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form an irregular umbel, and there are often many others lower down in the 

 axils of the upper leaves. lurohicres and peduncles glabrous or shortly 

 downy. Leaves glabrous or hairy underneath ; the stems usually more or 

 less clothed at the base with long loose hairs. Scales of the involucre more 

 regularly imbricated than in the wall H., the outer ones usually spreading 

 at the tips. 



In woods and stony places or banks, throughout Europe and Russian 

 Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic regions. Tery common in Bri- 

 tain. Fl. late summer, and autumn. 



6. Savoy Hav^k-weed. Hieracium. sabaudum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 349. B. denticulatum, Eng. Bot. t. 2122. H. loreale 



Brit. Fl.) 



Although intermediate forms between this species and the last may occa- 

 sionally be found, yet they are in most cases easily distinguished. The 

 Savoy S., though stout and equally taU with the umbellate H., is less rigid 

 and more hairy ; the leaves larger, broader, and more toothed, the upper 

 ones shorter, always rounded at the base, and sometimes ahnost claspino' 

 the stem ; and the flowering branches form a loose corymb, and never an 

 umbel. From the wall R. it is distinguished by the more leafy stem, with- 

 out radical leaves at the time of flowering, and by the more regularly imbri- 

 cated involucres. 



In woods, under hedges, and in shady places, especially in hiUy districts, 

 in Europe, extending eastward to the confines of Siberia, and probably still 

 further into Asia, and northward to the Arctic regions. Distributed gene- 

 rally over Britain, but not so frequent as the umbellate 3. and especially the 

 wall H. Fl. late summer, and autumn. 



7. Frenantli Hawkreeed. Hieracium prenanthoides. Till. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 2235.) 



Tery near the Savoy II., but the stem-leaves are usually long, lanceolate, 

 and slightly narrowed near the base, and always clasp the stem by rounded 

 auricles, and even the stalks of the lower leaves are expanded at the base 

 into the same stem-clasping auricles. The involucres and peduncles have 

 usually more of the short, black, glandular hairs intermingled with the 

 minute down than either the Savoy H. or the umbellate H. 



In woods, shady places, and rich pastures, and on the banks of streams, 

 in northern Europe and the mountain districts of central Europe. Rare in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, and very doubtfully extending into England. 

 Fl. late summer, or autumn. 



XXXVIII. CHIC OR V. CICHORIUM. 



Perennials, with the leaves mostly radical, stiff branching stems, and ses- 

 sile heads of blue flowers. Involucres oblong. Achenes crowned by a ring 

 of minute erect scales. 



Besides the British species, the genus only includes the garden Endive, 

 generally supposed to be a native of India, but it is veiy doubtful if it be 

 wild even there, and it may be a mere cultivated variety of the common 

 wild C. 



