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habit and characters. The late Mr. Teesdale also found it growing wild in Yorkshire, and designated it as a new species by the name it now bears. Rocky woods in the North Riding. Mr. Teesdale. On Breidden hill, Montgomeryshire. Mr. Bowman. (Rocks by Gordale Scar, Yorkshire, Mr. Dawson Turner, in Bot. Guide. Fir wood east of Forfar. Mr. G. Don, in Hook. Scot. E.) P. July-Sept. E.)

H. MURORUM. (Stem branched, panicled, with a single leaf: rootleaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, wavy. E.)

(E. Bot. 2082. E.)—Barr. Ic. 342-Tabern. 504. 2—J. B. ii. 1034. 1—Ger. Em. 304. 1-H. Ox. vii. 5. 54—Pet. 13. 2 and 3-Trag. 276—Munt. 233 -Pet. 11. 4.

(Stem eight to twenty inches high, scabrous and shortly pubescent, slightly branched upwards in a corymbose manner, and bearing mostly a single petiolate leaf, but when there are two, the upper one is usually sessile, Leaves more or less ovate, petiolate, subentire or toothed, the teeth spreading, hairy or subglabrous, often purplish beneath. Flowers rather large, deep yellow, on rather divaricate branches. Involucre (calyx), rough, with black bristly glands intermixed with a short pubescence, very different from H. Lawsoni. Grev. E.)

FRENCH LUNGWORT. GOLDEN LUNGWORT, or (WALL HAWKWEED. Welsh: Heboglys y Muriau. E.) Woods, old walls, shady banks, and balks of corn-fields. Bolton Abbey, Craven, Yorkshire. Castle Dinas Brân. Mr. Wood. Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Dr. Stokes. Conzic Scar, near Kendal. Mr. Woodward. (Cheddar Cliffs, Somersetshire. Mr. E. Forster, in E. Bot. On old walls about Shaftesbury; cliffs of Purbeck. Pulteney. Wood between Longridge and Shepscombe, near Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts: or may not this latter station, as also that of Cheddar Cliffs, belong to H. sylvaticum, it being extremely difficult even on the examination of many supposed specimens of each, to indicate invariable specific characteristics? At Hilton, Ryhope, and Castle Eden Dean, Durham. About the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland. Mr. Winch. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. On the High Tor rocks, Dartmoor. Rev. J. Pike Jones. E.) P. July

(Var. d. Fl. Brit. is said to have been discovered on Ben Gloe, and other mountains of Scotland, by Mr. J. Mackay, who described it with leaves toothed and snipped, not spotted; stems only a span high, hairy, nearly naked; blossoms double the size of those of other varieties; calyx covered with soft hairs, of a black colour. Very nearly allied to this must be considered H. pulmonarioides of Villars, H. pulmonarium of

E. Bot. 2307.

Stem branched, cymose, with few leaves, solid: leaves spear-shaped, deeply toothed, the teeth pointing forward. Radical-leaves numerous, rather clouded with purplish-brown than spotted, narrower than those of H. maculatum flowers also fewer and larger, and stem not half so tall as in that species.

Gathered by Mr. W. Borrer on the banks of the Scottish river Nevis, near the bridge: also on Gorsdale Scar, Yorkshire. Mr. Winch. July. P. E.)

(Mr. Dawson Turner suspects a new species, most resembling H. murorum, will be found on the walls of Castleton Castle, Derbyshire. E.)

(H. CERINTHOI'DES.

Stem solid, bearing a corymb, with leaves hairy, slightly toothed: stem-leaves oblong, semi-amplexicaul: root-leaves inversely egg-shaped leaf-stalks bearded with long hairs.

E. Bot. 2378-Gouan. Ill. t. 22, f. 4—Villars Dauph. v. 3, t. 32. Herb rather glaucous, one to one foot and a half high; stem nearly smooth, stout, slightly angular. Flowers rather large, pale yellow, on bristly stalks. Cal. covered with shaggy, but short, hairs. Radical-leaves besprinkled, though often slightly, with dots, a little like those of Cerinthe. Sm.

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HONEYWORT-LEAVED HAWKWEED. Near the head of Clova, &c. other discovery of Mr. G. Don, who states it to be by no means a scarce plant in the Highlands of Scotland, growing upon rocks. P. Aug. E.)

(H. AMPLEXICAU'LE.

Glanduloso-pilose: stem corymbose: leaves toothed; radical ones oblongo-ovate, petiolate; cauline ones cordate at the base, amplexicaul.

Has many points in common with the last species, but is every where covered with brownish glandular hairs, most thickly on the peduncles and involucre. Lower cauline leaves more or less oblong; upper ones truly cordate.

AMPLEXICAUL HAWKWEED. Walls the castle of Cleish, Kinross-shire. Mr. Arnott. Clova mountains. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. Said likewise to have become naturalized on the walls of Magdalen College, Oxford. Purt. Mid. Fl. P. Aug. E.) H. SYLVATICUM. (Stem solid, many-leaved, simply racemose: leaves egg-spear-shaped, toothed chiefly about the base: teeth pointing forward. Sm. E.)

(E. Bot. 2031. E.)—Allion. 28. 1-Lob. Obs. 517. 2, and Ic. i. 517. 1—Ger. Em. 304. 2-Park. 801. 2-Tabern. 505. 1—J. B. ii. 1034. 3. (Flowers bright yellow, smaller than those of H. maculatum, and much fewer, often but two or three in the panicle. Sm. E.)

(WOOD HAWKWEED. Welsh: Heboglys y goedwig. E.) H. murorum a. Fl. Brit. H. sylvaticum a. Hook. H. sylvaticum. With. Sm. Grev. Chalky woods, or old park walls. E.) Old Roman Camp at Sidmonton, near Newberry. On the side of the lake Llyn y Cwn. Ray. (Epping Forest, near Highbeach. Mr. E. Forster. Coal-pit heaps, near Gateshead, and on the town walls of Newcastle. Mr. Winch. Walls in Warwick. Perry. Arthur's Seat, and Braid Hill. Dr. Graham. Grev. Edin. E.) On Dudley Castle Hill, Staffordshire. P. Aug.

H. VILLO'SUM. Stem tubular, branched: leaves rough with hair: root-leaves egg-shaped, toothed: stem-leaves heart-shaped, amplexicaul.

Jacq. Austr. 87-Clus. 141-J. B. ii. 1027-H. Ox. vii. 5. 58—(E. Bot.

2379.

Root-leaves very variable in size, the smaller ones on very long leaf-stalks. Stem-leaves sometimes strap-shaped, and not embracing the stem. The whole plant woolly, and when cultivated rising to the height of four feet. (The copious long shaggy hairs of the stem, leaves, and calyx; and lemoncoloured flowers, nearly two inches over, distinguish this species. Sm. E.)

(SHAGGY ALPINE HAWKWEED. E.) Found by Mr. Dickson amongst wet rocks on Ben Nevis, Scotland. Linn. Tr. vol. ii. 286. On rocks near Loch Callater, north of Clova. Mr. T. Drummond. Eng. Fl. Clefts of Rocks near Meer Gill, at the foot of Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Mr. Caley, (who since conjectures his plant may prove a new species, unless it be H. alpinum. E.) P. Aug. (H. Halleri, thus characterised: "Stem erect, with one or two flowers, slightly leafy; leaves hairy; lower ones obovate-oblong, stalked, toothed; upper lanceolate, much diminished; calyx shaggy." Considered by Smith as decidedly distinct both from H. villosum and alpinum, for which latter it has sometimes been mistaken; but it appears to be a somewhat taller plant; with the calyx, according to Hooker, having "long silky hairs, principally near the margins of the scales,"-" by no means shaggy like H. alpinum-with a flower of a full golden yellow, not lemon-coloured like H. villosum;" Sm., is said to have been found by Mr. G. Don on Clova mountains, in the Highlands of Scotland.-In a recent number of that most accurate, elegant, and, as far as merit can establish such a title, truly national work, the Flora Londinensis, Professor Hooker gives a representation of H. Halleri, (t. 215,) but considerable discrepancy may still be detected in the different accounts of this plant. The above learned author remarks, "This, however, like all the other species of the genus, is liable to much variety in the size of the plant and especially in the breadth and toothing of the leaves;" and, in allusion to H. Lawsoni, murorum, villosum, and alpinum, admits that he "can find no limits to any of the characters." É.)

H. MOL'LE. Leaves soft, spear-shaped, nearly entire, (semi-amplexicaul: E.) lower ones on leaf-stalks: flowers on fruit-stalks nearly forming a corymb.

Dicks. H. S.-Jacq. Austr. 119—(E. Bot. 2210. E.) Stem upright, unbranched, one or two feet high, scored, purplish, leafy, somewhat hairy. Fruit-stalks terminal, few, one or two-flowered, one inch and a half long. Leaves oval, blunt, hairy on both sides, soft, the upper sitting, the lower tapering into leaf-stalks. Calyx not tiled. Leafits dark green, hairy, uniform. Flowers deep yellow. Seeds reddish, scored. It approaches H. murorum, and sometimes grows along with it, but it differs in the colour of the flowers, the number of leaves on the stem, and is truly distinct. Jacq. (Remarkable for obtuse radical leaves, which taper gradually into a long foot-stalk. Scales of the involucre (calyx) with a few black glandular hairs. Hook. E.) (SOFT-LEAVED HAWKWEED. H. molle. Jacq. Willd. Sm. Hook. by Mr. Dickson in the south of Scotland. Linn. Tr. vol. ii. 286. Lower fall of the Tummel, Glen Luss. Mr. Borrer. Hook. Scot. E.)

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P. July-Aug H. UMBELLA'TUM. (Stem erect, somewhat umbellate, nearly solid: leaves strap-shaped, somewhat toothed, scattered: but slightly hairy. E.) Curt.-Kniph. 9-(E. Bot. 1771. E.)-Pet. 13. 10 and 11-Clus. ii. 140— Dod. 638. 2-Lob. Obs. 120. 3, and Ic. i. 240. 1-Ger. Em. 298. 5-Park. 801. 4-J. B. ii. 1030. 1—Fl. Dan. 680—Ger. 234. 6. Stem two to four feet high, simple, cylindrical, scored, hollow, (pithy with a small cavity in the centre, Sm. E.) nearly smooth. Leaves numerous, without order, decreasing in size upwards, sessile, strap-spear

shaped, with a few pointed teeth towards the base, edges and ribs slightly hairy. Flowers large, yellow. Fruit-stalks branched, cottony. Floralleaves awl-shaped. Calyx scales strap-spear-shaped, the outer somewhat cottony, the inner smooth. Seeds cylindrical, smooth, furrowed. Down as long as the calyx. Woodw.

NARROW-LEAVED HAWKWEED. (Welsh: Heboglys culddail. E.) Hedges and dry shady places. Ditchingham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Ditch banks near Birmingham. Stokes. (Woody hills at the back of Thorpe, near Norwich. E. Bot. Sea coast at Rooker's Gill, near Monk Wearmouth, Durham. Winch Guide. Dartmouth Castle. Rev. J. Pike Jones. On the walls of Warwick Castle; and at Hord's Park, Salop. Purton. On south east side of Anglesey. Welsh Bot. King's Seat, Dunkeld. Lightfoot. E.)

Var. 2. Leaves smooth, very entire, dark green; Dill. in R. Syn. truly linear.

Pet. 13. 12.

About London, but not common. Near Bungay, frequent. Mr. Woodward. P. Aug.* CREPIS. Recept. naked, (very slightly hispid: Fl. Brit. E.) Calyx double, outer one deciduous: Down hair-like, somewhat pedicellate. ‡

C. FETIDA. (Leaves between notched and winged, with reversed teeth, hirsute: leaf-stalks toothed: stem hairy: calyx downy. E.)

(E. Bot. 406. E.)-Col. Ecphr. 242-Park. 794. 3-Dod. 641. 3-Lob. Obs. 113. 1, and Ic. i. 226. 1—Ger. Em. 279-H. Ox. vii. 44-Pet. 12. 8 and 9 -Magn. Bot. 129.

Unopened flowers nutant. Leaves smelling like bitter almonds. Linn. rather like opium. Relh. Flowers small, yellow. (Stems spreading, branched, leafy, cylindrical, hairy; the central one only upright, about a foot high. Calyx hairy or woolly. Blossom reddish at the back. Receptacle honey-combed. Seeds slender, yellowish, furrowed, roughish. Fl. Brit. Down on a long rough stalk. Herb lactescent. E.) FETID HAWK'S-BEARD. Dry meadows and pastures. About Cambridge. Ray. Banstead Downs, by the side of the road to Dorking. Charlton chalk pits, Kent. Petiver. Near Greenhithe. Barton, near Swaffham, Norfolk. Mr. Pitchford. Near the sixth mile stone from Bury to Newmarket; and Great Saxham. Sir T. G. Cullum. Willington Ballast Hills, Durham. Mr. Winch. E.) B. June-July.

C. TECTORUM. Leaves spear-shaped, notched, sessile, smooth; the lower ones (runcinate, amplexicaul. E.)

Curt. 327-(E. Bot. 1111. E.)-Walc.-Fl. Dan. 501—Pet. 12. 6—Gmel. ii. 6-Lob. Ic. i. 239–Ger. Ém. 297. 4-Park. 794. 2-H. Or. vii. 7. 29

(In Scania, the Narrow-leaved Hawkweed is said to furnish an elegant dye for woollens. E.)

† (From xpezis, a shoe; the blossom bearing some resemblance to the form of a slipper. E.)

(It has been attempted to limit the present genus to such as have the down of the seed sessile, the others being denominated Barkhausia and Prenanthes; but the down, being far from invariable in this respect, affords no positive criterion. E.)

J. B. ii. 1024. 1–Dod. 636. 3-Lob. Obs. 113. 1, and Ic. 1. 229. 2— Ger. Em. 284. 2—Park. 777. 2—J. B. ii. 1024. 2-Gér. 228. 2. Plant of an ash-coloured green. Stem angular, furrowed, (one to three feet high. E.) Branches as long as the stem. Root-leaves resembling those of Leontodon Taraxacum; stem-leaves those of L. autumnale, but with the teeth at the base upright and longer; branch-leaves entire, strap-shaped, somewhat arrow-shaped and rolled back at the edge. Flowers of the appearance of those of Lapsana Communis, never drooping. Caly furrowed, sprinkled longitudinally with clammy hairs. The plant, in most other respects, liable to great variations of structure and appearance, when growing in a rich soil as figured in Ger 228. 2, when in a poor soil more slender, about a foot high, with strap-shaped leaves somewhat toothed, resembling those of Plantago Coronopus, (as in Gmel. i. 6. St.) or a hand's breadth high. Linn. Root very long and taper. Stems purplish, often twisted, smooth. Calyx with black or brownish white hairs, terminating in small transparent globules; outer leaves five to ten, not deciduous; inner keeled towards the bottom. Florets yellow on both sides. Down sessile, rather longer than the seeds, or the tube of the blossom.

SMOOTH SUCCORY HAWKWEED or HAWK's-BEARD. (Welsh: Gwalchlys lufn. E.) Meadows, pastures, walls, roofs, road sides. A. June-Sept. Var. 2. Leaves tapering to a fine point.

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Pastures about London.

Pet. 12. 7.

July-Aug.

Var. 3. Leaves entire, toothed, either spear-shaped or egg-shaped.

Pastures about London.

Pet. 12. 7.

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Sometimes the leaves are very entire, scarcely producing a single tooth. Var. 4. Stems trailing, leaves strap-shaped, very narrow, apparently from the stem having been bitten off in the spring.

C. BIENNIS. Leaves notched, wing-cleft, rough, toothed above the base: calyx bristly.

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E. Bot. 149-Kniph. 6—J. B. ii. 1025. 3-C, B. Pr. 64-Park. 793-H. Ox. vii. 4. 46-Pet. 12. 10.

Stem angular, rough, four to six feet high, brittle. Leaves, all between lyre-shaped and winged, bristly underneath, (especially on the mid-rib. E) Calyx furrowed, beset lengthwise with soft prickles. Flowers closing early. Linn. Leaves at the base of the lowermost flowering branches similar to the leaves below, those at the base of the upper flowering branches strap-spear-shaped. Flowering branches spreading, with several flowers. Flowers on separate fruit-stalks. Floral-leaves spear-shaped. Blossom yellow, (large, reddish underneath. E.) Seeds furrowed. Down sessile, hair-like, extending a little beyond the calyx.

Woodw.

ROUGH SUCCORY HAWKWEED or HAWK'S-BEARD. Meadows and pastures in a calcareous soil. Road from Sittingbourne to Rochester; and about Northfleet and other places in Kent and Essex. Hudson. Near Bury St. Edmund's. Mr. Mathew. Fl. Brit. (Sunderland Ballast, Hills. Mr. Winch. Coast south of Sunderland. Mr. Waugh. On the Wolds, west of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire. Teesdale. On the Downs near Ewel,

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