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The ftalks are upright, branched, and fpread- 
ing, of a pale green, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are oblong, and moderately broad ; 
and they are very deeply jagged at the edges: 
their colour is a fine green; and they are per- 
fectly fmooth. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks ; 
and they are fmall, and of a deep yellow. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in 
July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Cichoreum pratenfe Inteum 
levius. Others, Hierachium apbacoides. 
Thefe three fpecies are very common in our 
paftures ; and they appear under various forms, 
according to the degree of nourifhment each re- 
ceives. Hence authors, who judged too fuper- 
ficially, have divided them into a number of 
_kinds taller or lower, and with more or lefs jagged 
leaves: but thefe three are the real fpecies. 
4. Strong-fcented Hawkweed. 
Hieracium caftorei odore. 
The root is compofed of long, thick fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, branched, and two feet 
high. 
The leaves are long, moderately broad, hairy, 
deeply indented, and of a pale green. 
The flowers are large and yellow ; and, before 
they open, the bud hangs drooping. 
We have it on dry banks in our midland coun- 
ties. It flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Hieracium caftorei odore Monfpelien- 
iM, 
This fpecies, when lefs nourifhed, has the 
leaves lefs divided, and has in this ftate been con- 
fidered by fome as a diftinét fpecies, 
5. Broad-leaved Mountain Hawkweed. 
Heracium latifolium montanum. 
‘The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is weak, branehed, of a deep green, 
The leaves are very broad, oblong, hairy, and 
of a dufky colour. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale yellow. 
It is common in our northern counties, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieracium smontanum latifo. 
lium glabrum minus. Clufius, Hieracium Britan- 
wicun. 
6. Great jagged-leaved Hawkweed. 
Hiervacium laciniatum majus. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The ftalk is round, firm, and two feet and 
half high. 
The leaves are long, moderately broad, deeply 
finuated, and rough. ; 
The flowers are large, and of a deep yel- 
ow. ' 
It is found on ditch-banks in fandy foils, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
C, Bauhine calls it Hieracium maximum chon- 
drille folio afperum. Others, Hieracium cichorei 
folio majus. 
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7. Rough-headed Hawkweed. 
Hieracium afperius capitulis foliofis. 
The root is long and flender, and has abun- 
dance of fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it fpread circularly 
upon the gtound; and are long, narrow, of 4 
yellowith green, and very rough to the touch. 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, and a foot 
and half high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root-; but they are not altogether fo rough. 
The flowers are large and yellow; and they 
ftand in a kind of leafy heads, refembling, thofe 
of the carduus benediétus. 
It is common on ditch-banks, and Aowers in 
July. , 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieracium echicides capitulis 
cardui benediiti. Our people, Lang de deitf. 
8. Dwarf Hawkweed, with finuated leaves, 
Hieracium puinilum foliis finuatis. 
The root is long and fender. A 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, foft, of a 
pale green, and finuated deeply at the edges. 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, and three 
inches high ; and they are almoft naked. 
The flowers ftand at the tops, and are fmall 
and yellow. 
It is frequent in Suffex on heaths, and flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it Hieraciam parvum in arenofis nafcens 
feminum pappis denficus radiatis. 
g. Great-flowered rough Hawkweed. 
Hieracium afperium flore majore. 
The root is long, and hung with many fibres, 
The ftalk is upright, round, hairy, two feet 
high, branched, and of a brown colour. 
The leaves are long, narrow, rough to the 
touch, and deeply finuated. 
The flowers are large, and yellow. 
We have it in corn-fields, where it flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cichorium pratenfe luteum bir» 
fuium afperum, Ray, Hieracium afperum major; 
flore. 
10. Dwarf rough Hawkweed. 
Hieracium pumilum afperum. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, con- 
nected to an abrupt head. 
‘The leaves are long, narrow, a little finuated 
at the edges, and rough tothe touch. 
The ftalks are tough, and eight inches high, 
and the flowers {mall and yellow. 
Tt is found on dry banks in Kent, flowering 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieracium pumilum faxatilg 
afperum radice premorfa. Columna, Hieracium 
Jaxatile montanum, 
11. Great-flowered broad-leaved Hawkweed. 
Hieracium latifolium magno flore. 
The rogt is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The 
