HIERACIUM umbellatum.
Narrow-leaved, Hawkweed.
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SYNGENE SI A Polygaruia-cequalis.
G en. Char. Recept. nearly naked, dotted. Cal. imbricated,
ovate. Down simple, sessile.
Spec. Char. Stem erect, somewhat umbellate. Leaves
linear, scattered, slightly toothed.
Syn. Hieracium umbellatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1131. Sm.
FI. Brit. 835. Buds. 346. With. 688. Hull.
177. Relh. 309. Sibth. 242. Abbot. 171. Curt.
Lond.fasc. 6. t. 58,
H. fmticosum angustifolium majus. Rail Syn. 168,
n. 3 ; also n. 4 and 5 .
G a t h e r e d on the beautiful woody hills at the back of
Thorpe, near Norwich, where it flowers in August. It loves
a dry gravelly or stony soil, and a shady situation among
bushes and brakes.
Root perennial, of several simple fibres. Stem erect, 2 or
3 feet high, unbranched, round, leafy, except near the bottom,
smooth or slightly downy upwards, terminating in
several wavy, scaly, simple, swelling flower-stalks, forming
rather a corymbus than an umbel, except from some accidental
injury. Leaves numerous, scattered, sessile, linear, or linear-
lanceolate, slightly or distantly toothed, dark green, often
shining, sometimes downy. Calyx dark green, almost always
smooth; the tips of its scales recurved. Corolla of a bright
and full yellow, rather large, closed in an afternoon. Seed
angular, brown, finely dotted, crowned with rough brownish
down. Receptacle in some degree scaly.
This species varies in the breadth, smoothness and teeth of
the leaves, which are sometimes almost grassy, especially in
Wales and other mountainous countries. Np other British
Hawkweed can be confounded with it.