Hieraclum Gronovil 
L., var. %exanum var. nov. 
Hieracium Gronovil L ,. var, texanum var. nov. Plant perrennial; root- 
stock short, stout, praemorse, with a cluster of Cibrous roots near the soil surface, 
stems strict, unbranched below the inflorescence, 75-100 cm, high, 3-5 mm, broad, 
terete, villous-setose below the middle, canescent to puberulent or glabrate above, 
leafy to the inflorescence, sometimes into the inflorescence; leaves alternate, 
obovate to spatulate, setose on upper surface, denselj' short-pubescent below and 
scatteringly setose, except on midrib and there densely setose, and especially so 
towards the base; lower 1—3 leaves short petiolate, blades mostly 1-15 cm, long 
and 3,5-5 cm, broad, obtuse at the apex and narrowed below to a winged peticle, 
which usually is 1-1,5 cm, long, remotely and minutely toothed; , upper leaves sessile 
or subsessile and gradually smaller, sometimes extending into lower part of the 
inflorescence, abruptly narrowed or rounded at the base, the uppermost leaves as 
small as 3-4 cm. long and 3-5 mm. broad; inflorescence paniculate; panicle 40-50 cm, 
loug» the branches ascending-spreading, lower branches when present, erect and up 
to 25 cm, long (usually the terminal portion of the panicle is about 25 cm. long 
and 5 cm, broad, and with short branches only); peduncles filiform, canescent, up 
to 3 cm. long, remotely bracted with 1-3 minute, alternate, triangular-lanceolate 
bracts, and sparsely glandular with stalked glands; involucres about 15-flowered, 
8-9 mm. high, 3-4 mm. broad; involucral bracts casescent, in 2 series of main bracts, 
which are about 6,5 mm, long and 1,5 mm, broad, oblong, obtuse, and narrowly scarious- 
margined, and with 1-2 series of outer accessory bracts one-third as long, toich have 
narrow, green, and acute tips; flowers yellow, the corollas exceeding the involucre 
by 1-2 mm.; achenes fusiform, narrowed into a neck, 3 mm. long, .3 mm, broad, 10- 
ribbed, black; pappus brown, equalling or surpassing the involucre, barbellulate, 
about 5 mm. long. 
Type specimen No, 20072 was collected Sept. 15, 1936, in low, damp 
woods at the northern edge of the City of Beaumont, Texas, The variety differs 
essentially from the species in that the stem is leafy nearly to, or in cases, into 
the infloreseence. 
