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Museum, where they have not only an extensive her- 

 barium, but also a large collection of drawings of plants, 

 I think I have been fortunate enough to identify this 

 plant also. 



It corresponds closely with Hieracmm pannosum of 

 Boissier's ' Flora Orientalis.' He says it has " large 

 oblong and broad leaves, obtuse or rather acute, with 

 a sessile base ; the stem is naked, with 3 to 5 flower- 

 heads, with its leaves closely packed ; sometimes the 

 stem is reduced to one flower ; the flower-heads are 

 large, globose and long peduncled. Two of its syno- 

 nyms are H. lanatuui and H. orieutale. It is found 

 in the rocky regions of Greece, Taurus, Cilicia, South 

 Armenia, etc. 



It is pictured in Rcichenbach's ' Flora Germanica,' 

 xix, pi. MDLV. Of course in Germany it might not 

 be expected to have such luxuriant foliage as the 

 artist has given it on the Assyrian Monuments. 

 Reichenbach says it has thick leaves, oblong cuneate, 

 with a simple or corymbose stem, and is very thickly 

 haired. 



Boissier, however, mentions a variety of this plant, 



called H. TaygeUun (a name taken from the ridge of 



mountains in Southern Greece), which is a beautiful 



plant, with peduncles of half to one-and-a-half feet in 



length. It is moreover clothed with a hair of a very 



silvery silkiness. Here then appears to be the key for 



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