180 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



sessile, or rarely amplexicaul ; bracts at the base of the peduncles 

 of the corymb strap-shaped or linear. Anthodes large, generally 

 2 or 3 in a terminal corymb. Pericline hemispherical at the base ; 

 phyllaries numerous, acuminate, adpressed, olive or nearly black, 

 thickly clothed all over with short black gland - tipped hairs, 

 generally intermixed with longer simple black-based hairs. Florets 

 glabrous, except at the tips, where they are shortly ciliated. Styles 

 livid. Plant glaucous. 



Yar. a, genuinum. 



Plate DCCCXXXVL 

 H. cerinthoides, /3, Bach. 1. c. 



Eadical leaves oval or elliptical, long-stalked, denticulate or 

 nearly entire ; stem-leaf or leaves scarcely amplexicaul. 



Var. ^, decipiens. 

 Plate DCCCXXXVII. 



H. cerinthoides, var. a, Back. 1. c. 



H. Anglicum, var. amplexicaule, Back, in Ba^. Man. ed. v. I. c. 



Radical leaves oval or elliptical, long- stalked, denticulate, or 

 nearly entire ; stem - leaf or leaves with the base decidedly 

 amplexicaul. 



Var. 7, acutifolkim. Back. 



Radical leaves serrate- dentate, narrower, more oblong, more 

 acute, and more shortly stalked, than in the other two varieties. 



By the sides of streams and cliffs in mountainous districts. 

 Var. a not uncommon on basalt and mica-slate, in Teesdale and in 

 the Lake district ; Connemara ; Cave Hill, Belfast ; and frequent 

 in the Scottish Highlands. Var. 3 rather rare ; Benbulben, Sligo ; 

 and the Scotch Highlands. Var. y rare ; Cairntowl and Castleton 

 of Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Glenlochy Mountains, Perthshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstock slightly woolly at the neck. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, 

 erect, rather stiif, generally with 1 or 2 leaves. Radical leaves with 

 the petioles usually about as long as the lamina and narrowly 

 winged and usually very woolly ; lamina 1 to 4 inches long, varying 

 in breadth, usually broadest about the middle, but sometimes 

 with the broadest part nearer the base, frequently acuminate 

 both at the base and apex ; lower stem - leaves resembling the 

 root-leaves, but rather smaller, attenuated at the base, and fre- 

 quently more or less distinctly stalked in var. a : dilated and semi- 



