COMPOSITE. 207 



ones, frequently finely and very shortly ciliated on the margins. 

 Ligules glabrous, not ciliated at the apex. Styles livid. Achenes 

 chestnut. 



By the banks of streams in mountainous districts. Upper 

 Teesdale ; Clova ; banks of Clunie, at Castleton of Braemar ; 

 Kingussee, Inverness-shire ; banks of Loch Tay, Perthshire ; Glen 

 Arifif, county Antrim. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem stout, slightly flexuous, 1 to 4 feet high, generally reddish 

 below. Leaves resembling those of H. boreale, but the upper 

 ones decidedly clasping at the base, much more glabrous, slightly 

 glaucous beneath, with much shorter hairs on the veins and 

 margins, and with the ultimate veins more distinct. Peduncles 

 more densely clothed with stellate hairs, and with fewer bracts 

 which rarely become crowded, immediately below the anthodes 

 pass gradually into phyllaries as in H. boreale. Anthodes larger, 

 fewer, and in a more lax corymb, with the pedicels less upright ; 

 branches showing scarcely any disposition to a racemose arrangement 

 beneath the terminal corymb. Pericline broader at the base and 

 more conical after flowering ; phyllaries with paler edges and rather 

 more numerous hairs. Achenes paler. Pappus more tawny. 



There are none of the other preceding species with which it 

 can be confounded, but it certainly approaches very closely to the 



^ P ' Corymbose Saickiceed. 



SPECIES XXXIII.— H lERACIUM CROCATUM. Frks. 



Plate DCCCLYI. 



Bach. Mon. Hier. p. 74. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 207. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 231. Fries, Epic. p. 124. 

 " H. inuloides, TausclC Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 198. 



Stem very leafy, corymbosely or paniculato - corymbosely 

 branched at the apex, sub-glabrous, frequently clothed with soft 

 woolly hairs on the lower part and with a very little stellate 

 down in the upper, and rather densely stellately-downy on the 

 peduncles, but with few or no gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 

 distributed over the whole stem, the lower ones narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate, attenuated into indistinct winged petioles; intermediate 

 ones narrowly oblong-elliptical, rounded and semi-amplexicaul at 

 the base, very gradually attenuated towards the apex and sub- 

 acute; uppermost ones lanceolate, rounded and semi-amplexicaul 

 at the base, attenuated and acute at the apex ; all more or less ser- 

 rate-denticulate in the middle with the teeth remote and frequently 



