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H IE RA C IUM sylvaticum.
Wood Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-cequalis.
G en. Char. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Down simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Stem branched, many-leaved. Leaves
ovato-lanceolate, toothed chiefly about the base, the
teeth pointing forward.
Syn. Hieracium sylvaticum. Sm. in Tr. o f Linn. Soc.
v. 9 . 239. Gouan. Obs. 56, by the description.
With. 687. Galpine, 67.
H. murorum. Ehrh. Herb. 147. Hllion. Ped. t. 28.
ƒ. 1. Sm. FI. Brit. «. 830.
H. murorum, folio pilosissimo. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 74.
ed. 3. 168.
T h e history of this plant and H. murorum, somewhat confused,
in consequence of old mistakes, in FI. Brit, is explained
in the Linnsean Society’s Transactions,, vol. 9 , more fully than
we can here repeat. It is only necessary to say that the synonyms
of Ray, Gerarde and Petiver, FI. Brit. 831, actually
belong, not to this Hawkweed, but to Cineraria integrifolia,
as is proved by a specimen from Dr. Lamb of Newberry.
The plant before us was gathered by Mr. E. Forster in
Epping forest near Highbeach. k is however not uncbmmon
in various parts of the kingdom, in dry chalky woods, or on
old park walls, flowering usually in July, and again late in
autumn, like the more rare H. muronim, of which w e hope
another season to obtain a drawing. The root is perennial,
slender, slightly creeping, with long simple fibres. Herb
hairy, of a pale grass green. Stem more or less branched,
round, panicled, bearing several alternate long-stalked leaves,
whose form is lanceolate inclining to ovate, acute, most
toothed about their lower half, the teeth either direct or
pointing forwards, not backwards. Flowers of a full lemon,
not orange, yellow', rather small, their calyx rough, rather
more cylindrical than ovate.
H. murorum y FI. Brit. 830, if not a distinct species,
which we much suspect, is rather a variety of this.
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