210 * ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SO, and more acuminate, beginning to taper immediately above 

 the broad rounded base ; the anthodes considerably smaller ; the 

 peduncles more erect, generally with less stellate down ; the phyl- 

 laries rather narrower and less obtuse. 



From n. corymbosum it differs in the leaves being thinner, 

 less strongly toothed, rather less amplexicaul, more hairy, and not 

 so numerous ; the anthodes smaller, much less numerous, and not 

 in a large compound corymb, on longer and thicker and much more 

 erect peduncles, with less stellate down and short black hairs ; the 

 phyllaries rather more acute, with more numerous gland-tipped 

 hairs, and in the florets not being quite glabrous at the tip when 

 in bud ; but the ciliation of the ligules and the colour of the styles, 

 I believe to be characters of very little importance. 



Straight-branched Hawkweed. 



Group D.— PRENANTHOIDEA. 



Stem leafy, without a basal rosette, corymbosely or paniculato- 

 corymbosely branched at the apex. Lower leaves narrowed toAvards 

 the base ; middle and upper ones amplexicaul with rounded auricles, 

 glaucous and reticulate beneath, from the ultimate veins being 

 apparent. Phyllaries few, imperfectly in 2 series ; those of the 

 outer series very few, unequal ; all dark-olive, and thickly clothed 

 with gland-tipped hairs ; the inner ones with pale margins ; none 

 of them squarrose at the points. Achenes rather small, pale reddish- 

 brown when ripe. 



SPECIES XXXV.— HIERACIUM PREN ANTHOIDES. 



Vill. 

 Plate DCCCLVIII. 



Back. Mon. Hier. p. G9. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 207. nook. & Am. Brit. FI, 

 ed. viii. p. 230. 



Stem very leafy, corymbosely or subpaniculato - corymbosely 

 branched at the apex, sub-glabrous or sparingly hairy below, with 

 black-based hairs above ; peduncles clothed with stellate down 

 and very numerous gland-tipped hairs. Leaves distributed over 

 the whole stem ; the lower ones oblanceolate, narrowed at the base 

 or sub-petiolate with indistinct shortly-winged petioles ; inter- 

 mediate ones elliptical-oblong sub-panduriform, amplexicaul with 

 rounded auricles, acute ; uppermost ones lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, amplexicaul with rounded auricles, acuminate ; all sub- 

 entire or denticulate in the middle, with the teeth remote and 



