120 hieracixjM. 



Kyloe Cottage. — And the same species I have picked on (Jolvend 

 rocks ill Galloway, where it is common ; and I have it also from 

 Yorkshire. 



353. H. STRiCTUM. Bab. Man. 1 98. = Narrow hairy Hawklung, 

 Petiv. Eng. PI. xiii. fig. 10. Plate III. fig. 2. — Stem erect, virgate, 

 hairy at least near the root, roughish, round, furrowed, copiously leafy. 

 Leaves alternate, sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, toothed about the middle, 

 the margin fringed with rigid hairs, and both surfaces are roughened 

 with similar hairs, which are longer and softer on the midrib. The hairs 

 have a hard bulbous base. The leaves become gradually smaller, and on 

 the upper part of the stem are lanceolate and somewhat clasping. 

 Flowers large, from .5 to 8 in number, on downy bracteated stalks 

 thickened at the top. Scales of the involucre dark green, the inner 

 lanceolate with rather pale margins, somewhat downy and hairy, but 

 without setae. — This diifers from H. sabaudunrin habit, and also in 

 colour, which is rather a light green. It is a more gracile and neater 

 plant, and much less branched above, so that the flowers do not exceed 

 eight or ten, and are not often above five. The fruit is roughened 

 with minute spinules. I have seen the plant in the stony bed of 

 Monnienut-burn at Godscroft, where it seemed to me very ornamental. 

 It grows also in boggy ground, such as occurs on the sides of lochs. 

 In such a habitat it is found near the Lees, and at Preston and Linton 

 loughs ; but in these habitats the plant has lost its gracefulness, and 

 the entire stem is covered with a soft hairiness. July, Aug. 



354. H. PRENANTHOiDES. Plate IV. fig. 1 . — This resembles H. 

 sabaudum in size and habit more than any other of our species, but 

 it is less shrubby, less branched above, with larger leaves, and herbage 

 of a lighter and pleasanter green. The stem is copiously leafy, round, 

 furrowed, hair}' and roughish, and, above where it begins to branch, 

 furnished with copious sharp hairs, rising from an enlarged black 

 base ; and on the downy flower-stalks these are intermingled with 

 numerous glandular setse. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, the lower- 

 most nearly 6 inches long and 1^ broad, somewhat toothed with 

 mucro-like denticles, " clasping the stem with their dilated rounded 

 base," hispid on both surfaces, and speckled with the little dark roots 

 of the pale sharp hairs : the small upper leaves are more toothed and 

 heartshaped below. Flowers " corpnbosely panicled," numerous 

 (from 12 to 20) ; and the scales of the involucre are unequal, very 

 dark green, and rough, with rigid hairs and an abundance of glandular 

 setse. — B. In Redpath dean near Earlston. — N. Chcsaot, on the 

 banks of the Common burn, G. R. Tate. Aug. 



355. H. UMBELLATUM. Plate IV. fig. 2. Watson's Cyb. Brit, 

 iii. 454. — The description of this species by Smith answers to our 

 plant very closely, nor can it be improved. It is an unattractive 

 plant, distinguished, in its genus, by its copiously leafy stem, and its 

 narrow linear or linear-lanceolate leaves. These are naked above, but 

 the inferior surface and margins are roughish, with very short spinu- 

 lose hairs. The flowers are only umbellate when the stalk has been 



