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HIERACIUM dubium.
Branching Mouse-ear Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-oequalis.
G en. Char. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Down simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, nearly entire,
besprinkled with long hairs ; rather glaucous beneath.
Scions creeping. Stalk bearing several
flowers.
S yn. Hieracium dubium. Linn. Sp. PI. 1125. Srfl.
FI. Brit. 828. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 9 . 226. Huds.
344. With. 684. Hull. ed. 2 . 230.
H. Auricula. FI. Dan. t. 1111.
H. n. 53. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 22.
I T is hoped that all uncertainties respecting the synonyms of
this species and H. Auricula are now removed by the remarks
in the Linn. Trans, cited above. We have lately verified the
present as a British native, by living specimens from the Cambridge
garden, received from Scotland by it s excellent Curator,
confirming the authorities on which we depended in FI. Brit.
Mr. Donn favoured us at the same time with H. Auricula of his
Catalogue, which, we are sorry to say, appears a very slight
variety of dubium, so that we have still to seek the real Auricula
on the exposed top of some Scottish or Westmoreland moun-
Our garden specimen is probably more luxuriant than wild
ones. The natural time of this plant’s flowering seems to be
June and July. The spreading leafy scions throw out many
perennial roots, like H. Pilosella, t. 1093, from which this
differ^ in having longer narrower leaves, glaucous (not white
and cottony, though occasionally downy,) beneath, and a
stalk be irino* two, three or four flowers, rather smaller than m
Pilosella, and yellow on both sides, not beautifully red underneath.
The leaves are besprinkled, and their base fringed,
with coarse spreading hairs.