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weed in the eastern states, but native of the Old World. Flowering from 

 June to September. 



King Devil 



Ilieracium florcntinum Allioni 



Plate 223a 



Stems slender, smooth or somewhat hispid, i to 3 feet high from a 

 perennial root. Leaves all basal, oblong or spatulate, entire, either pointed 

 or blunt at the apex and narrowed at the base into margined petioles, 

 somewhat hirsute with stiff hairs, or smooth, 2 to 4 inches long, one-fourth 

 to three-fourths of an inch wide. Sometimes one to three smaller leaves 

 are borne on the stem near its base. Inflorescence of several bright-yellow 

 heads of flowers, each head one-third to one-half of an inch broad, arranged 

 in a corymb on short, somewhat glandular-hairy peduncles. The involucre 

 about one-fourth of an inch high, composed of linear, pointed bracts, pilose 

 and somewhat glandular-hairy, overlapping in about two series. 



In fields, meadows and thickets and along roadsides, New York and 

 Ontario to Quebec and Maine. Native of Europe. In some places an 

 obnoxious weed. Unlike the Orange Hawkweed, it does not spread by 

 leafy stolons, and hence is usually not so abundant. 



Rough Hawkweed 

 Hieracium scabrum Michaux 



Plate 224 



Stems stout and leafy up to the inflorescence, without a basal tuft of 

 leaves at flowering time, 1 to 4 feet high, very hairy with rather reddish 

 hairs and glandular-hairy above. Leaves hairy, oblong or broadly spatu- 

 late, 2 to 4 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, blunt at the apex, the lower 

 leaves narrowed into margined petioles, the upper narrowed to a sessile 

 base, their margins sparingly denticulate. Inflorescence of numerous 

 yellow heads, one-half to three-fourths of an inch broad, on reddish colored, 

 stout, densely glandular-hairy peduncles. Involucres one-third to one-half 



