Locamtif.s.— I n woods, thickets, ami on heaths, on a dry, sandy, or gravelly 
soil. Not very uncommon. — Oxfordshire ; Shotover Hill: W. B. — Berksh. 
Bagley Wood : W. B. — Bedfordsh. About Aspley: Ilev. C. Abbot. — Cam- 
bridgesh. Gamlingay Park, and White Wood: Rev. It. Rf.lhan. — Devon. 
About Tiverton ; l)artmoor Castle ; Holme Chase ; Dean Burn near Ashbur- 
ton ; Buckland and Spitchwick Woods; Beekey Fall; Woods at Ilsington; 
Fringle Bridge near Drewsteignton ; and in Bridford Woods: FI. Devon. — 
Durham ; Near South Shtehls Law, and on the banks forming the coast at 
Rocoe-gill near Monkwearmouth : N. .1. Winch, Esq. It) Schull Wood : Mr. 
J. Backhouse. — Kent ; About Charlton : Mr. W. Curtis. In Ospringe Chalk 
Pits, and by the way-sides at Dunkirk: E. Jacob.— M iddlesex ; About Barnet, 
and Hampstead: Mr. W. Cijkiis. — Norfolk; Woody hills at the back of 
Thorpe near Norwich • Engl. Bot. Near Ditchingham : Mr. WoonwAnu. — 
Northumberland ; Near Henshaw and Bavington : Miss Emma Trevelyan, 
in Winch's FI. of Northumberland and Durham. — Shropsh. At Ilord's 
Park : T. Pcrton, Esq. in Midi. FI . — Warvicksh. On the walls of Warwick 
Castle: T. Puhton, Esq. Colcshill Heath : Rev. W.T. Brf.f. — O n theCastla 
garden wall, Vineyard Lane, at the back of the green-house, Warwick : Mr. 
W. G. Pi nny. Ditch -banks near Birmingham : Dr. Withfuino. Abundant 
about Rugby, especially a little beyond the Workhouse on the lower street load 
to Hillmorton. On the Barhy road near Mr. Ladbrook's Farm. Road-side 
near Hillmorton House. On the side of the upper street 'oad between Rugby 
and Hillmorton, after the turn to the (landing-post. On Jnrrnlt’s Heath, and 
all along the Dunchuich mad from thence to the Cock and Robin Public House. 
On the bank by the Meer Dyke in the Bridle-road on the left hand side going 
up Dunchurch Hill: June, 1831, W. B. — WALES. Anglesey; Not uncom- 
mon on the South-east side of the county : Rev. H. Daviis. — SCOTLAND. 
Beru-icksh. Haiden Dean, on the site of an old Roman station: ])r. Johnston. 
— About King’s Scat at Dunkeld, ike . : Rev. J. Liomtfoot. — IRELAND. 
Devil’s Glen, county of Wicklow: Mr. J. T. Mackay. 
Perennial. — Flowers from July to October. 
Root fibrous, fibres many, long, simple, thread-shaped, dark 
brown on the outside, white within. Stem from 1 to 3 feet high 
or more, upright, leafy, round, unbranched, almost solid, scored ; 
either slightly hairy, or quite smooth. Leaves numerous, scattered, 
sessile, strap-spear-shaped, distantly toothed, bright green on the 
tipper surface, paler on the under ; their margins and ribs slightly 
hairy. Flowers bright yellow, about an inch in diameter, on 
branched, somewhat cottony flower-stalks, which terminate the 
stem in a corymbose form, or more generally in a kind of imper- 
fect umbel. Bracleas awl-shaped, few and small. Involucrum 
( calyx of Linn.y dark green, almost smooth, except at the very 
base ; its scales strap-spear-shaped, a little spreading or recurved 
at their tips. Seeds (fig. 4.) angular, brown, and finely dotted. 
Pappus (figs. 4 & 5.) rough (see fig. 6.), as long as the involucrum. 
Receptacle (fig. 7.) slightly cellular, and rough with small, awl- 
shaped, chaffy scales. 
This species is subject to much variation in size, shape, smoothness, &c. of 
the leaves ; and in the disposition of the flowers. There is a variety sometimes 
met with wild, with very narrow, quite entire, strap-shaped leaves ; and a sim- 
ple, 1 -flowered stem ; this is var. y. of Sir J. K. Smh h’s Engl. Flora ; and the 
Hieracium Pulmonaria Graminba of Du r.rvius.in Ray’s Synopsis, p. 168 ; 
find I’khver’s Herbarii Britannici, t. 13. f. 12. Dili.enius mentions it as 
having been found about London ; and Mr. Woodward informs us, in Wither- 
ino’s Arrangement of British Plants, that it is fiequent near Bungay, in 
Suffolk. — An English specimen of this very marked variety, collected, probably, 
either by Shkrard, or by Dillenius, is preserved in the Sherardian Herba- 
rium, in the Oxford Garden. 
Hieracium umbellatum is said to be used in Sweden to dye yarn of a fine 
yellow colour. It is one of the most decidedly marked of any individual in this 
very difficult and extensive fjenus ; of which Mr. Loudon, in his Hortus Britan- 
nicus, enumerates 123 species, most of them natives of different parts of Europe. 
