Hieracium.] composit.i;. S87 



****** " Pappus rigid, hrittle, at length brownish or yellowish. Otherwise like 

 the preceding section." — Bab. Man. 



XIj. Hiebacium, Linn. Hawkweed. 



" Achenes angular, furrowed, with an entire or toothed margin 

 at the top without a beak. Pappus pilose, in one row, frequently 

 brownish, persistent and brittle. Receptacle nearly naked, dotted. 

 Involucre imbricated." — Br. Fl. 



* Stem resembling a scape or leafless. 



1. H. Pilosella, L. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. " Leaves entire 

 elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate hairy with dense stellate down 

 beneath, primary stem 1 -headed leafless, involucre ovate at the 

 base, inner scales acute and narrower than the outer ones." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 209. E. B. t. 1093. 



|3. Scions shovt, leaves narvow-lanceolate, very white beneath with dense woolly 

 tomentum, and shaggy on both sides with long silky hairs ; involucre very villous; 

 flowers large. H. pelelerianum, Merat, Nouv. Fl. des Env. de Paris, p. 305 ? 



On dry short pastures, heaths, banks, walls, rocks and waste barren places ; very 

 common. Fl. May — August. If ■ 



/3. On the chalky cliffs near Freshwater gate, Albert Hambrough, Esq., 1849 !!! 



** Stem more or less leafy. 



3. H. vulgatum, Fr. Common Hawkweed. " Stem usually 

 with several leaves branched upwards and subcorymbose or forked 

 slightly hairy, leaves ovate- lanceolate toothed with the teeth 

 pointing upwards somewhat hairy, radical ones stalked usually 

 tapering into the petiole, cauline ones stalked or sessile, pedun- 

 cles at the apex and the involucre with more or less stellate down 

 mixed sometimes with black hairs or setse, ' inner scales bluntish 

 in bud incumbent upon and not longer than the florets,' ligules 

 glabrous at the apex."— 5r. Fl. p. 213. E. B. t. 2031. 



In dry woods and thickets, on walls, banks and sandy, gravelly or chalky pas- 

 tures ; rather rare. Fl. June, July. If. 



E. Med. — In a sandy lane between Morton farm and the grove. In the road 

 between Little Briddlesford and Woodhouse farm. Boadside just before coming 

 to New copse, near Wootton bridge, Dr.Bell-Salter .'.'.' I find it also in the gra- 

 vel-pits nearly opposite the last station, in the angle of the road leading to Fish- 

 bourne. On Bordwood heath, and on a bank by the roadside going from thence 

 towards Winston. Amongst the rocks at East-end. Plentiful in East-Standen 

 copse, near Newport, mostly by the pathside through the wood. On Blackpan 

 common, between Burnt-house and Lake. 



W. Med. — In a copse (Symington copse) near Northwood church. 



Herb slightly milky, and varying greatly in its aspect according to soil and situa- 

 tion. Root taperinff, with numerous long, stout, pale fibres, according to Smith 

 slightly creeping. Stems 1 or more, erect, 1—2 feet high (or in moist shady 

 places even twice that height, with far larger leaves), round, solid, simple, striated, 

 greenish or purplish, more or less leafy, rough with scattered, white, toothed hairs 

 intermixed with fewer very short, blackish, almost aculeate ones, both most copious 

 near the base. Leaves alternate, extremely inconstant in size, shape, number and 

 degree of toothing, ovato-lanceolate, firm, pale green on the upper side, often 



