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When this grows in a lefs (haded fituation, the 
leaves are few, and deeper cut ; and there are 
fometimes more flowers than one; and, where 
much expofed to cold, the leaves will be crumpled, 
DIVISION II, F 0 
Red-fiowered Hawkweed. 
Hieracmn flore ruhcnte. 
The root is long, and hung with many fibres. 
The leaves rifing from it are numerous, broad, 
hairy, and of a dark green. 
The (lalk is a foot high, round, and very 
hairy : at the top grow numerous footftalks, fup- 
porting the flowers. 
Thcle are moderately large, and of a deep 
orange fcarlet. 
andfmaller. In both thefe Urates we find it in 
our northern counties-, and it has been defcribed 
as fo many diftinft fpecies, in thefe appearances. 
REIGN SPECIES. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Au- 
gufl:. 
C. Bauhirie calls it Hieracium hortCTife ftorihus 
atro purpiirafcmtibui. Our people. Grim the col- 
lier. 
All the hawkweeds are of the iam.e general 
qualities, cooling and deobftruent ; but their vir- 
tues are not fufficient to bring them into efteem 
or praftice. 
G E N U S IV. 
MOUSE-EAR. 
PILOSELLA. 
THE flower is compofcd of numerous flofcules, contained in a rounded cup. formed of num^- 
rous tender, oblon-, and narrow fcales. 1 he flofcules are feparately flat ; and dented m five 
parts at tlie ends. The leaves are hairy , and th^re ftands only one head or general flower on the top 
of each ftalk. 
Common Creeping Moufe-Ear, 
Piiofella vulgaris rcpens. 
The root is a tuft of whitifh fibres. 
The leaves rife in a little clufter from this ; 
and they are oblong, narrow, of a deep greeri, 
and very hairy : there rife with thefe fomc long, 
■weak, trailing fhoots, which take root at the 
. ends ; and thefe fending up other clufters of 
leaves, propagate the plant abundantly. 
The ftalk is flender, of a pale green, hairy, and 
four inches high. 
One flower ftands on its top ; and this is large, 
and of a very beautiful pale yellow. 
It is common on dry banks, flowering in 
May. 
C. Baiihine calls it Piiofella major repens hir- 
fiita. Others only, Piiofella. 
It is an excellent altringent and may be gi- 
ven in powder of the whole plant againft hemor- 
rhages, and overflowings of the menfes. 
A ftrong decoction of it is good againft loofs- 
neflTcs attended with bloody ftools. 
GENUS V. 
DANDELION. 
DENS L E O N I S. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in a common cup, compofed of many 
fcales, the inner ones of which are long, narrow, and ftrait and the outer, fewer, broader, 
and naturally turned backwards at the end. Each flofcule is narrow, and dented in Hve places at the 
end ; and one flower ftands on each ftalk ; which is alfo naked, or without leaves. 
LinnEEus places this among the fyngenejia with the others. 
I. Common Dandelion, 
Dens leonh vulgaris. 
This is almoft too common for defcriptlon. 
The root is long, and has many fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, long, broad, of 3> 
fine green, deeply indented, and full of a milky 
juice. 
The ftalks are numerous, hollow, naked, and 
ten inches high. 
One flower ftands on the top of each ; and 
this is large and yellow. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers -all 
ftimmer. 
N-^ XUV. 
C. Bauhine calls it Dens Isonis latlcre folio. 
Others, Taraxacon. 
Beneficent Nature has in general made thofe 
things moft common which are moft ufeful ; 
and this plant is an inftance. It is excellent 
againft obll:ruflions of the vifcera, and in the 
fcurvy: It is alfo of great ufe in the gravel, 
operating powerfully, yet fafely, by urine. The 
beft method of taking it in a fit of the gravel, is in 
ftrong decoflion : for the other cafes the lower 
part of the ftalks, blanched, are beft eaten in the 
way of fallad. 
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