178 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



A very distinct species, with a peculiar rigid habit. Stems 

 8 to 24 inches high. Leaves elongate, with harsh bulbous-based 

 hairs on the upper surface ; petioles very short and indistinct ; 

 stem-leaves large in proportion. Phyllaries rather broad at the 

 base, but tapering gradually to the apex, not at all silky, the points 

 projecting beyond the florets in bud. 



Mr. H. C. Watson possesses a form with the leaves sub- 

 glabrous. 



lAngulate-leaved Hawkweed. 



Group B.— AMPLEXICAULIA. 



Plant yellowish-green, rarely glaucous, viscid-glandulose ; hairs 

 on the stem and leaves gland-tipped. Neck of the root-stalk clothed 

 with fibres. Radical leaves in a rosette, persistent until after 

 flowering ; stem with few or rather few large leaves. Phyllaries 

 acuminated, with glandular hairs. Plorets ciliated. Achenes large, 

 brownish-black. 



SPECIES XIIL— HIE R AC I UM AMPLEXIC AULE. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXXXV. 



Reich. Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MD. 

 Hook & Am. Brit. El. ed. viii. p. 222. 



Stem paniculately and corymbosely branched at the apex, clothed 

 with short yellowish gland-tipped hairs. P^adical leaves oblanceolate 

 or oblong-oblanceolate, gradually contracted into short petioles, 

 sub-obtuse, remotely dentate or serrate-dentate, clothed with 

 short gland-tipped hairs above and beneath ; stem-leaves 1 to 6, 

 large, the lower ones oblanceolate or oblong ; upper leaves and 

 bracts at the base of the corymbs broadly ovate, acuminate ; all 

 amplexicaul, with large rounded auricles. Anthodes numerous, 

 in corymbs at the extremity of the stem and branches. Pericline 

 ovate at the base. Phyllaries numerous, acuminate, rather lax, 

 green, thickly clothed with gland - tipped hairs. Plorets sub- 

 glabrous, ciliated at the apex. Styles yellow. 



Naturalized on the walls of Magdalen College, Oxford, and on 

 the walls of Cleish Castle, Kinross ; also said to have been found 

 on a rock called the Garrie Barns, Clova, Porfarshire, by G. Don ; 

 but no one else has been able to detect its presence there, and 

 Dr. Walker- Arnott says the specimen in his herbarium, labelled 

 by Don himself, is evidently a cultivated one. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Late Summer. 



