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specimens named H. caesium by Mr. Backhouse which I have seen, 

 have no stellate down. 



Stellately-doicny JELawkweed. 



SPECIES XXVL— HIE RACIUM M ACUL ATUM. Em. , 



Plate DCCCXLIX. 



Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2121 ; Brit. El. Yol. III. p. 360. 

 H. vulgatum, var. nemorosum, Back. Mon. Hier. p. 63 ! 

 « H. inquinatum, Jord'' C. H. SchuUz, MS. 



Stem scape-like or sparingly leafy, corymbosely branched at 

 the apex, sparingly clothed with stellate down and a few simple 

 white hairs, the upper part densely stellately-downy with a few 

 black gland-tipped hairs. Primary radical leaves broadly oval- 

 spathulate, abruptly attenuated into short winged slightly-woolly 

 petioles, obtuse, entire or denticulate ; the later ones oval- 

 elliptical or elliptical-ovate, rather abruptly attenuated into long 

 woolly petioles, subacute, denticulate, or strongly serrate- dentate, 

 sometimes with a few long teeth in the basal half curving for- 

 ward, sub-coriaceous, sparingly clothed above and on the margins 

 with coarse bulbous-based hairs and occasionally a few stellate 

 hairs, beneath with slender soft hairs and a very little down ; stem- 

 leaves 1 to 4, the lowest one resembling the radical leaves, but 

 smaller, with a shorter petiole and more acute, the upper ones 

 smaller and sub-sessile, the uppermost sessile. Anthodes rather 

 small, usually numerous, in a lax corymb, with the peduncles short, 

 ascending-spreading, usually nearly straight. Pericline ovoid at 

 the base, conical - oblong - cylindrical after flowering ; phyllaries 

 numerous, subacute, olive with pale edges, clothed with stellate 

 down, especially on the margins, and numerous short black gland- 

 tipped hairs. Plorets sub - glabrous, not ciliated. Styles livid- 

 yellow. Plant dark-green, with the leaves always blotched with 

 purplish-black. 



On old walls and dry banks, but very doubtfully native. There 

 are only cultivated specimens in Smith's Herbarium from 

 Mr. Crowe's garden, the original root of which was said to be 

 brought from Westmoreland, and he states that the plant is 

 naturalized about Norwich. I have gathered it at Sydenham and 

 on the bank surrounding a small garden on Wimbledon Common. 

 I have received it from Plymouth, collected by Mr Briggs, and 

 from Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, by Mr. T. Kirk : there are 



