SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JRQ. Hieracium. 225 



Seed-down of central flowers sometimes tapering out into a kind 

 of short, small foot-stalk, feathered, brownish white, which 

 colour readily distinguishes it from Hypocheeris radicata. 



HIERA'CIUM.' Hawkweed.^ ^ 



H. Pilosella. Common Blouse-ear H> Leaves elliptical, 

 entire ; cottony beneath. Scyons creeping. Stalks 

 single-flowered, naked. E. B. 1093. C. 4. 54. 

 Pilosella repens. G. E, 638. 



* Stalk naked, single-jioivered, immediately from Hie root. 

 Dry, open pastures, banks. 

 Per. June. 



Florets pale yellow above, elegantly striped with red beneath. 

 According to Gerarde powerfully astringent. A cochineal 

 insect (coccus,) found on the roots, according to Linn. Fl. Suec. 

 ** Stem leafy. 



H. muTorum, Broad-leaved Wall H. Stem corymbose, 

 with a solitary leaf. Leaves egg-heart-shaped, wavy, 

 with radiating teeth chiefly at the base. E. B. 2082. 

 Pulmonaria gallica, sive aurea latifolia. G. E. 304, 



Old walls. Sm. Magdalen College Walks. Bx, 

 Per. June. 



Smith in Eng. Botany, under plant figured for Hier. murorum 

 (2082) observes: Hier. sylvaticum t. 2031, we presume to be 

 the murorum of all our local Floras. 



" The Hier. murorum of Dr. Sihthorp's Fl. 0.von. is, undoubt- 

 edly, the H. sylvaticum of Sir J. E. Smith's Eng. Flora, which is 

 now (September, 1831) growing in gi'eat plenty on the walls of 

 Wadham College garden, but where 1 could not find a single plant 

 of H. murorum. 



There are no specimens of perfect plants, that I know, of Dr. 

 Sibthorp's in the Sherardian Herbarium ; but when he arranged 

 that collection according to the Linnsean arrangement, he appears 

 to have considered the H. murorum, maculatum, and sylvaticum 

 of Smith as mere varieties of the same species." B.v. 



H. sylvaticum. Wood H. Stem simply racemose, 

 many-leaved, solid. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, toothed 

 chiefly about the base ; teeth pointing forward. E. B. 

 2031. H. murorum. Fl. Br. 830, a. Sb. 241. 



Dry, chalky ivoods, dry banks, old park ivalls. Sm. Wadham 

 College Wall. Stow Wood. Sb. Magdalen College Walks. 

 Bx. 



Per. July. 



* A most intricate and difficult genus. - Ang.-Sax. 



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