IfiG EXGLISn BOTANY. 



farnislicd on both sides and on the petioles with loni^ ratlier stiff 

 hairs. Scape erect, 2 to 15 inches high, leafless, but sometimes 

 with 1 to 3 small hairy bracts, more or less clothed with stellate 

 down (especially towards the top) and short black gland-tipped 

 hairs frequently intermingled with long black-based simple hairs. 

 Pericline about ^ inch long ; phyllaries clothed with stellate down, 

 black gland-tipped hairs, and elongate simple black-based hairs in 

 variable proportions. Florets pale-yellow, the exterior ones red or 

 purple on the back. Achenes ^o inch long, cylindrical-striate, nearly 

 black. Pappus dirty-white, brittle. 



Var. is usually a more hairy plant, and the leaves are often 

 narrow, but the only tangible difference is the short stolons, which 

 do not root until after flowering, and have the leaves sometimes so 

 close together that they may almost be said to be in a rosette. 



Mouse-ear Sawkweed. 



French, Eperviere Filoselle. German, Gemeines IlahidUskraut. 



This plant differs from all other milky-juiced plants, being less bitter and more 

 astringent. Its common English name is derived from the notion that the hairy ter- 

 mination of its leaves resembles a mouse's ear. Its pale lemon-coloured blossoms have, 

 in favourable seasons, the smell of raspberry jam. In Gloucestershire, and probably 

 elsewhere in the South, a beautiful little gold and green bci tie haunts this flower, 

 loving to 



" Sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day," 



and at certain angles of view is scarcely distinguishable, by reason of its lustre. 



We find in Culpepper's Herbal that this plant, if " outwardly applied, is singular 

 good for all the defects and diseasses of the eyes, used with some women's milk," and 

 that " the distilled water cleanseth the skin, and taketh away freckles, spots, morphew, 

 or wrinkles in the face." 



SPECIES II.— HIE RACIUM AURANTIACUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXXIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 41 3. 



Reidi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLXXIV. Fig. 2. 

 Back. Mon. Hier. p. 15. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 200. Hook, t Am. Brit. FL 

 ed. viii. p. 187. Fries, Epic. p. 24. 



Stolons short, often absent. Leaves oblanceolate or elliptical- 

 oblanceolatc, entire, sub-acute, with long hairs on both sides, nearly 

 or quite destitnte of stellate down beneath. Scapes leafy below ; 

 leaves sessile, narrowed at the l)ase. Antliodes lew, corymbose. 

 Pericline ovate-ovoid. Phyllaries obtuse. Styles brown. 



In pastures and woods. Not native, but naturalized in many 

 places in Scotland and the North of England. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial, Summer. 



