H. ALPI'NUM. Leaves oblong, entire, toothed: stalk almost naked: calyx shaggy with silky hairs.

(E. Bot. 1110. E.)-Lightf. 18, p. 434—Allion. 14. 2-Col. Ecphr. ii. 30. 1— H. Ox. vii. 7. 5-Pet. 11. 2-Ray 6. 2. at p. 168—(Fl. Dan. 27, may pos◄ sibly be the same plant in a cultivated state.)

Leaves egg-oblong, slightly toothed, sprinkled on both sides with white expanding hairs. Stalk thick, with white hairs, brown at the base. Floral-leaves small, one or two on the upper part of the stalk. Calyx swoln, set with numerous white projecting hairs. Blossom large, deep

But conscious of the earliest beam,
She rises from her humid nest,
And sees reflected on the stream
The virgin whiteness of her breast,

Till the bright day-star to the west
Declines, in Ocean's surge to lave;
Then, folded in her modest vest,

She slumbers on the rocking wave.
See Hieracium's various tribe,

Of plumy seed and radiate flowers,
The course of time their blooms describe,
And wake or sleep appointed hours.
Broad o'er its imbricated cup

The Goatsbeard spreads its golden rays,
But shuts its cautious petals up,
Retreating from the noontide blaze.

Pale as a pensive cloistered nun,

The Bethlem Star her face unveils,
When o'er the mountain peers the sun,
But shades it from the vesper gales.
Among the loose and arid sands

The humble Arenaria creeps;
Slowly the purple star expands,

But soon within its calyx sleeps.
And those small bells so lightly rayed
With young Aurora's rosy hue,
Are to the noontide sun displayed,

But shut their plaits against the dew.
On upland slopes the shepherds mark
The hour, when, as the dial true,
Cichorium to the towering lark

Lifts her soft eyes serenely blue.
And thou, "Wee crimson tipped flower,"
Gatherest thy fringed mantle round
Thy bosom, at the closing hour,

When night-drops bathe the turfy ground.

Unlike Silene, who declines

The garish noontide's blazing light;
But, when the evening crescent shines,
Gives all her sweetness to the night.

Thus in each flower and simple bell,
That in our path betrodden lic,

Are sweet remembrancers who tell

How fast their winged moments fly. E.)

yellow. Linn. Three or four inches high. Whole plant set with long hairs, especially the fruit-stalk and the calyx. Leaves tapering downwards into long leaf-stalks. Fruit-stalks but little longer than the leaves. (Root rather woody. E.)

MOUNTAIN HAWKWEED. Mountains, near the summits in dry soil. Rocks on Glyder and Trigfylchau near Llanberris. Llyn y Cwn, near Snowdon. Pennant. (Rocks on Ben Bourde; on Malghyrdy, Ben Lawers, and Lochain y Gair. Mr. Brown. E.) P. July-Aug. H. TARAX'ACI. Leaves spear-shaped, runcinate, smooth: stalk almost naked, (swollen towards the top: E.) calyx shaggy.

(E. Bot. 1109. E.)—Retz. 4. 2—Allion. 31. 1.

Leaves so much like those of Leontodon autumnale, and the stalk and flowers so exactly resembling those of H. alpinum, that if the stalk and flower of the latter were added to the leaves of the former, a fair specimen of the plant in question would be produced. Stalk (three to six inches high, E.) with the minute rudiments of leaves, hairy, thickening towards the (yellow, E.) flower, swelling at the end, like the calyx, with brown hairs. Linn. (The fructification of Taraxaci, on accurate examination, will be found far too dissimilar to that of T. alpinum, to allow of the conjecture that it might prove a hybrid offspring from the latter. E.) Down sessile, decidedly feathery, (which, rather than "simple," would refer this plant, according to the new arrangement, to the genus Apargia. E.) Lightf. on whose authority it principally rested as a British plant, (till re-discovered by T. Wynne Griffith, Esq. E.)

ALPINE HAWKWEED. Hedypnois Taraxaci. Vill. Fl. Brit. Hieraceum Taraxaci. Linn. Lightf. With. Retz. Dicks. Hull. Apargia Taraxuci. Willd. Sm. Hook. E.) Sides of mountains in wet ground, but not common in Wales, (and the Highlands. E.) Ben-na-Caillich mountain in the Isle of Skye. Lightfoot. (On Rhiwr Glyder about one hundred yards above Llyn y Cwn. Mr. Griffith. E.) P. July-(Aug. E.)

(2) Stalk naked, many-flowered.

H. DUBIUM. Leaves nearly entire, egg-oblong, obtuse, hairy: suckers creeping: (calyx bristly. E.)

(E. Bot. 2332. E.)-Fl. Dan. 1044.

Leaves longer and narrower than in H. pilosella, slightly concave, hairy on both sides, but more sparingly so than in H. pilosella, green above, greyish, but not cottony, underneath. Stalks six to nine inches high, upright, nearly smooth below, with mostly two flowers, rarely one. Pedicles equal, wide apart, as the calyxes clothed with hairs, bearing black globules. Florets pale-yellow on both sides. Seeds oval, scored; down sessile, as long as the calyx. Such were the appearances in June and July, but in autumn as follows:-Suckers throwing out branches, and terminated by a flowering stem. Branches not rooting, with alternate leafy branches. Stem declining at the base, with five and six flowers. Fruit-stalks alternate. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, one at the base of each flower, and similar ones on the fruit-stalks. Cultivated some years in my garden. The roots received from the North of England for H. du◄ bium. It approaches nearest to that species, and is, I apprehend, that plant, though somewhat varied. Woodw.

CREEPING HAWKWEED. (Irish: Clovas Lugh. Smith reverses the syn. and fig. Fl. Dan. as regards this and the following species. E.) Moist mountainous situations. Fairfield mountain near Rydall, Westmoreland. Hudson. (Patterdale. Rev. Mr. Richardson. Coxbench Wood, Derbyshire. Dr. Johnson. Bot. Guide. The genuine plant certainly found in Scotland. Mr. G. Don. E.) P. July-Aug. H. AURICULA. Leaves entire, spear-shaped, acute, hirsute: suckers creeping: (calyx shaggy. È.)

(Fl. Dan. 1111-E. Bot. 2368? E.)

Leaves spear-shaped, rough with small hairs. Stalk and calyx beset with black bristles. Planted in a garden it rose the next year to three feet high, with flowers in a kind of umbel on long fruit-stalks. Linn. Root as if bitten off, with numerous simple fibres. Suckers leafy. Stalk upright, scarcely six inches high, somewhat hairy, hairs scattered. Leaves mostly very entire, pointed, naked. Flowers in a panicle, three to six, yellow. Huds. (A plant little understood. E.)

NARROW-LEAVED HAWKWEED. On mountains. On Dalehead, not far from Grasmere, Westmoreland. Hudson.

(H. AURANTI ACUM.

P. July.

Leaves elliptical, entire: stem almost naked, simple, hairy, bearing a corymbus of many flowers: calyx shaggy.

Jacq. Austr. 410-E. Bot. 1469-Kniph. 11-Col. Eephr. 2, t. 30. Root creeping, and throwing out many scions. Stem a foot high or more, erect, cylindrical, very hairy, scarcely bearing one or two small leaves. Blossom deep-brownish orange colour. Calyx and flower-stalks clothed with long hairs, like those on the leaves or stem. Leaves nearly all radical, elliptical, broad, entire, hairy, especially on the rib. Receptacle naked. Seed-down rough. Stalk and calyx invested with black glandular hairs. E. Bot.

ORANGE HAWKWEED. Not uncommon in gardens; and found truly wild
in several woods in Bamffshire, and at Craigston near Turref, by Mr.
George Don. Coalston woods, East Lothian. Mr. Maughan. Hook.
Scot. At Failsworth, four miles from Manchester. Mr. John Bradbury.
Eng. Fl.
P. July. E.)

H. SABAU'DUM.

(3) Stem leafy; Down sessile.

Stem upright, many-flowered: leaves egg-spearshaped, toothed, semi-amplexicaul, (rough underneath. E.) Allion. 27. 2-(E. Bot. 349. E.)—Fl. Dan. 872-Pet. 13. 7-Gmel. ii. 14. 2-J. B. ii. 1030. 3-H. Ox. vii. 5. 59.

Stem (dying down in winter; E.) sometimes branched from half or twothirds of the way up; the uppermost branches often springing from one point as an umbel; those below alternate. In branches where the top of the stem has been bitten off the leaves often assume the figure of those of H. umbellatum; the fruit-stalks become congregated, as in Gmel. ii. 14. 1, and Fl. Dan. 872. See also var. 4. St. Flowers numerous, yellow, open only a few hours. (Stem stiff and upright, three feet high, cylindrical, furrowed, rough, scarcely hollow, but spongy within, terminating in a branched, many flowered, hairy panicle. Calyx brownish green, hairy, the lower scales loose. Seeds angular, chesnut-coloured, rather rough. Fl. Brit. E.)

SHRUBBY HAWKWEED. (Welsh: Heboglys llydanddail. E.) Woods and
hedges.
P. Aug. (Sept. E.)
Var. 2. Leaves covered with a short and just perceptible down. Ray.
Gmel. ii. 14. 1-Pet. 13. 9.

Moist shady woods. Hudson. Near Ulswater, Westmoreland. Ray.
Var. 3. Leaves longer, with fewer teeth, one flower only on the stem.
Pluk. 37. 3-Pet. 11. 6.

On a dry bank at the edge of a wood in a lane leading from Hornhill to
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Ray.

Var. 4. Leaves broad spear-shaped, on very short leaf-stalks. St.

Pet. 13. 8.

Perry Wood, near Worcester. Stokes.

(H. DENTICULA'TUM. Stem erect, leafy, many-flowered, solid, cymose, with downy glandular stalks: leaves elliptic-lanceolate, finely toothed, smoothish, glaucous beneath.

E. Bot. 2122.

Stem a yard high, roughish, pithy, leafy from top to bottom. Leaves twice the size of the preceding, scarcely at all clasping. Flowers yellow, not an inch broad. Cal. a little viscid. Recept. cellular. Sm. SMALL-TOOTHED HAWKWEEd. H. denticulatum. E. Bot. H. prenan thoides. Fl. Brit. Loch Rannoch, Perthshire; and among bushes on the banks of the Earn. Mr. G. Don. Banks of Clyde at Daldowie. Hopkirk. Hook. Scot. P. July-Aug. E.) H. PRENANTHOIDES. Stem upright, solid: panicle terminal: leaves spear-shaped, embracing the stem, glaucous beneath.

(E. Bot. 2235. E.)—Allion. 27. 1 and 3.

Whole plant more or less hairy, (three feet high. E.) Leaves fringed with hairs, edged with a few minute distant teeth; dark green above, glaucous underneath, (numerous, alternate. E.) Flowers numerous, bright yellow, forming a panicle. (Seeds very smooth, brown. Peduncles downy. The glaucous green of the leaves is alone sufficient to distinguish this from all our other species. (Differs from H. denticulatum. E. Bot. 2122, with which it was confounded in Fl. Brit. in having the leaves embrace the stem by their rounded dilated base, and in their singular roughness near the edge, which there forms a bristly border. E. Bot. E.) (ROUGH-BORDERED HAWKWEED. H. spicatum. Allion. Pedem. i. p. 208. Dicks.; but no trivial name could be more improper as applied to a plant with a large spreading panicle. H. prenanthoides. Villars. Willd. With. Sm. Hook. Sym. Hull. E.) Found by Mr. Dickson in woods in the south of Scotland. Linn. Tr. ii. 288. (Near Pitmain. Mr.J. Mackay. Banks of the Esk near Forfar. Mr. G. Don. Near Cramond Bridge. Mr. Neill, in Grev. Edin. Willington Ballast Hills, Durham. Mr. Winch, in Bot. Guide. E.) P. June-Aug. (H. LAWSON'I. Stem branched, solid, few-leaved: leaves elliptic-lanceolate, decurrent, glaucous, fringed, nearly entire.

E. Bot. 2083-Villars, Dauph. v. 3, t. 29—Dill. Elth. 149.

Root black externally. Herb glaucous, abounding in bitter milk. Stems pithy, a foot high, or more, smooth, bearing one, two, or three leaves. Flowers very large and handsome, lemon-coloured; calyx hairy. Leaves chiefly radical, on long dilated foot-stalks, copiously hairy at the base. Sm.

GLAUCOUS HAIRY HAWKWEED. H. Lawsoni. Vill. Willd. Sm. Upon rocks by the rivulet between Shap and Anna well, Westmoreland. Mr. Lawson. On rocks by the Maze Beck, and at Maze Beck Scar, Westmoreland. Mr. W. Robertson, in Eng. Fl. On the sloping side of a hill called Gordil, near Malham, in Craven. Dr. Richardson. Foot of Ben Cruachan. Prof. Hooker. Rocks at Dunkeld. Mr. Winch. P. July, E-)

H. PALUDO'SUM. Stem (angular, tubular, E.) panicled: leaves amplexicaul, toothed, smooth: calyx hispid.

(E. Bot. 1094. E.)—Allion. 28. 2 and 31. 2-Fl. Dan. 928-Ger. 236— Ger. Em. 300-J. B. ii. 1033. 1—J. B. ii. 1026. 3-H. Ox. vii. 5. 47. Stem one to two feet high, hollow, in which it differs from H. murorum; furrowed, smooth, generally bright purple at the base. Leaves smooth, alternate, the lower on leaf-stalks, oval-spear-shaped; the upper spearshaped, deeply toothed towards the base, entire at the summit; the : uppermost very entire. Leaf-stalks and midribs of the leaves sometimes purple, especially underneath. Fruit-stalks smooth. Flowers solitary, smaller than in H. murorum. Calyx scales strap-spear-shaped, with numerous black hairs on the back. Woodw. Leaves notched like those of Dandelion but not so deeply. Flowers bright yellow.

MARSH SUCCORY-LEAVED HAWKWEED. Moist meadows, woods, and sides of rivulets in the mountainous parts of Craven, Yorkshire, and both in the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland. Hardrow Force, in Wensley Dale, Yorkshire. Mr. Wood. On the west side of the river just below the bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. Sir J. E. Smith. Near Rydal, Westmoreland. Mr. Woodward. At the Hermitage, near Taymouth. Dr. Stokes. Marshy ground at the foot of Pentland Hills. Dr. Hope. (Near Barnard Castle, Durham. Rev. J. Harriman. And Castle Eden Dean. Mr. Winch. E.) P. July.

(H. MACULA'TUM. Stem branched, tubular, many-leaved, cymose: leaves egg-spear-shaped, strongly toothed: teeth pointing forward.

E. Bot. 2121-Fl. Dan. 1113.

Taller, and more leafy than H. murorum, or sylvaticum. Has rather elliptical than heart-shaped leaves, whose strong deep teeth point forward, and are by no means radiated. Leaves strongly speckled with black. From H. sylvaticum it is also distinguished by the cymose, not panicled, growth of its stem; the flowers are also larger, more numerous, with a darker, thicker calyx, and the whole herbage of a darker green. Stem decidedly hollow. E. Bot. (This, according to Smith, "very distinct species," is considered by Prof. Hooker as var. sylvaticum. E.) STAINED-LEAVED HAWKWEED. H. sylvaticum. Oed. Sm. Linn. tr. vol. ix. 240. ß. H. murorum y. Fl, Brit. This plant was brought from Westmoreland in 1781, by Mr. Crowe, from whose garden it has established itself, by seed, in the neighbourhood of Norwich, preserving its original