168 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



strapsliaped or strapshaped - oblanceolate, often bract-like ; all 

 clothed on both sides with long soft white hairs. Anthode gene- 

 rally solitary in the wild plant, more rarely 2 or 3 in a corymb. 

 Pericline rounded at the base. Phyllaries acute, dark-olive, shaggy, 

 with rather long and stiff white hairs with black bases ; the outer 

 ones lax. Elorets hairy externally and at the tips.* Styles livid. 

 Plant green. 



In mountains at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. I have 

 gathered it only on Loch-na-gar, Aberdeenshire, but Mr. Backhouse 

 states that it is also found in the region between Loch-na-gar and 

 the northern part of the Clova district, Corrie of Clova, and damp 

 micacious ravine above the Spital of Glen Shee, Porfarshire ; 

 apparently most partial to granitic soils. 



Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



E-oot-leaves numerous, persistent, narrowed into indistinct 

 broadly- winged petioles ; the outer ones obtuse ; the inner sub- 

 acute, all more or less strongly toothed, especially towards the base ; 

 the teeth remote, often longer than broad, spreading ; apical half 

 of the leaf generally nearly entire. Anthodes frequently 2 or 3 

 inches across. Pericline f inch long. Plorets bright-yellow. 



Ilarygold-floioei^ed Hawktoeed. 



SPECIES lY— HIE R A CIUM EXIMIUM. Bach 



Plate DCCCXXV. 



Bach Mod. Hier. p. 20. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 200. 

 H. eximium, var. o, Hooh & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 219. 



Stem simple, or slightly branched at the apex, sparingly clothed 

 with stellate down and simple black-based hairs, densely so in the 

 upper part, where there are also a few short black gland-tipped 

 hairs. Hadical leaves elliptical or strapshaped-oblanceolate, very 

 gradually attenuated into the petiole, rather acute, remotely 

 denticulate or dentate-serrate or inciso-serrate or nearly entire; 

 stem-leaves few, often only 1 above the middle of the stem, small, 

 sessile, strapshaped ; all clothed on both sides with long rather 

 soft white hairs. Anthodes generally solitary in the wild plant, 

 more rarely 2 to 4 in a corymb. Pericline ovoid, rounded or sub- 



* In tliis genus it is necessary to examine the buds before expansion, as the hairs 

 at the apex of the ligules are deciduous. 



