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HIERACIUM amplexicaule.
Amplexicaul Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia JEqualis.
Gen. Char. Involucre imbricate, ovate. Receptacle
nearly naked, dotted. Pappus simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Glanduloso-pilose. Stem corymbose.
Leaves toothed ; radical ones oblongo-ovate, pe-
tiolate ; cauline ones several, cordate at the base
and amplexicaul.
Syn. Hieracium amplexicaule. Linn. Sp. PL 1129.
All. Ped. t. 1 5 ./. 1. t. 5 0 ./. 20. Hook. FI. Scot.
P. I. 232. Br. FI. 345.
F O U N D in the Clova Mountains by the late Mr. G. Don;
and upon the walls of the Castle of Cleish, Kinross-shire,
by G. A. W. Arnott, Esq. Mr. Bicheno has remarked it
on walls of the Oxford Botanic Garden, and justly observes,
that from that station alone it has an equal claim
to a place in the British Flora with Senecio squalidus and
some other plants. Whatever may be thought of its merits
to rank as a native of Britain, there can be no question of
the identity of the species with the true H . amplexicaule of
Linnaeus, which we have often gathered upon the Continent,
and which is, indeed, one of the most distinct of this
difficult genus.
It has a woody, perennial, thick root. The stem is a span
or more in height, and, as well as the leaves and involucre,
thickly covered with brown, glandular hairs, which are
most numerous on the peduncle and involucre. The leaves
are oblong, remotely and unequally toothed; the lower
ones, which proceed from the root, tapering into a short