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sometimes a few short black gland-tipped hairs. Eadical leaves 

 obovate-spathulate, abruptly attenuated into the petiole, obtuse ; 

 inner ones narrower and more acute ; all generally slightly dentate 

 or serrate - dentate, with a few projecting teeth, sub-glabrous 

 above, sparingly clothed with long woolly hairs beneath and on 

 the margins ; stem-leaves 1 or 2 (rarely 3) ; the lower one rather 

 large, strapshaped-oblanceolate, sub-petiolate ; the upper one 

 small, strapshaped, sessile, frequently absent. Anthodes solitary, 

 both in the wild and cultivated state. Pericline hemispherical, 

 rounded at the base. Phyllaries all rather lax, broad, acute (a few 

 of the outer ones sometimes obtuse), nearly black, very densely 

 clothed with short silky-woolly black-based and black hairs, in- 

 terspersed with a few short black gland-tipped hairs. Plorets 

 hairy externally and at the tips ; the hairs at the tips short. 

 Styles bright-yellow. 



Var. a, genuinum. 



Radical leaves ovate-spathulate. 



Var. 3, insigne. 



" Radical leaves lanceolate, with a few large teeth." — 

 {Bab. Man,) 



On mountains, at an elevation of 3,000 or 4,000 feet. I have 

 collected it only on Loch-na-gar, and at the head of Glen Callater ; 

 but, according to Mr. Backhouse, it also occurs at Corrie of Ben- 

 na-bourd, Braeriach, Cairntowl, Bavine of the Garachary, and 

 Little Craigindal, Aberdeenshire, on granite ; Glen Dole, Clova 

 Mountains, Forfarshire, on mica-slate. 



Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem 3 to 10 inches high, much more densely clothed with 

 stellate down than any of the preceding, with the simple black- 

 based hairs rather short and few. Mr. Backhouse says " nearly or 

 quite destitute of setse " (gland-tipped hairs) ; but several speci- 

 mens in my own herbarium, named H. alpinum by Mr. Backhouse, 

 have the stem thickly clothed with them. Leaves more suddenly 

 attenuated into a petiole than in the three preceding, and not hairy 

 on the upper side ; the outer ones, as in the whole of this group, 

 broader than the others ; so that the more leaves the plant pro- 

 duces in the rosette, the narrower the innermost ones become. 

 Pericline ^ inch or more long, much blacker and more satiny than 

 in the three preceding, in this, and in the shape of the leaves, show- 

 ing an evident approach to the next three species, as well as by the 



