about four inches high, more or less 
clothed with glandular pubescence, bearing two or three heads of 
flowers, in a sub-umbellate manner. Jnvolucre of lanceolate scales, 
imbricated and rough, with short glandular pubescence. Florets 
linear, tpale lemon colour. Fruit with rough pale dirty brown 
pappus. 
Habitat.— Moist places on mountains. “ Said to have been found 
in Westmoreland and Scotland.” 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
