198 45. compositjE. 



subcorymbose,fr. striated scarcely narrowed upwards. — Hieraeium 

 Sm., E. B. 1094. Aracium Neck., Soyera Monn.— St. 2 feet 

 high, leafy, simple, angular. L. large. Florets yellow. Pappus 

 in one row, rigid, brittle. — Damp woods and shady places. P. 

 VII.— IX. 



46. HiERACiUM Linn.^ Hawkweed. 



i. PILOSELLOIDEA. Stoloniferous. St. scapelike. Pr. 

 minute, crenulate at top, striate. Hairs of pappus equal, 

 slender. 



1. H. Pilosella (L.); stoles slender leaiy rooting, scape 1- 

 headed leafless, 1. oblong or lanceolate hairy on both sides whitish 

 and densely floccose beneath, inv. ovate below ultimately conical, 

 inner phyll. acute, fits, glabrous, styles yellow.— jE. B. 1093. — 

 Stoles slender, aerial, many, sometimes flowering. Fits, pale 

 yellow ; outer striped with red or purple externally. — (3. H. Pe- 

 leteriatmm (Mer.) ; stoles short thick, 1. st. and inv. with long 

 silky hairs, heads large, phyll. all lanceolate. — Dry banks. P. 

 v.— VIII. 



*2. H. anrantiacum (L.); stoles often wanting, st. slightly 

 hairy above densely corymbose at top hairy setose above, I. ob- 

 ovate-lanoeolate green and hairy on both sides not floccose be- 

 neath, phyll. blunt, fits, glabrous, styles brown. — E. B. 1469. — 

 St. 15—20 in. high. Corymb 2— 10-headed, floccose. Phyll. 

 dark. Fits, orange. — Woods and wastes in the north, naturalized. 

 P. VI.— VIII. 



ii. PULMONAREA. Radical rosettes in autumn. Root-1. 

 persistent. Phyll. interruptedly or irregularly imbricate. 

 Fr. short, truncate not crenulate, striate. Hairs of pappus 

 unequal, rigid. 



* AJpiniformes. Inv. shaggy or silky. Outer phyll. lax; 

 inner acuminate or acute. Fits, hairy externally, more or 

 less pilose at the tips. St.-l. I or few, or leaflike bracts. 



3. H. alpinum (L.) ; deep green, st. \-headed hairy floccose, 

 rt.-l. lanceolate or ovate-spicthulate narrowed into petioles, st.-l. 

 1 or few sessile, buds slightly nodding, inv. hemispherical shaggy 

 with long soft black-based liairs setose, phyll. few broad acumi- 

 nate lax, styles yellow. — 4 — 8 in. high. Usually 1 st.-leaf. 

 Head large, always solitary ; fits, bright yellow, with short hairs 

 at the top. — a. rt.-l. ovate-spathulate. — ^. insigne; rt.-l. lanceo- 



' A seta is a gland-tipped hair. — In this genus I have availed my- 

 self largely of the ' British Hieracia,' lately published by my friend 

 Mr. James Backhouse, Jun. 



