216 45. coMPOsii^. 



*»« Pruit not beaked, cylindrical. Pappus stiffs, brittle. 

 Ajracium Monn. 



6. C. paluddsa (Moench) ; phyll. lanceolate much attenuate 

 glandular-pilose, outer ones short, /. ovate-oblong taper-pointed 

 runcinate-dentate narrowed into a footstalk glabrous, upper I. 

 ovate-lanoeolate cordate and clasping acute entire or dentate, st. 

 subcorymhose, fr. striate scarcely narrowed upwards. — Hieracium 

 L. E. B. 1094. — St. 2 feet high, leafy, simple, angular. L. 

 large. Fl. yellow. — Damp woods and shady places. P. "VII. 

 — fs. " E. S. I. 



47. Hieea'oitjm, Linn} Hawkweed. 



i. PIL08ELL0IDEA. Stoloniferous. St. scapelike. Fr. 

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

 ■very slender. 



1. H. Pilosel'la (L.) ; stoles slender leafy 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, styles yellow. — E. B. 1093. — Stoles many, 

 sometimes flowering. Fl. pale yellow ; outer striped with- red 

 or purple externally. — jS. JS. Peleterianum (Mer.) ; stoles short 

 thick, 1. St. and inv. with long silky hairs, heads large, phyll. 

 all lanceolate. R. xix. 1468.— Dry banks. P. V.— VIII. 



E. S. I. 



*2. H. praten'se (Fr.) ; stoles leafy, st. pilose floccose and se- 

 tose above coiymbose at top, 1. narrowly obovate-lanceolate 

 green on both sides pilose slightly floccose beneath, phyll. 

 linear blunt, styles bright yellow. — H. collinum Fr. J. of B. vi. 

 t. 86. Edin. Bot. Tr. x. t. 1. — Stoles not very long. Corymbs 

 dense. Phyll. dark green hairy setose, with a pale margin and 

 tip. Fl. yellow.— Near Selkirk and Edinburgh. P. VI VII. 



S. 



[iZ. aurantiacum (L.) ; stoles often wanting, st. sligMly hairy 

 densely corymbose at top more hairy and setose above, I. obovate- 

 lanceolate green and hairy on both sides not fioccose beneath, 

 phyll. blunt, styles brown.— ^. B. 1469.— St. 15—20 in. high. 

 Phyll. dark. Fl. orange.^In the North, scarcely naturalized.] 

 P. VI.— VIII, I. 



\II. prcealtum, S. glomeratum, and S. stoloniferum have been 

 found as escapes in the South of Scotland.] 



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

 myself largely of the ' British Hieracia ' by my friend Mr. James 

 Backhouse. 



