190 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



near the base. Anthodes rather small, 3 to 17, in an umbellate 

 corymb with the peduncles erect. Pericline ovate at the base ; 

 phyllaries few, obtuse, olive-green, rather sparingly clothed with 

 stellate down, intermixed with a few short black simple and 

 gland-tipped hairs. Plorets glabrous. Styles yellow. Plant dull- 

 green. 



Margins of alpine streamlets at an elevation of 2,500 to 

 3,000 feet. Bare. Cairntowl, Little Craigindal, and cliffs above 

 the Dhuloch, Braemar. 



Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem 12 to 20 inches high, rather rigid, terminated by a 

 number of elongated peduncles springing from nearly the same 

 point, so that the anthodes are su])-umbellate and closely packed 

 together, which is the chief point of difference between this species 

 and H. murorum, although the papillae on the style are usually 

 yellow, while in H. murorum they are dark, so as to give the style 

 a livid appearance ; but Mr. Backhouse says that the styles even 

 in H. aggregatum are sometimes clothed with a few minute 

 darker hairs. I have never gathered it. 



According to Mr. Backhouse, Dr. Grenier refers H. aggregatum 

 to H. bifidum {Kitaihel), a species which I have not seen, and the 

 descriptions of it do not mention the peculiar umbellate arrange- 

 ment of the anthodes. 



Compact Saickioeed. 



SPECIES XXIII.— H lERACIUM MURORUM. Fries. 



Plate DCCCXLYI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDXIX. MDXX. 



Back Mon. Hier. p. 54. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 205. Hooh. k Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 226. 

 "H. murorum, ft sylvaticum, Linn.'' {Fries, Epic. p. 91). 



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

 glabrous below or sparingly clothed with stellate down and white 

 simple soft woolly hairs, the upper part more densely so, and, as 

 well as the peduncles, with numerous rather long scattered black 

 gland-tipped hairs. Badical leaves rather thin, oval or ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, usually truncate or sub-cordate at the base, not 

 attenuated into the moderately long woolly petioles, obtuse or 

 acute, denticulate or more or less strongly toothed, often with 

 sharp spreading or runcinate teeth towards the base, with soft 

 hairs on both sides, or glabrous above, destitute of stellate down ; 

 stem usually with only 1 leaf, more rarely with 2, 3, or more, 



