188 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



on the under side and margins ; stem-leaves 1 to 3, the lowest 

 ones sessile and semi-amplexicaul, or subsessile, elliptical-strap- 

 shaped, the upper ones usually bract-like. Anthodes rather 

 large, 2 to 4, in a corymb, or more when the stem is branched 

 from near the base. Pericline at length truncate below ; phyl- 

 laries rather numerous, rather broad, subacute, or the outer ones 

 obtuse, dark-olive, very sparingly clothed with stellate down, espe- 

 cially towards the margins, and with a few simple white or black- 

 based hairs and short black gland-tipped hairs. Elorets glabrous, 

 not ciliated. Styles yellow. Plant intensely glaucous. 



In mountainous districts. At the foot of Snowden, North 

 Wales ; Melbreak, near Crummock Water, and Great End, Cum- 

 berland ; Clova District ; Castleton of Braemar, and Craig Dhu- 

 loch, Aberdeen ; Isle of Harris, in the Hebrides. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Kadical leaves, or at least the inner 

 ones, very long and narrow. Peduncles elongated, rigid. Buds 

 cylindrical, with the ends of the phyllaries reflexed. This plant I 

 have never gathered, and have seen but a single British specimen, 

 which was collected in Glen Dole, Clova, by Dr. George Lawson. 



Silvery Hawkiceed. 



SPECIES XXL— HIE R ACTUM NITIDUM. Back 



Plate DCCCXLIV. 



Bach. Mod. Hier. p. 50. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 204. Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 225. 

 H. pallidum, persicifolium, Fries, Epic. p. 84. 



Stem scape-like, corymbosely branched at the apex, wiry, 

 glabrous, the upper part and peduncles with stellate down and 

 gland-tipped hairs, and a few white simple hairs. Badical leaves 

 elliptical or narrowly elliptical, gradually contracted into rather 

 short slightly-winged and slightly-woolly petioles, very coarsely 

 toothed in the lower half, acute or subacute, glabrous above, 

 sparingly clothed with rather soft woolly hairs on the under 

 side and margins ; stem with a single leaf, sub-petiolate when 

 near the bottom of the stem, sessile when near the middle, 

 narrower than the root-leaves, very acute, and coarsely dentate. 

 Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 5, in a corymb, or more when 

 the stem is branched from below the corymb. Pericline hemi- 



