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HIERACIUM aurantiacum.
Orange Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-cequalis.
G en. Char. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Down simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Leaves elliptical, entire. Stem almost
naked, simple, hairy, bearing a corymbus of many
flowers.
Syn. Hieracium aurantiacum. Linn. Sp. PL 1126.
Don. Herb.fasc. 2. 41.
H. hortense latifolium, sive Pilosella major. Ger.
em. 305.
M r . GEORGE DON has found this truly wild in several
woods in Banffshire, as well as at Craigston in the neighbourhood
of Turref, and it is quite a new acquisition to the British
Flora. It is perennial, flowering in July, and has long been
known in gardens, where it grows without trouble, still retaining,
in various parts of England, the old name, recorded
in Gerarde, of Grim the Collier, in allusion to the smutty
effect of the black glandular hairs which invest the stalks and
calyx.
The root creeps, and throws out many scions. Stem a foot
high or more, erect, simple, round, very hairy, scarcely
bearing one or two small leaves, and crowned with a corymbus
of several handsome flowers, remarkable for their deep
brownish orange colour. The calyx and flower-stalks are
clothed, besides the above black hairs, with longer pale or
tawny ones, like those on the leaves and stem. The leaves are
nearly all radical, elliptical, broad, entire, hairy, especially
the rib. Receptacle naked. Seed-down roughish.