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HIE. BACIUM. 
oblong, with a white feffile egret. A leaf is ffiown on 
the Botany Plate V. fig. 69. 
28. Hieracium molle^or foft-leaved hawkweed*. leaves 
lanceolate, almoft entire, foft, the lower ones petroled ; 
flowers on peduncles, forming a kind of corymb. Root 
perennial, blackifti, bitten, and furniflted with long white 
round fibres: it produces, annually, a Ample, upright, 
ftriated, purplilh, fomewhat hairy, leafy ftem, of about 
a foot or two in height; the top of which is divided into 
a few fingle-flowered or two-flowered footftalks, ofabout 
an inch and a half long, and a little hairy. The leaves 
are oval, obtufe, quite entire, villofe on both fides, and 
foft. Seeds floated, rufefcent, crowned with a feffile 
down, which appears toothed when magnified. It grows 
about the borders of the fubalpine woods, flowering in 
July, and producing feeds in Auguft; but, when culti¬ 
vated in a garden, it flowers about the end of May and 
beginning of June, and grows more branchy from the 
boforns of tire leaves; but in other refpects does not 
change its habit. Native of Auftria ; difcovered alfo in 
Scotland, in the year 1780, by Mr. Dickfon. 
29. Hieracium ftipitatum, or fiiped hawkweed; ftem 
branched, with only a leaf or two ; leaves toothed; down 
fiiped. This plant grows afoot high, or higher, on hilly 
meadows, flowering in June, and feeding in July. From 
a perennial, bitten, oblique, round root, of about the 
length of an inch and a half, and the thicknefsof a quill, 
of a palifli brown colour, and increafed by fmall fibres, 
it produces annually a folitary, round, fomewhat ftriated, 
fiftulous Hem, fmooth below, and above rather hifpid, 
with fcattered dark hairs; it is either furniftred with one 
leaf, or elfe is quite aphyllous, and divided into two, 
three, or four, fingle-flowered footftalks, which are up¬ 
right, and have each a fmall leaf or ftipule beneath. It 
recedes from Hieracium in the footftalk of the down; fo 
that it might feem to conftitute a Angular genus. Na¬ 
tive of Auftria. 
30. Hieracium villofum, or villofe hawkweed : ftem 
branched ; leaves hirfute ; root-leaves lanceolate-ovate, 
toothed; ftem-leaves clafping, heart-fliaped. Thisfpe- 
cies varies, fays Jacquin, fo much in different foils, that 
it is difficult to give fuch a defcription as will agree with 
every individual. Root knobbed, unequal, blackifh, 
perennial, with round whitifh fibres.' Stem upright, 
round, hairy, about half a foot in height, greeniffi afli- 
colour, often dotted with brown; it has few leaves on 
it, and is commonly quite.fimple, terminated only by a 
Angle flower, with fometimes, but very feldom, another 
peduncle or two from the upper axils. The flower is 
large, handfome, and yellow ; calyx loofe, with black 
dots, and much white wool. Seeds ftiort, with a feffile 
Ample egret, appearing toothed with a magnifier. The 
hairs on this plant are almoft all very white, long, and 
feathery; there are fome, however, fliorter, and termi¬ 
nated by a gland. Native of Dauphine, Swifferland, 
Auftria, Bohemia', Silefia, in mountain-paftures. Found 
alfo on moift rocks on Ben-Nevis mountain, in Scotland, 
by Mr. James Dickfon, in 17S9.—There is a variety, 
which riles eighteen inches high. 
31. Hieracium glutinofum, or clammy hawkweed: 
leaves lanceolate, runcinate, fomewhat fcabrous; flow¬ 
ers in umbels. This has the habit of Crepis teCtorum, 
vol.v. p. 349« 
32. Hieracium Kalmii, or Kalm’s hawkweed: ftem 
upright, many-flowered; leaves lanceolate, toothed; 
peduncles tomentofe. Stem erect, narrower than in H. 
fabaudum, even. Flowers fmall, terminating, upright. 
Found by Kalm in Pennfylvania. 
33. Hieracium undulatum, or wave-leaved hawkweed: 
ftem branched; leaves elliptic, toothed, waved, hairy; 
hairs plumofe. Native of Spain ; introduced in 1778, by 
Melfrs. Kennedy and Lee. 
34. Hieracium fprengerianum, or branched hawkweed: 
ftem branched; leaves half-ftem-clafping, oblong, re¬ 
pand, hifpid. Native of Portugal; introduced in 1783, 
by Mr. John Grasfer. This, having a plumofe ftipitated 
egret or crown to the feed, cannot belong to this genus,, 
and hence Gasrtner has made it a fpecies of Helmintia. 
35. Hieracium fpicatum, or hairy hawkweed : Item 
many-flowered ; leaves ftem-clafping, hairy, thinly tooth¬ 
ed. Stem firm, hirfute, three feet high, naked at the 
top, many-flowered; peduncles branching, bearded with 
a black pile; calyx alfo black, with hard hairs. The 
fmallnefs and great number of flowers in this plant, 
joined to their conical form, and the difpofition of the 
branches, which fubdivide andjiivaricate at right angles, 
diftinguifh this plant from all the known hieraciums. 
Native of Swifferland, Dauphine, and Piedmont; found 
by Mr. James Dickfon, in woods in the fouth part of 
Scotland, in 1789. 
36. Hieracium fabaudum, or fllrubby hawkweed : ftem 
upright, many-flowered ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, tooth¬ 
ed, half-ftem-clafping. Stem upright, cylindrical, from 
two to three feet high or more, moftly hairy towards the 
bafe, fmootli towards the top, ftriated, green, with red 
dots; branched, fometimes from half or two-thirds of 
the way up; the uppermoft branches often fpringing 
from one point, in manner of an umbel ; thofe below 
alternate. The flowers open at feven in the morning, 
and clofe between one and two in the afternoon, in July, 
Auguft, and September. It varies with leaves covered 
with a ftiort and juft perceptible down, fo as to have the 
appearance of being fmooth; with one flower only on a 
ftem; and with broad-lanceolate leaves on very ftiort 
footftalks. Native of moll parts of Europe, in woods 
and hedges : in Britain not very common. It flowers 
from July to September. 
37. Hieracium unibellatum, or umbelled or buftiy 
hawkweed : leaves linear, fomewhat toothed, fcattered; 
flowers in a kind of umbel. Stem from two to four feet 
high, upright, Ample, round, ftriated, hollow, nearly 
fmooth, green, frequently dotted with red ; alternately, 
efpecially towards the top, dividing into branches. 
Flowers large, yellow, containing as far as ninety-feven 
florets. Seeds cylindrical, fmooth, grooved, blackiib, 
crowned with a feffile yellowifh down, having Ample 
rays, as long as the calyx. This fpecies is often con¬ 
founded with the preceding, by intermediate individuals 
that partake the characters of both, and perhaps they 
are more diftinguifliable by the eye than by the fpecific 
differences. In general this lias narrower leaves, though 
they are not always linear, but fometimes lanceolate, or 
. eveii ovate; and the flowers grow in an umbel, or fprfng 
from one common centre, though the.ftem often becomes 
branched half-way up, producing fcattered flowers all 
tire way; the outer calycine feales are more feparated 
than the inner ones, or fquarrofe, as Linnaeus calls them; 
but this is not a conftant character, any more than the 
colour of the feeds; fo that there does not feem to be 
any certain mark of reparation between them. Mr. Curtis 
parts of Europe in dry paftures. In Britain not very 
common. Near London, on fandy or gravelly heaths, 
about Hampftead, Barnet, and Charlton; near Hilder- 
fliam and Gainlingay, in Cambridgefliire, &c. It flow¬ 
ers in July, Auguft, and September. It is a ftrong- 
fmelling plant, and in Scania is ufed as a dye, commu¬ 
nicating to wool an elegant and beautiful colour. This 
plant varies much in lize, fhape, fmoothnefs, See. of the 
leaves, and in the difpofition of tlie flowers. I11 the 
fmaller fpecimens the leaves are lefs toothed, and fre¬ 
quently quite entire, with theftalk fometimes fimpleand 
one-flowered; in the larger fpecimens the ftalk is much 
branched, and the leaves are more toothed or even 
jagged; it rarely has the umbellate appearance in per¬ 
fection. 
IV. Other fpecies from-Villars and Allioni. 38. Hie¬ 
racium 
