288 COMPOSITE. [Hieracium. 



tinged with purple on the under, and in si)me varieties spotted and clouded with 

 that colour above: the very lowest leaf or two in my specimens are angulato-den- 

 tate, very rough on the upper side with short, erect, tubercular hairs, and on 

 sheathing petioles, those immediately succeedini; more distinctly toothed, the rest 

 or upper and middle stem-leaves strongly and sharply toothed, chiefly in their 

 lower part, narrow-lanceolate, acute, wai ed, folded and nearly glabrous above, 

 hairy beneath, their mai'gins and tips of the teeth dark-coloured : the form, size and 

 direction of the teeth are extremely variable, being sometimes remote, at other limes 

 approximate, mostly pointing forwards, a few only directed horizontally. Flowers 

 large, bright almost golden yellow, 2, 3, or more together, terminating the long, 

 erect, somewhat ansjular branches of the corymbose panicle, which, like the pedun- 

 cles, are somewhat hoary witli appressed starry pubescence. Bracts solitary at the 

 forks of the branches, small, linear and pointed, the lowermost leafy and toothed. 

 Involucral scales blackish green, erect, the innermost long linear pales ; those 

 exterior to them shorter, broader and darker, the outermost of all a little diverg- 

 ing from the erect position of the rest, and beneath these latter, on the enlarged 

 summit of the peduncle, are a few scattered scales, like the others, but swollen or 

 gibbous at the base ; all alike beset with short, black, gland-tipped hairs and 

 stellate pubescence intermixed. Rai/s of the florets deeply 5-toothed, very hairy 

 at the back towards the base. St!/le and sligmas rough. Receptacle plane, foveas 

 numerous, with sharp jagged borders. 



3. H. murorum, L. Wall Hawkweed. " Stem with about 1 

 leaf corymbose or forked, radical leaves numerous persistent 

 stalked usually rounded or cordate at the base and there with 

 radiating or reflexed teeth somewhat hairy, cauline ones sessile or 

 stalked, peduncles and the involucres with white stellate down 

 and usually black hairs or setse, ' inner scales of the involucre 

 cuspidate in bud straight and much longer than the florets,' ligules 

 glabrous at the apex." — Br. Fl. p. 212. E. B. t. 2082. 



Fl. June — August. 1^.. 



I found, July, 1837, in a wood near Yarmouth, a specimen or two of a plant 

 which appeared to me identical with H. molle of Host. Fl. Aust. 



Root woody, brownish, knotty and creeping horizontally to the distance of a few 

 inches, emitting many long pale fibres, simple or slightly branched. Stem 1 or 2 

 from the same root, from 12 or 18 inches to 3 feet high, slender, round, wavy, sim- 

 ple or very slightly branched, more or less rough with black gland-tipped setae 

 intermixed with stellate pubescence, particulai-ly in the upper part, the base being 

 nearly glabrous and having only a few, long, white, silky hairs scattered over it; 

 leafless or most commonly with a sohtary leaf (seldom more) at some indetermi- 

 nate point of its length. Leaves mostly radical, few, persistent during inflores- 

 cence, soft and thin, pale green above, paler still beneath and often clouded with 

 purple in my specimens, clothed on both sides, but thickest on the under side, with 

 long, erect, woolly hairs, as are the nearly cylindrical deeply channelled petioles; 

 various and unequal in shape and size, mostly ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded or 

 subcordate at base, acute, obtuse or rounded and mostly entire at the point, une- 

 qually repandentate, the teeth more or less distinct, the lowermost often pointing 

 backwards; stem-leaves, when present, like the radical ones, but on a shorter foot- 

 stalk, usually more deeply toothed, more pointed or even acuminate. Heads of 

 flowers few, forming an irregular corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts lanceo- 

 late, very acute, thickly besetexternally with black gland-tipped spreading setae inter- 

 mixed with long white hairs and stellate pubescence, as are likewise the very 

 unequal straight or ascending peduncles, and the small lanceolate bracts that 

 often subtend the latter or are found at various parts of their length. Florets 

 numerous, bright yellow ; ray broad, truncate, deeply and acutely 5-toothed, the 

 teeth not thickened at the back ; lube hairy at top. Styles very long, slender and 

 filiform throughout, their long summits [stigmas) at length strongly revolute. 



