Hicracium.] co^tposit.t.. 289 



4. H. boreale, Fries. Northern Hatvkweecl. " Stem erect leafy 

 rough or hairj% branches subcorymbose, leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate toothed, the lower ones tapermg mto a petiole, upper 

 ones subsessile with an ovate rounded or cordate base, involucres 

 blackish, scales appressed, ligules glabrous at the apex, achenes 

 (blackish brown or red) slightly scabrous." — Br. Fl. p. 216. H. 

 inuloides, Bab. ? H. Sabaudum, Sm. Engl. Fl. iii. p. 367. E. B. 

 t. 349. H. sylvestre, Tausch. secund Hooker in Br. Fl. 4th ed. 

 p. 295 ; Hook, in Comp. to Bot. Mag. i. p. 307. 



j3. Leaves thick, claik green, very rigid. 



In woods, thickets and on hcdgehanks, but not common. Fl. July— Septem- 

 ber. If.. 



E. Med. — In Firestone copse, Guildford lane, Alverslone lynch. By the road- 

 side from Ryde to Newport, about a quarter of a mile before reaching Staplers 

 healh, but rather sparingly. 



Root of several long, smooth, cylindrical, simple and fleshy fibres, with a tough 

 central chord or medulla, and running horizontally near the surface. Stem erect, 

 1 — 4 feet high, or even more in the stouter var. now described, a little milky, 

 round and simple in the lower, branched, furrowed and angular in its upper part, 

 purplish towards the base, roughish with callous points aud hispid with white, 

 stiffish, partly spreading and partly appressed hairs, mixed here and there with a 

 longer, softer, almost downy shngginess. Leaves very numerous, most so towards 

 the middle of the stem, in j3. stiflf and leathery, in the common form paler and 

 more flexible, in /3. dark green aud nearly glabrous above, paler and rough with 

 short hairs and bristly points on the under side, which in the lower leaves is often 

 tinged with purple. Root-leaves attenuated into very short petioles, gradually 

 contracting in those above, so that the upper stem-leaves and those of the branches 

 are quite sessile hut not at all clasping ; all the leaves more or less ovalo-lan- 

 ceolate, distinctly toothed, the teeth rather small, few, distant, straight or slightly 

 curved, and pointing forward ; the margins of the leaves are inflexed in a iritling 

 degree. Flowers ou branching peduncles, forming a sort of corymbose panicle, 

 an inch or rather more in diameter, of a full lemon, almost golden, yellow. Scales 

 of the involucre blackish green, not pale-edged, erect, hispid with scattered stiff 

 hairs from black tubercular bases, close-pressed, the tips of a few of the lowermost 

 shorter ones alone occasionally diverging from the appressed position. Rays of 

 the florets broad, deeply 5-loothed, and as well as the very short tube hairy on the 

 outer side. Styles very long, and as well as the very long reflexed lobes of the 

 stigma greenish. Achenia linear, a little curved at the apex, dark purple brown, 

 almost black, with 5 or sometimes 6 prominent rilibed angles, and as many finer 

 intermediate ones that terminate in a point just short of the principal ridges : 

 the faces of the seed appear scarcely wrinkled, but under a high magnifier pre- 

 sent innumerable longitudinal stria; and minute rough points. Pappus brownish 

 white, rough and jointed. 



Our Isle-of- Wight plant is certainly the H. Sabaudum of Smith, whatever the 

 Linnaean species so called may be, and, though rather rare, is common enough in 

 other parts of England, as in Devonshire, Sussex, the New Forest, &c. 



5. H. iiinbellatmn, L. UmbcUed Hawkiveed. " Stem erect 

 simple corymbose or subumbellate at the apex rigid very leafy, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear toothed or entire, lower ones 

 attenuated at the base, upper sessile acute or rounded at the base, 

 peduncles and sometimes the involucres with stellate down not 

 hairy, scales obtuse with recurved points." — Br. Fl. p. 317. E. 

 B. t. 1771. 



(3. Leaves broader, with large and sharp teeth pointing forwards. 



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