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peduncles more or less clothed with long 

 rusty hairs ; the outer bracts few and 

 small, as in the wall H. 



A high alpine or Arctic species, spread 

 over the mountains of northern and 

 Arctic Europe and Asia, and the higher 

 ranges of central and southern Europe. 

 Not uncommon in the Highlands of 

 Scotland and in the mountains of North 

 Wales, and found also in some parts of 

 north-western England. Fl. summer. 

 In its ordinary state it is easily enough ^^> 

 recognized, but in the Scotch Highlands ^|g 

 varieties sometimes occur with broader 

 leaves, more elongated flower-stems, 

 and less shaggy involucres, almost in- 

 termediate between this and the wall 

 H., which has induced some botanists to 

 believe that the former may be but a j^v 



high alpine variety of the latter. 



^f^v 



595. 



3. Wall Hawkweed. Hieracium murorum, Linn. (Eig. 596.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2082; H. maculatum, t. 2121, H. pulmonariwm, t. 2307, 

 and H. Lapeyrousii, Sup pi. t. 2915.) 



The short perennial stock bears a 

 spreading tuft of rather large, ovate or 

 oblong leaves, always stalked, some- 

 times very obtuse and nearly entire, 

 more frequently pointed and coarsely 

 toothed, especially near the base, some- 

 times tapering into the stalk, sometimes 

 more or less cordate at the base, usually 

 slightly hairy, and often of a pale glau- 

 cous-green underneath. Elower-stems 

 erect, 1 to 2 feet high, rarely quite leaf- 

 less, usually with 1 or 2 leaves near the 

 base like" the radical ones but smaller, 

 and 1 or 2 smaller narrow ones higher 

 up, but occasionally with several leaves. 

 Elower-heads rather large and yellow, 

 usually 3 or 4 only, but sometimes as 

 many as 20 or 30, in a loose terminal 

 corymb. Involucres and peduncles more or less clothed with 



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Fig. 596. 



black, 



