1GG ENGLISH BOTANY. 
furnished on both sides and on the petioles with long rather stiff 
hairs. Scape erect, 2 to 15 inches high, leafless, but sometimes 
with 1 to 3 small hairy bracts, more or less clothed with stellate 
down (especially towards the top) and short black gland-tipped 
hairs frequently intermingled with long black-based simple hairs. 
Pericline about \ inch long; phyllaries clothed with stellate down, 
black gland-tipped hairs, and elongate simple black-based hairs in 
variable proportions. Florets pale-yellow, the exterior ones red or 
purple on the back. Achenes ^V mcu l° n o> cylindrical-striate, nearly 
black. Pappus dirty-white, brittle. 
Var. is usually a more hairy plant, and the leaves are often 
narrow, but the only tangible difference is the short stolons, which 
do not root until after flowering, and have the leaves sometimes so 
close together that they may almost be said to be in a rosette. 
Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 
French, Fperviere Filoselle. German, Gemeines IfabicMskraut. 
This plant differs from all other milky-juiced plants, being less bitter and more 
astringent. Its common English name is derived from the notion that the hairy ter- 
mination of its leaves resembles a mouse's ear. Its pale lemon-coloured blossoms have, 
in favourable seasons, the smell of raspberry jam. In Gloucestershire, and probably 
elsewhere in the South, a beautiful little gold and green bci tie haunts this flower, 
loving to 
" Sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day," 
and at certain angles of view is scarcely distinguishable, by reason of its lustre. 
We find in Culpepper's Herbal that this plant, if " outwardly applied, is singular 
good for all the defects and diseases of the eyes, used with some women's milk," and 
that " the distilled water cleanseth the skin, and taketh away freckles, spots, morphew, 
or wrinkles in the face." 
SPECIES II— HIERACIUM AURANTI ACUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCCXXIII. 
Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 413. 
Reush. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCLXXIV. Fig. 2. 
Back. M(.n. Hier. p. 15. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 200. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 
ed, -wii. p. 187. Fries, Epic. p. 24. 
Stolons short, often absent. Leaves oblanccolate or clliptical- 
ol (lanceolate, entire, sub-acute, with long hairs on both sides, nearly 
or quite destitute of stellate down beneath. Scapes leafy below ; 
leaves sessile, narrowed at the base. Antliodcs few, corymbose. 
Pericline ovate-ovoid. Phyllaries obtuse. Styles brown. 
In pastures and woods. Not native, but naturalized in many 
places iu [Scotland and the North of England. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer. 
