76 FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA NEW TO BRITAIN. 



during three successive seasons, and now have it in cultivation. It 

 belongs to the same section as the last, and is nearly allied to it, 

 but differs in having long, stalked, lanceolate, radical leaves, more 

 numerous (2 or 3) stem leaves, and the involucre densehj floccose 

 and clothed with numerous black-based hairs and netce. The styles 

 are olive-yellow, rather than olive-brown. In general appearance 

 and outline the plant is quite distinct from the preceding. Prof. 

 Babington tells me he has a similar plant collected by Prof. Oliver 

 on Ben Clibrick. This mountain, though about thirty miles from 

 where I collected my specimens, rises above Loch Naver, out of 

 which the River Naver flows, and the locality is consequently in the 

 same watershed. 



H. proximum, n. sp. First found at Reay Links, Caithness, 

 in 1885, by the Piev. H. E. Fox and myself. I have collected and 

 observed it at the same place four years in succession. In 1887 

 I found it by the Thurso River, in Caithness, and also on the sandy 

 cliffs west of the Naver, in Sutherland. It is a very handsome 

 plant, and a well-marked species. In confirmation of this latter 

 remark I may mention that on our arrival at the little inn at Reay 

 last summer, we met the Revs. E. F. & W. R. Linton, who told us 

 they had just come across a Hieracium that was certainly new; the 

 plant to which they referred proved to be the above, and was from 

 the original station. It belongs to the vuh/atuni section. Dr. 

 Lindeberg wrote of a Reay specimen, "Forma ad H. vulgata, in 

 Scandinavia ignota"; and subsequently of a specimen from the 

 Thurso River, " H. vulgato affine, .... spec, nova." The plant 

 is of robust habit, bearing few large showy heads. Styles olive- 

 brown. Involucral bracts broad, and clothed with long, white, 

 black-based hairs, and few setae. The leaves are of a yellowish- 

 green colour, thick leathery texture, and rough on both surfaces 

 with bulbous-based hairs. Cauline leaves, two or three, rapidly 

 decreasing upwards. 



H. aocatum Fr., var. maritiiinnii. This is another beautiful 

 form from the north coast of Sutherland, growing on sandy slopes 

 by the sea. It is of a tall, narrow, upright habit. The foliage is 

 very dark green, and the stem of a reddish -purple colour. It differs 

 from the type chiefly in tlie long, narrow, practicalhj entire, fleshy 

 leaves, and iu the extraordinarily broad, dark, involucral bracts. 



I will only add that my object in this, as in my preceding paper, 

 has been to draw attention to, rather than give any detailed 

 descriptions of, these new species and varieties. I hope during 

 the course of the next few weeks to send examples of them all 

 to the Botauical D« partment of the British Museum at South 

 Kensington, so that any who may feel an interest in them may be 

 able to refer to them there, pending the fuller descriptions and 

 plates which I hope to publish before long. 



