Cicnoueu] 8YNGENES1A 447 



small and scarcely colored. Heads of flowers in a loose corymbose panicle, the 

 branches slender, smoothish; involucre smoothish, the inner leaflets about 10, 

 lance-linear, nearly equal, the outer ones much shorter, imbricated. Florets yel- 

 low. Akenes oblong, striate ; pappus scabrous. 

 Had. Woodlands, and clearings: frequent. Ft. May— June. Fr. June— July. 



Obs. The variety with inconspicuous veins is not unfrequent, here.— and is 

 very common in the Pines of New Jersey. A few years since, this plant was an- 

 nounced as a certain remedy, or antidote, for the poison of the Kattle Snake ; 

 but I believe its virtues remain to be authenticated. 



2. H. Gitoxovn, L. Stem simple, more or less leafy, very hairy 

 below; leaves clliptic-obovate, and oblanceolate; panicle few-flowered, 

 rather compact ; pedicels and involucres pubescent, glandular-hispid. 

 Beck? Mot.fi. 166, 



Var. a. nudicaule> Mx. Stem nearly naked above; panicle sub- 

 fastigiate ; pedicels rather slender. 



Var. b. foUosum, Mx. Stem leafy ; panicle oblong ; pedicels thick - 

 ish, divaricate, very hirsute. 



Also ? H. marianum. IVilld. Pers. Ell &c. 



Jho, H. scabrum. Florul. Cestr. p. 84. Mx? Am. 2. p. 86. 



Grokovius' HiEiiACiuar. 



Root perennial. Stem 1 to2or 3 feethigh, mostly simple, scabrous, clothed with 

 1 >ng spreading canescent hairs, especially towards the base. Leaves 1 or 2 to 5 

 or 6 inches long, and half an inch to 2 inches wide, hairy, the lower ones taper- 

 ing to a petiole at base, those on the stem sessile (in var. a. few, lance-oblong—in 

 voj. b. more numerous, broader, obovate, and ovate). Heads of flowers in an 

 oblong terminal panicle {m var. a. smaller, with the branches more erect, corym- 

 bose, slender, and less hispid); involucre glandular-pilose. Florets yellow. Ah- 

 toes oblong, striate-sulcate. 



Hob. Woodlands ; and sterile meadows : frequent. Ft. August. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The var. b. above mentioned, is the H. scabrum^ of my Catalogue,— which 

 Trof. Hooker thinks is not specifically distinct from H. Gronovii. The var. a. 

 however, has more of the habit of H. venosum ; but is much more hairy. Dr 

 Aikin (in Eat. Man. p. [75.) is moreover of opinion that the H. venosum is only 

 a var. of H. Gronovii. 



3. H. paniculatum, L. Stem leafy, loosely paniculate, smoothish ; 

 leaves lanceolate, denticulate, smooth, membranaceous ; pedicels very 

 slender, divaricate; bracts subulate. Beck, Sot. p. 166. 

 Paniculate Hieracium. 



Root perennial. Stem 2 to 3 or 4 feet high, slender, striate, smoothish, loosely 

 and paniculately branched at summit. Leaves 1 to 3 or 4 inches long, and half an 

 inch to an inch wide, acute at each end, remotely denticulate, thin and smooth, 

 sessile. Heads* of flowers In a long loose compound panicle, with very slender 

 branches, and minutely bracteate pedicels, involucre smooth, the inner leaflets 

 very narrow, linear. Florets yellow. Akenes oblong, deeply striate-sulcate, or 

 ribbed, reddish brown. 



Hob. Woodlands ; and old meadows : frequent. Fl. August. Fr. September* 



Obs. Six or eight additional species are enumerated in theU. Stales ; and Prof. 

 Hooker describes 14 in British America. 



