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protuberances, sparingly hairy, with rather long white han-s above, 

 and distmctly ciUated with similar hairs round the margins, 

 reticulated beneath, with a few soft white hairs most numerous on 

 the midrib. Leaves sjDaringly distributed over the stem up to the 

 inflorescence, not more crowded in the upper part, and, indeed, 

 often more distant there than on the lower part of the stem ; the 

 lowest oval, or oval-obovate, or broadly-elliptical-obovate, gradually 

 contracted into slender, distinct petioles ; intermediate ones regu- 

 larly oval, or broadly elliptical, narrowed at each end, semi- 

 amplexicaul, but scarcely auricled ; uppermost ones ovate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaul, rounded at the base, acuminate ; 

 all sub-enth'e, or denticulate in the middle, with the teeth remote 

 and often reduced merely to callous x^oints, bright green, sub- 

 glabrous, or with short distant, rather stiff, bristly hairs above, 

 paler though not glaucous beneath, with the network formed of 

 the ultimate veins apparent but not very distinct, with rather long 

 stiff bail's on the veins and margins, and with shorter distant ones 

 all over the lower surface. Anthodes rather small, few, in a simple 

 corymb, or, if more numerous, in a lax panicle, with straggling 

 branches, at the extremity of which there are a few sub-racemosely 

 disposed anthodes. Pedicels short, incurved, usually with one or 

 two minute bracts beneath the anthode. Periclme in flower sub- 

 cylmdiical from an obconic base, in fi'uit conical. Phyllaries few, 

 in two h-regular series ; the outer ones very few, short, adpressed, 

 sub-obtuse; the mner ones with pale margins, obtuse; all blackish - 

 olive, rather sparingly clothed with short black haks and longer 

 black-based white ones, usually with a very few black gland-tipped 

 hau's, rarely with any stellate down except at the very base. 

 Ligules not ciliated at the apex. Styles fuscous. Achenes chestnut- 

 brown. Plant bright green. 



" Shores of Loch Long, and Liverarnon (probably in Dumbarton- 

 shire)? Inversnaid, Stu'lingslm-e : and Killin, Perthshire." — Dr. J. 

 H. Balfour. " Lethensdene, Clackmannanshire, and Glen Devon, 

 Perthshii-e." — Dr. A. Dewar. " Lethensdene and Linmill, on the 

 Black Devon and Glen of Sorrow (Tributary to the Devon), 

 Clackmannanslm-e ; Glen Devon, at the mouth of Glen Quay, and 

 near the opening to Glen Eagles, Perthshire." — Tom Drummond. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late summer and autumn. 



Leaves of the autumnal rosette with the lamina, 2 inches 

 long ; radical leaves in spring, scarcely forming a rosette, and 

 often decayed before flowering, 3-8 inches long and 1-2^ mches 

 broad, insensibly attenuated into the petiole ; intermediate leaves, 

 2-5 inches long by f-2i inches broad. Stem 1-3 feet high. 

 Panicle branches, 2-8 inches long. Anthodes about the size of 

 those of R. vuhjatum. Pericline about ^-incli long by J-inch in 

 diameter. 



The British, or reputed British species of Hieracia to which 

 H. Deivari is most nearly allied are H. Jiiranwn, Fries, 

 (Borreri, 'E. B.,' ed. iii.), and H. G-othicum, Fries. No doubt 

 it sometimes presents a sui^erficial resemblance to H. strictum, 

 Fries, but then- physiological characters are widely different. 



