TIIRTNCIA. 



3. A. crocfa. Saffron <oloured Hawk-bit. Willd. 11. 3. 

 (Leontodoii crocun; Hi-nkc in J.icq. Col. v. 2. l6.)— 

 "Stalk radical, folitary. fing'.f-flowcred, (l.irhtly fcaly ; tu- 

 mid ana hairy above. Calyx liifpid. Leaves fmuoth, run - 

 cinatc, with a triangular termiial lobe."— Gathered by 

 Hai-nke on the alpine heights of Judenberg, in Upper Stiria, 

 where it inhabits dry, open, barren p llurcs, but is elfewhere 

 rarely to be feen. This is faid by Willdenow to be like 

 the preceding, but different in the above-defcribed figure of 

 its leaves, which are only foinetimes hairy. Flower an inch 

 and half, or two inches, in diameter, very handfome, and 

 readily diftinguifhed from all the furrounding fpecies ot 

 its own tribe, by its colour, which is that of tinfture of 

 faffron. 



4. A. hajlilis. Shining Spear-leaved Hawk-bit. Hoft. 

 Syn. 423. Willd. n. 4. Ait. n. I. (Leontodon haftile ; 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 11 23. Jacq. Auftr. t. 164. L. prothei- 

 forme B & C ; Villars Dauph. v. 3. 87. Picris, n. 26 ; 

 Hall. Helvet. v. i. i2.)-.-Stalks radical, fingle-flowered, 

 fmooth as well as the calyx. Leaves obovato-lanceolate, 



fmooth, with numerous (lightly hooked teeth Native of 



the fouth of Europe ; very abundant in Switzerland. The 

 leaves are often a foot long, tapering at the bafe into purplifh, 

 flat, w'mged/iotfialii ; their furface fmooth, even, and fome- 

 what glaucous ; their margin cut into many deep, acute, 

 triangular teeth, partly hooked backward. St,iHs feveral, 

 round, very fmooth, glaucous, very rarely divided, twelve 

 or eighteen inches high. Flower bright yellow, an inch and 

 half wide, with fcarccly any perceptible hairs on the calyx; 

 drooping when in bud. Sometimes t\v: Jlower-Jlalks bear a 

 Jew linear diftant fcales. 



5. A. diibia. Doubtful Hawk-bit. Willd. n. 5 



" Stalk fingle-flowered, radical, nearly naked ; hairy, as 

 well as the calyx, above. Leaves lanceolate, toothed at the 

 bafe, nightly clothed with forked hairs." — Communicated 

 to Willdenow by Hoppe, from the Saltzburg alps, under 

 the above name, which feems to us but too well applied. 

 We have not indeed feen a fpccimen of this plant. Willde- 

 now defcribes it as intermediate between the laft and j4. h'lf- 

 piJa. The Jlalh are molUy furniftied with one fmall fcale, 

 and are tumid under iht: Jlower, whofe ealyx, as well as the 

 upper part of the ftalk, ai-e befet with (hort forked hairs. 

 1 he leaves feem fmootli at firll light, but bear fcattered, 

 white, forked hairs. 



6. A.tubero/a. Knotty-rooted Hawk-bit. Willd. n. 6. 

 Ait. n. 2. Sm. Fl. Gric. Sibth. t. 797, unpubl. (Leon- 

 todon tuberofum ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 23. Dens leonis hul- 

 bofus; Ger. Em. 290. Chondrilla altera Diofcoridis, &c.; 

 Lob. Ic. 232.) — Stalks radical, fingle-flowered, naked, 

 fomewhat hairy. Calyx hairy. Leaves pinnatifid, runci- 

 nate, fomewhat lyrate, rough with forked hairs. Root of 

 many ovate tapering knobs — Native of the fouth of Eu- 

 rope and the Levant ; very common in the fandy meadows 

 of Greece, Cyprus, and Zante. The modern Greeks name 

 it f'zJi'm, or radyh; and it may be, as fome old botanills 

 have thought, the j-.ovjf.xxn Hsp of Diofcorides, but this is 

 hard to determine. The perennial root is a duller of feffile 

 ovate knobs, above an inch long, tapering into radicles. 

 Leaves numerous, fpreading, dark green, obtule, either 

 fimply runcinate, with a large terminal lobe, or deeply, 

 fometimes interruptedly, pinnatifid, and bluntly toothed. 

 Flawer-Jlalks feveral, a fpan high, afcending, ftriatcd, more 

 orlefs hairy ; purple, like ■ChfTfootJlalh , at their bafe. Ca- 

 lyx flender, with acute fcales. Flowers above aii inch wtde, 

 full yellow ; red underneath. 



7. A. incana. Hoary Hawk-bit. Scop. Carn. v. 2. 

 ;i3. Willd. n. 7. Ait. p. 3. (Hieracium incanum; 



Jacq. Auftr. t. 287. Linn. Sp. PI. cd. r. 799. H. fexttira; 

 montanum ; Cluf. Hift. v. 2. 141. Ger. Em. 302. Leon- 

 todon hifpidum ; Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1 1 24.) — Stalks ra- 

 dical, fingle-flowered, almolt. naked, hoary as well as the 

 calyx. Leaves lanceolate, ereiS, very minutely and fparingly 

 toothed, hoary with flarry hairs. — Found on hills and moun- 

 tains in Germany, Switzerland, Carniola and France. The 

 root is long and woody, divided at the crown, where its bears 

 feveral tufts of ftraight, upright, more or lefs acute, very- 

 hoary, leaves, tapering at the bafe, from three to five inches 

 long, with a few little, marginal, glandular teeth. Stalix 

 often folitary in each tuft, a foot high, fwelling at the top. 

 Floiuers light yellow, an inch and a half broad. Calyx- 

 fcales narrow, acute. The uniformly entire leaves, though 

 befet with a few glandular teeth, and the ftrufture of mod 

 other parts, when minutely examined, render this plant fuf- 

 ficiently diftintl from j1. hifpida, hereafter defcribed, with 

 which Linnaeus fubfequently confounded it as a variety. 



8. A. Taraxaci. Dandelion-leaved Hawk-bit. Willd. 

 n. 8. Ait. n. 4. Compend. Fl. Brit. n. 3. (Hedypnoii^ 

 Taraxaci ; Villars Dauph. v. 3. 80. t. 26. Fl. Brit. 82 y. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1 109. Hieracium Taraxaci ; Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1 1 25. Retz. Obf. fafc. 4. 30. t. 2. Lightf. Scot. 435. 

 Picris n. 27 ; Hall. Hift. v. i. 12. P. Taraxaci; AUion, 

 Ped. v. I. 211. t. 31. f. I.) — Stalks radical, moftly fingle- 

 flowered ; tumid and hairy at the top. Leaves fmooth, with 

 recurved teeth. Calyx hairy. — Native of watery paftures 

 on the loftieft mountains of Lapland, Scotland, Wales, 

 Switzerland, Savoy, and Dauphiny, flowering in July or 

 Auguft. Root abrupt, with long lateral fimple fibres. Herb 

 very variable in the breadth of its leaves, as well as the num- 

 ber, height and luxuriance of its_/?0'a)^r^a//".f. The former 

 are either lanceolate, and almoll linear, or fpatulate and 

 obovate, fharp or blunt, from two to four inches long, with 

 Ihallow or very deep, always runcinate, teeth. The latter 

 are afcending or ereft, folitary or in pairs, fometimes, though 

 rarely, divided, naked or furnifhed with a few linear fcales, 

 fliaggy v,'ith black hairs at the top, as is likewife the broad 

 and thick calyx. Flowers an inch broad, or more, of a full 

 yellow, with brownifli terminal feet. Germen furmounted 

 with a taper neck, like a ftalk, but as the feed fwells, this 

 appearance vanilhes, and the feathery down is truly feflile. 

 Receptacle naked. Willdenow jullly remarks, that Gouan's 

 fynonym is mifapplied to this fpecies in the Fl. Brit. We 

 have now quoted it more corrcdlly under our fecond A. alpina, 

 to which fome of the flender varieties of the prefent bear a 

 great refemblance. Solander, as well as Linnxus, thought 

 this plant a mule between Hieracium alpinum and Leontodon 

 Taraxacum, merely becaufe its jlowers refembled one, and 

 its leaves the other. The generic charafter differs from 

 botli. 



9. A. autumnalis. Autumnal Hawk-bit. Hoffm. Germ, 

 for 1791. 274. Willd. n. 9. Ait. n. 5. Compend. Fl. 

 Brit. n. 4. (Hedypnois autumnalis; Fl. Brit. n. 4. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 830. Leontodon autumnale ; Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1 123. Hieracium minus; Fuchs Hift. 320. H. minus, 

 five leporinum ; Ger. Em. 296.) — Stalks radical, branched ; 

 their ultimate divifions fcaly. Leaves lanceolate, toothed, 

 or pinnatifid, fmoothifti, — Native of meadows and paftures 

 tliroughyut Europe, flowering in autumn ; very common 

 in Britain. The root is abrupt, with very long and co- 

 pious fibres. Leaves numerous, varioufly and unequally 

 pinnatifid, or merely toothed, rarely a little rough or fliaggy, 

 oblique, or fomewhat ferpentine, in their general form or 

 pofition. General Jlalks one or more, a foot or two m height, 

 Ipreading, curved and zigzag, alternately branched, not 

 quite without pubefcence, terminating in a few long 'fcaly 



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