434 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



The radical leaves are numerous, rough, dry and 

 iapkfs, lanceolate, and either fparingly indented, 

 or more commonly laciniated half way to the 

 rib : the lacinia acute, and growing larger by 

 degrees towards the end of the leaf, which is 

 terminated with a triangular one. Thefe leaves 

 are covered with white rigid hairs, which are bi- 

 fid and trifid at the top. The floral ftalks are firm, 

 hairy, defbitute of leaves, eight or ten inches 

 high, and terminated each with a fingle yellow 

 flower. The calyx is hairy. The exterior florets 

 greenifli or olive-color'd on the under fide. The 

 feeds are longer than the down and fl:rlated : the 

 down is plumofe and fl:ands on a fhort pedicle. 

 That variety with leaves almofl: entire, or only fpa- 

 ringly indented, growns in dry mountainous and 

 fl:ony places. 

 The flowers generally open about four o'clock in 

 the morning, and fliut up at three in the after^ 

 noon. 



HIERACIUM. Gen, pL 913. 

 Recept, nudum. CaL imbricatus, ovatus. Pappus 

 fimpkx, fefiilis. 

 * Scapo nudo unifloro, 

 il'pinum I HERACIUM foliis oblongis integris dentatis, fca- 

 po fubnudo unifloro, calyce pilofo. Sp.pL 1124. 

 P^aj. Synop. p. 169. t. 6, f, 2. Moris, hift. f. 7. /. 

 7./. 5. bona. Pet, herb. /. 11./. 2 (^ fig, nojl,) 

 Alpine Hawkweed. Anglis, 



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