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with H. snhmurorum. Dr. Elfsti'and remarked (1894) on sjDeeimens 

 in Herb. Hanbury : — " This is a very good species, most nearly allied 

 to H. iricum Fr., which Fries referred to the section Ceriiithoidea. 

 No species of this form in Scandinavia." Most certainly this was 

 wide of the mark ; even alpine states of iriaim differ widely from it, 

 especially in having several stem-leaves, gradually decreasing in size 

 upwards. W. R. Linton, in The British Hieracia (1905), p. 36, 

 placed it as his first species in Vtilgata, Group i. ^ilvatica — a classifi- 

 cation which I was never able to accept. 



Recent careful comparison has convinced me that its proper place 

 is among the less glandular series of the § Alpina Nigrescentia, and 

 that H. Marshalli Linton is its closest ally. The leaves iisually have 

 some small marginal glands (a characteristic feature of the AJpina) ; 

 and the other characters fit in best with this section. Connecting- 

 links are to be found in vars. glamlulosum (which is, practically, a 

 very dark and glandular-headed i1/r/rs//r?Z//) and cremnanthes, especially 

 the latter ; but I have not the slightest hesitation in placing both 

 under H. Marshalli, as was done by Mr. Hanbury, when describing 

 them. 



HiERACiUM SCANICUM Dahlst. Plants gathered by me in June, 

 1898, on sandy railway- banks between Brookwood and North Camp, 

 W. Surrey, v.c. 17 (No. 2131), and on sandy ground and hedgebanks 

 about Fleet, v.c. 12 N. Hants (No. 2130), are a very fine form of 

 H. scanicum, practically identical with the Rev. Augustin Ley's 

 Symonds Yat (v.c. 34 W. Gloster) specimens. To this species must 

 also be referred a gathering (No. 26S7) from Fittleworth, v.c. 13 

 W. Sussex, May to June, 1902. All three {H. scanicum not having, 

 at that time, been identified as British) were referred to H. surre- 

 janum F. J. Hanb., var. megalodon Linton ; from which they differ 

 in habit, foliage, and especially in the numerovis black gland-tipped 

 hairs of their phyllaries. 



HiEBACiUM HYPARCTicuM (Journ. Bot. 1918, 90). Since my 

 notice of its occurrence in Norway wa.s written, a copy of Dr. Elf- 

 strand's Hieracia Alpina des mittleren UTiandinavien-s (1893) has 

 been given to me. On pp. 50 and 51 he described a new subsp. wall- 

 hoense, found in Jemtland, Sweden, near Wallbo, Areskutan, and 

 Rentjellet ; as well as in Norway, near KongsAvold, on the Dovre 

 range. It differs from the type (Greenland ; Scotland) in having 

 involucres less glandular, and clothed with rather numerous simple 

 hairs, with long, grey-tipped points. He thought that the Greenland 

 Hieracium-FlorA was probably derived from north-west Europe, 

 having been conveyed by sea-currents or drift-ice ; but it seems to 

 ine more likel}' that they are either circumpolar, or of North American 

 origin. 



HiERACiUM Leti F. J. Hanb., var. testitum Ley in W. Inver- 

 ness. In 1916 I made two gatherings (Nos. 4327 and 4329) in 

 Coire nan Gall, Laggan district, between 2000 and 2500 feet, which 

 Rev. E. F. Linton agreed to as being an iinusual form of H. Leyi, 

 with remarkably dark, glandular, and hairy heads, pure yellow styles, 



