COMPOSITE. 179 



stem 6 to 18 inches high, branched from about the middle. 

 Eadical leaves 3 to (5 inches long, sharply dentate, especially 

 towards the base, where the teeth are sometimes triangular and 

 longer than broad, but more generally small ; lower stem-leaves 

 nearly as large as the root -leaves, generally oblong, but when 

 the lowest one is near the base of the stem it is sometimes sub- 

 panduriform, being considerably narrowed immediately above and 

 then again expanded at the base; leaves at the base of the branches 

 rather short, ovate-triangular, completely amplcxicaul. Plorets 

 rather pale-yellow. Plant appearing yellowish-green from the 

 number of viscous glands with which it is covered ; base of the 

 petioles and lower leaves sometimes with simple hairs as well as 

 glandular ones. 



A species very distinct from all the others which have been 

 found in Britain. 



Aniplexiccml-leaved Hawkioeed. 



French, Epervih-e embrassarUe. German, Aestiges Ilabichtskraut. 



Group C— CERINTHOIDEA. 



Plant glaucous, not glandular, with simple or denticulated 

 hairs. Neck of the rootstock not densely clothed with single 

 woolly hairs. Radical leaves in a rosette, persistent until after 

 flowering ; stem with few leaves, sometimes large. Phyllaries 

 with simple or gland-tipped hairs. Elorets ciliated. Achenes 

 large, blackish-brown. 



SPECIES XIV.— HIERACIUM ANGLICUM. Fries. 



Plates DCCCXXXVI. DCCCXXXVII. 



Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 203. Fries, Epic. p. 57. 



H. cerinthoides, Back. Mon. Hier. p. 36. Hook. & Am. Brit. FL ed. viiL p. 222 



(non Linn, nee Fries). 

 EL. Lawsoni, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 20S3 (nou Vill.). 



Stem corymbosely branched at the apex, more rarely simple, 

 sparingly clothed with simple white or black-based hairs, the 

 upper part and peduncles generally with black gland-tipped hairs 

 and stellate down. Radical leaves oval or elliptical, contracted 

 into rather long densely - woolly petioles, subacute or acute, or 

 acuminate, denticulate or dentate (especially towards the base) or 

 nearly entire on the margins, sparingly clothed with simple hairs 

 beneath, and not unfrequently above also ; stem-leaves 1 or 2, 

 the lower one attenuated and often sub - petiolate at the base, 

 usually scmi-amplexicaul ; upper one, when present, lanceolate, 



