201 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
a character by which the species may be readily known in all its 
forms. 
Mr. Backhouse gives a variety (3 filifolium) characterized by 
having the leaves very narrow and with re volute margins, but. 
this I have not seen. 
Narrow-leaved Hawkiceed. 
French, Eperviere en Ombelle. German, Doldiges Eabichtskraut. 
Group B.— SABAUDA. 
Stem leafy, without a basal rosette, paniculato-corymbosely or 
sub-racemoso-corymbosely branched at the apex. Lower stem- 
leaves narrowed at the base ; upper ones broad, sessile, not amplexi- 
caul at the base, all paler (but not glaucous) beneath and with the 
network formed by the ultimate veins inconspicuous. Phyllaries 
numerous, imbricated in several rows, concolorous, dark-olive, 
sparingly hairy, nearly or wholly destitute of gland-tipped hairs, 
none of them squarrose at the points. Achenes chestnut-black 
when ripe. 
SPECIES XXXI.— H IERACIUM BOREAL E. Fries. 
Plate DCCCLIV. 
Ri !rh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX Tab. MDXLT. 
Back. Mod. Ilier. p. 75. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 208. Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. 
ed. viii. p. 232. Fries, Epic. p. 130. 
II. Stbaudum, Sm. Eng. But. No. 319 (non Linn.). 
II. hi terophylluui, Bladon, in Phyt. ser. i. Vol. II. p. 9G1. 
Stem very leafy, paniculato- or racemoso-corymbosely branched 
at the apex, generally woolly in the lower part, sparingly clothed 
with stellate down and simple woolly hairs in the upper part; 
peduncles rather densely clothed with stellate down, sometimes 
intermixed with hairs which arc often black-based but not gland- 
tipped. Leaves very numerous, commonly crowded in the lower 
part of the stem; the lowest ones elliptical- or oval-oblanceolate ; 
middle ones elliptical or oval and attenuated at each end; the 
upper ones ovate or ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, broad or even 
sub-cordate, but not amplcxicaul at the base; all (except the 
lowest) acute, remotely denticulate - serrate or dentate- serrate 
towards the middle, more or less hairy with soft hairs on both sides 
and ("specially on the veins beneath, ciliated with rather long hairs 
on the margins. Anthodes moderately large, numerous, in a 
corymb or short panicle or raceme terminated by the corymb, with 
