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fcapo fubnndo unifloro, calyce hirfuto. Sp. pL 

 1125. (Fig, nulla Jidenda.) 

 Hawkweed, with yellow Devil's-bit leaves. Jnglis, 

 In wet ground on the fides of the highland moun- 

 tains, but not common. We gathered it on the 

 fide of a mountain cail'd Ben na-Caillich^ in the 

 pari ill of Chrift's -Churchy in Strath-Swardie^ in 

 theiQeof Skye. %, VII. 

 The radical leaves are fmooth, narrow, lanceolate, 

 diftantly dented on the edges, and fometimes pin- 

 natifid or jagged half way to the rib: they have 

 lono- red footilalks, and the middle rib is reddifh : 

 the ftalk is fix inches high, fmooth towards the 

 bafe, but hairy at the top near the flower, defli- 

 tute of leaves, except three or four minute ru - 

 diments or hrauie^ towards the upper Parts, and 

 bears a fingle yellow flower : the calyx is black 

 and covered with fufcous hairs, and the top of 

 the ftalk jufl: under it is tumid : the feeds are 

 crown'd with a feflile plumoje down, which lafl: 

 charader does not belong to this ^^////j, and there- 

 fore Haller has placed it under his genus of Pi- 

 CRis. Hift. Helvet, n. 27. 



'pilofeUa 3. ]-^iERAClUM foliis integerrimis ovatis fubtus to^ 

 mentofis, ftolonibus repentibus, fcapo unifloro. 

 Lin.fyjl. nat.p. 522. Sp.fl. 1 125. {Gcr, em, 638. 

 /. 2. Pet. herb. t. 11. f. i. Mens. hift. f. 7. /. 8. 

 jig^ dua prim^ ordinisfuperioris, BlackwelL t, ^6^) 

 Moufc-tar Hawkweed. Jnglis. 



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