H I E R AC I UM Pilofella.
Moufe-ear Hawkweed.
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SYNGENESIJ Polygamia-eequalis.
G en. C har. Recent, nearly naked, dotted. Cal. Imbricated,
ovate. Down Ample, feffile.
Seec. C har. Leaves elliptical, entire, downy beneath.
Scions creeping. Stalk Ample, leaAefs.
Syn. Hieracium Pilofella. Linn. Sp. PL 1125.
Sm. FI. Brit. 828. Hudf. 343. With. 682.
Hull. 175* Relb. 308. Sibth. 241. Abbot. 170.
Curt. Lond. fafc. 4. t. 54.
Pilofella repens. Rail Syn. 170.
F E W plants are more common than the Hieracium Pilofella,
in dry expofed places, fuch as gravelly banks, funny lawns,
and the tops of park walls, where it blofloms from May to the
end of July, prefenting its elegant fulphur-coloured flowers to
the noontide fun, while the furrounding herbage, and even its
own foliage, is withered and burnt up.
The roots are perennial, creeping by means of leafy fcions
protruded from their crown. Leaves fpreading, elliptical,
entire, of a fmooth, but not polifhed, green above, fprinkled
with rigid hairs that become tawny when dried; underneath
the leaves are clothed with a denfe white coat of down, intermixed
alfo with hairs. Stalks one, two, or three from the
crown of the root, eredt, Ample, round, hairy, deftitute of
leaves, except now and then a fmall bra&ea, and each bearing
one flower whofe calyx is rough with black hairs intermingled
with white. The florets are narrow, toothed at the end, pale
yellow above, remarkable for being elegantly ftriped with red
beneath. Receptacle rough with fhort briftles. Seeds brown,
ftriated, crowned with rough rigid down.