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H IE R A C IU M alpinum.
Alpine flngle-flowered Hawkweed.
SYNGENES1A Polygamia-aqualis.
G en,. Char. Recep. nearly naked, dotted. Cal.
imbricated* ovate. Down Ample, feffile.
S pec. Char. Leaves oblong, undivided, entire or
toothed. Stalk almoft leaflefs, tingle-flowered.
Calyx hairy.
Syn. Hieracium alpinum. Linn. Sf. PI. 1124. 8m.
FI. Brit. 827. Hudf. 343. With. 683. Hull. 1 7 /
Lightf 434. 18.
H. villofum alpinum, flore magnO fingulari, caule
nudo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 169. t. 6. ƒ. 2.
R a Y was acquainted with this plant, but took it for Hiera.
cium quintum villofum of Clufius (H. villofum of Linnaeus), an
error rightly corrected by Dillenius. It grows on rocky parts
o f the high mountains of Wales and Scotland, flowering in
July.
Root perennial, abrupt, With feveral Jong ftrong fibres.
Whole herb clothed with prominent hoary rigid hairs, yel-
lowifh brown at their bafe. Leaves almoft all radical, obovate,
not broad, undivided, either entire or more or lefs toothed and
undulated. Stalk folitary, erecft, Ample, round, darker coloured
in the upper part, bearing generally one leaf near its bafe,
and a fmall bra&ea higher up. Calyx dark-coloured and very
hairy. Corolla large, of a full yellow. Tube of each floret
hairy. Seeds obovate, angular, dotted. Down feffile, rough.
Receptacle naked.
The fnullification of this Hieracium, when accurately compared
with Hedypnois Taraxici, is too unlike to warrant the
fuppofition of the latter being its hybrid offspring, though appearances
might at firft fight feem to countenance fuch an
idea. Linnams howevef eagerly grafped at his ingenious
pupil’ s fuggeftion, and has too pofitively infilled on it in his
Sp. Plant, and Difquifition on the Sexes of Plants.
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