P I C R I S hieracioides.
Haiakweed Ox-tongue.
S T N G E N E S IA Polygamia a quails.
Gen. C har. Receptacle naked. Cal. double. Down
more or lefs feathery. Seeds rugg£f|y
Spec. C har. Calyx lax. Leaves moftly undivided.
Flower (talks furnifhed with fcales up to the calyx.
Syn . Picris hieracioides. Linn. Sp. PI. 1115. IVith.
Rot. Arr. 830. Relh. Cant. 297.
Hedypnois hieracioides. HudJ. FI. An. 342.
Hieracium afperum majori (lore in agrorum limi-
tibus.. Rail Syn. 167.
T h IS occurs abundantly about the borders of fields in a
gravelly or calcareous foil, flowering in July and Auguft. It is
a plant of rude growth and not very attractive appearance. The
root, we believe, is perennial, or at leaft biennial; Item much
branched, three feet high; the branches furrowed, purple
on their upper fide and in their axillae, as Linnaeus molt truly
obferves. Leaves oblong, feflile, undivided, except that the
radical ones are frequently grofsly dentated. The herb is
rough with hooked briftles. Flowers bright yellow, the
lateral ones rifing on elongated branches above that which terminates
the central ftem. Calyx-leaves all rough on the back.
Seed-down flightly feathery, feflile.
Dr. Stokes’s remark in the Botanical Arrangement (p. 855,
note), that the Hedypnois of Hudfon is- an artificial genus, is
perfeftly juft. Its fpecies are no way naturally allied, and the
down, being feflile or ftipitate, affords no certain permanent
charader in this tribe.