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subtus parce pilosa et leviter stellata. — Folium caulinum minutum 

 lineare, sessile, subintegrum v. parvum, lanceolatum, petiolatum, 

 basi parce, anguste et longe dentatum, cæterum + integrum, + 

 stellatum et pilosnm. — Inflorescentia furcato-paniculata 2 — 3-cephala, 

 pedicellis erecto-patentibus, summis acladium 20—45 mm. longum 

 + longe superantibus, infimis brevioribus, pilis raris, brevibus, ob- 

 scuris, glandulis sparsis v. sub involucris densioribus et floccis 

 sparsis, superne densiusculis vestitis. — Involucra obscura, brevia, 

 crassa, 12 — 14 m. m. longa 8 — 10 mm. lata basi rotundata, postea 

 truncata, squamis latis, extimiis linearibus, obtusis, intermediis basi 

 lata sensim in apicem obtusiusculum attenuatis, intimis e basi lata 

 vulgo subito v. sensim in apicem acutiusculum contractis, in mar- 

 ginibus stria floccosa + angusta notatis, in apicibns præsertim squ. 

 interiorum efloccosis, leviter v. vix comosis, cæterum in dorso parce 

 stellatis, pilis mollibus, brevibus, albescentibus v. fuscis basi brevi 

 crassa nigra, + densis et glandulis brevibus parum conspicuis ob- 

 tectis. — Calathium 40 — 45 mm. diametro, subplenum, ligulis latis, 

 breviter dentatis, stylo luteo-ferrugineo. 



Ostero: Kodlen near Ejde at 400 m. (H. G. Simmons). Flower and 

 fruit, August 17, 1895. 



H. sarcophylloides belongs to Subcæssia of Siluatica and especi- 

 ally to the section of forms, the more developed members of which 

 are represented in Scandinavia by H. sarcophyllum Stenstr. and 

 H. plumuligerum Dahlst. These and related forms undoubtedly be- 

 long to an older group of forms within the section just mentioned, 

 and, on the one hånd, have characters in common with such extreme 

 forms as H. stenolepis Lbg. and H. sagittatum Lbg., and, on the other, 

 approach certain forms of Cerinthoidea , especially those bearing a 

 decided resemblance to the siluaticum-type 1 . 



This form is distinguished from H. sarcophyllum Stenstr. by its 

 thinner, longer, and fewer-toothed leaves, by its shorter stem, which 

 is usually leafless or has an undeveloped narrow leaf, by the fewness 

 of its heads which occur in a more dichotomous inflorescence, with 

 longer and more erect peduncles, covered sparsely with glandular 

 hairs, by its broader involucre, more densely hairy, and with a few 

 glandular hairs, and by its broader and more obtuse phyllaries. 



1 As regards the morphologic-biologie types belonging to the genus Hieracium 

 I refer to my: »Hidrag till sydostra Sveriges Hieracium-floraLt. II. Kongl. Svenska 

 Vetenskapsakademiens Handlinger. Bd. 25, No. 15, l«S!i:{. 



