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brownish, persistent and bi^Ittle. Receptacle nearly naked, dotted. 

 Invoh imbricated. — N'ame : Upaiziov^ name of a plant ; so called 

 from hp(f^^ n^Jiawk; because birds of prey wei^e imagined to 

 employ tbis plant to strengthen their powers of vision. 



1, Plants producing scions. Ligiiles glabrous at the apex. Achenes 



minnte^ striate : hairs of the pappus equal, very slender 



1. H. Pilosella L- (couimon Mouse-ear H.) ; leaves entire 

 elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate hairy with dense stellate down 

 beneath, primary stem 1 -headed leafless, involucre ovate at the 

 base, inner scales acute and narrower than the outer ones. 

 £. J?, t. 1093. 



Banks and dry pastures, frequent. %, 5 — 8, — Florets of a pale 

 lemon-yellow, those of the ray with red stripes on the back. The 

 leafy scions (stolons) sometimes produce a flowering terminal stem in 

 the plants of this section ; and we must carefully distinguish such 

 from the primary or true stem. 



[We omit here H. duhium Huds, not Linn, as it is now quite 

 uncertain what plant was intended ; the description given by Wood- 

 ward in With. Bot. Arr., and the fig. in E. B. t. 23 32, both of 

 garden specimens, belonging; to //. stoloniferum W. and K., while 

 Smith's description in the Engl. Fl. is taken from IT, Aiiricida L. 

 We also omit //. Auricula L. said to have been found in W^estmore- 

 land, the description and figure, E, B. t. 2368, given by Smith, being 

 taken from a Swiss specimen of //. glaciale Lach. 



2. H, '^' auraniidciimJj, (0?^a7ige 11.^ ; leaves entire obovato- 

 lanceolate green with longish hairs and no stellate down on 

 both sides, scape leafy near the base hairy bearing a corymb of 

 many flowers, involucre blackish and hispid with black hairs, 

 inner scales broadest obtuse. JE. B. t. 1469. 



Hilly woods In various parts of England and Scotland, but an 

 outcast from cottage gardens, whei^e it is common. 2Jl • 6, 7. — 

 Hairs lonrr npon the upper part of the scape; black at the base, as 

 they arc upon the involucre, mixed with black seta? ; hence often 

 called Grim-the- Collier, Flowers deep orange. Sfj/Ie dark brown. 



2. Plants producing (in avfnmn) a tuft of spreading leaves about the 



root. 



Achenes large. Hairs of the pappus U7iequal, 



3. H. 



'^ villosiim L. (shaggy IL) ; leaves glaucous without 

 glands shaggy with long soft flexuose hairs, upper ones ovate 



vho!. ?[ ^^*^^-^^;^^^''^^^^'"^^''*^^ to be either permanentlv yellow, or covered, 

 ^v I f ^^ "^^»'^'''t^ ^^^^"^*^'^^^^^'^i''S. The ligules bein^ ciliated (furnished 

 r-ip nr^ hairs), or glabrous at the apex, is usually of conseqtieuee •, but this cha- 

 7i'/.L^ ^^^\ n . ^"^ *'''' *" ^^^ unexpanded florets. —As in the genera Bosa and 

 h t tw'"'*" . ''^^ for brevity call the rigid hairs bpariiig glands bv the name oi' sefa^ ; 

 ehn .^f?^ ^"^'^ gradually into black hairs tipped with a white hair instead of a 



Use. f.M r?''"™'''^?'^^.'^''''^'^ either with or without a bulbous black 



^'ise, so that characters obtained from them cannot be of great value. 



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