COMPOSITE. 1G5 
SPECLES I— HIERACIUM PILOSELLA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCXXII. 
t, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsico. Nob. 1261, 1262, 
Ketch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLVIII. 
Back Mod. Ilier. p. 13. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 199. Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p. 1*17. Fries, Epic. p. 10. 
Stolons elongate, with the leaves scattered, rarely short, and 
suh-rosulate. Leaves ohlaneeolate or obovate - oblanceolate, or 
strapshaped-oblanceolate, entire, rather obtuse, with long hairs 
on both sides, felted with stellate down beneath. Scapes 
leafless. Anthode solitary. Pericline ovate -ovoid, at length 
ovate-conical. Inner phyllaries acute. Styles yellow. 
Var. a, gemiinum. 
Stolons elongated, with distant leaves. 
Var. 3, pilosiss'mium. Fries. 
11. lMeterianum, Herat, Fl. Par. p. 305. 
Stolons short and thick, with the leaves often sub-rosulatc. 
Radical leaves often narrower than in var. a. 
On dry banks and pastures, wall-tops, &c. Very common, 
and generally distributed. Var. rare. Freshwater Gate, Isle of 
Wight (Mr. Ilambrough) ; also on Craig Breidden, Montgomery- 
shire (Mr. Backhouse), and in Dovedale, Derbyshire (Mr. Borrer!). 
Abundant in Jersey, especially in St. Brelade's Bay. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer 
to Autumn. 
Ptootstock branched, emitting numerous prostrate stolons, 
which creep above ground, or more rarely are ascending at the 
apex. Leaves at the base of the scape in a rosette 1 to 5 inches 
long, somewhat obtuse, narrowed at the base, but not distinctly 
stalked, felted and generally white with stellate down beneath, and 
Fries, in his " Epicrisis Veneris TTieraciorum," usually quotes Mr. Backhouse's species 
with a mark of admiration, to indicate that he has seen specimens, and as he generally 
agrees very closely -with the English authority, I have made an exception in his case. 
Without the aid of specimens, I do not dare to refer to the views of Messrs Greuier, 
Griesbach, C. H. Schultz, and Jordan, because in this genus descripthms alone are 
insufficient to point out the limits of the species as intended by these authors. 
