SYNGENESIA. .EQUALIS. Hieracium. 891 
HIERA'CIUM.^ Receptacle generally naked: Calyx tiled, 
egg-shaped, sometimes double : Down mostly sessile, 
hair-like, rarely plumose. 
( Ohs . This genus has been found so intricate, that the means of discrim-, 
mating the intermingling varieties have scarcely yet been discovered. 
We have ventured to admit several species, which, from the authority 
on which they rest, may be considered well ascertained; but, notwith¬ 
standing the labours of Smith in Linn. Tr. and other works, we are still 
unable altogether to rectify the confusion of synonyms which in some 
of the older species has long prevailed. E.) 
(1) Stalk leafless , single-flowered; Down simple. 
H. pilosel'la. Leaves very entire, egg-shaped, cottony beneath: 
suckers creeping. 
Curt. 279 —{E. Bot. 1093—Ft. Dan. 1110. E.)— Ludio. 1 U—Walc 
Blackw. 3 65 — Fuchs. 605— Trag. 278— Lonic. i. 95. 3— J. B. ii. 1039—■ 
Park. 690. 2— H. Ox. vii. 8. 3—Pet. 11. 1 —Dod. 67—Lob. 254. 1, and Ic. 
i. 479. 1—Ger. Em. 638. 2— Park. 690. 1— H. Ox. vii. 8, row 1,/. 1— 
Ger. 513. 2. 
Suckers covered with down, and hairy, lying close to the ground, not throw¬ 
ing out flowering stems in the autumn, as do H. duhium and auricula. 
Florets pale yellow, with a broad purple stripe on the under side. 
Woodvv. Calyx, hairs terminated in black globules. {Seeds brown, 
striated. E.) 
Creeping Mouse-ear. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. (Irish: Clovas Halt. 
Welsh: Heboglys torllwyd. E.) Dry meadows, pastures, and walks. 
F. May—Sept.f 
* (From Upu.%, a hawk ; because that bird, according to Pliny, was wont to quicken his 
sight with its juice; or rather, perhaps, from the mixture of black and yellow in some 
species resembling the colour of a hawk’s eye; and whence, possibly, the above inference. E.) 
•f This differs from other lactescent plants, being less bitter, and more astringent (It 
was formerly kept in the shops as an astringent, and designated Auricula muris , from the 
resemblance of the hairy termination of its leaves to a mouse’s ear. E.) It is esteemed 
hurtful to sheep. An insect of the Cochineal genus (Coccus polonicus ) is often found at 
the roots. Act. Ups. 1752. Goats eat it. Sheep are not fond of it. Horses and cows 
refuse it. (The different species contributing to the Horologium Florae , or Botanical 
Clock, (Vid. Anagallis ), (as originally described by Linnaeus, and since exhibited in the 
Jardin des Plantes at Paris), we cannot refrain from transcribing the appropriate lines 
of Charlotte Smith. 
“ In every copse and shelter’d dell. 
Unveil’d to the observant eye, 
Are faithful monitors, who tell 
How pass the hours and seasons by. 
The green-robed children of the Spring 
Will mark the periods as they pass, 
Mingle with leaves Time’s feathered wing. 
And bind with flowers his silent glass. 
Mark where transparent waters glide. 
Soft flowing o’er their tranquil bed ; 
There, cradled on the dimpling tide, 
Nymphcea rests her lovely head. 
