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HIERACIUM Auricula.
Orange Mouse-ear Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-aqualis.
G en. Cha.r. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Down simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, nearly entire, besprinkled
with long hairs. Scions short. Stalk
hairy, bearing several close-set flowers.
Syn. Hieracium Auricula. Linn. Sp. PI. 1126. Snt.
FI. Frit. 829. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 9. 230. Iiuds.
344 ? With. 684 ? Hull. ed. 2. 231 ?
H. dubium. FI. Dan. t. 1044.
To render our illustration of the British Flora as complete
as possible, we judge it indispensable to give a figure of this
little-known species, though we can do it from dried exotic
specimens only; but having gathered them fresh on Mount
Cenis, we can vouch for the accuracy of the plate in every
point. W e doubt very much whether this Hieracium has a
right to a place in the British list, but our figure, being kept
in view, will serve, in due time, to settle that question. What
Hudson gathered on Dalehead, Westmoreland, cannot be ascertained
but by a scrupulous investigation of the spot, and a
comparison between our present plate and t. 2332.
This species dithers sufficiently from dubium in having lanceolate
acute leaves, green on both sides; a yery hairy stalk,
bearing from 2 to 3, 4, or even 5, close-set, often umbellate
flowers, rather smaller than those of dubium, and of a full
yellow inclining to orange. The calyx is black. Long tawny
hairs are scattered more or less abundantly over every part o f
the herbage. The root is perennial, creeping, but not extensively,
with long strong fibres. The scions are few and short.
In a garden they might prove more luxuriant, and the habit
of the whole plant more lax.