HI ERACI UM denticulatum.
Small-toothecl Hawkweed.
SYNGENESIS Polygamia-cequalis.
G en. Char. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Doiun simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Stem erect, many-flowered, solid. Leaves
sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, finely toothed, smoothish,
glaucous beneath. Flowerstalks glandular and cottony.
Syn. Hieracium prenanthoides. Sm. FL Brit. 835, excluding
all the synonyms, except
H. Kalmii. Sym. Syn. 173. Hull. 176.
D a u p h i n y specimens in Mr. Davall’s herbarium show
this not to be H. prenanthoides of Villars, whilst Scottish ones
from Mr. G. Don prove it H. Kalmii of British writers, of
which he claims the first discovery at Loch Rannach, Perthshire,
in 1794. Mr. Dickson communicated it, many years
ago, from Harehead wood, near Selkirk, to Mr. E. Forster,
from whose garden our specimen was taken. It is widely
different from H. Kalmii of Linnaeus, and therefore we have
given it a new name, expressive of one of the essential marks.
It is perennial, and flowers in July.
Stem a yard high, upright, round, striated, roughisb,
spongy and solid (scarcely fistulous) within, beset with several
alternate leaves, and ending in a corymbose panicle of
many full-yellow moderate-sized flowers, on very hispid,
glandular, cottony stalks. Leaves sessile, not properly embracing
the stem; the lower one3 tapering at their base, and
elliptic-lanceolate; the upper exactly ovate; all acute, thin,
smoothish, finely and minutely toothed, the teeth obtuse and
glandular; sometimes fringed, but not strongly; glaucous
beneath. Calyx brownish, muricated, cottony ana rather
viscid. Bracteas small, entire, acute. Seeds angular, very
smooth. Down rough.
Haller’s n°. 43 proves the true prenanthoides, but Mr. Davall
thought another. species was confounded with it under that
number. Whether either of these be really British, we must
leave for future inquiry, the difficulties relating to this genus
not being yet all removed.