GAUYOPHYLLACEyE. 87 



Var. a, Smithii. 



C. latifolhini, Sin. Eiig. Bot. No. 473. 



C. alpiiinni, var. piloso-pubesceiis, £enth. Liud. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 51. 



Plant growing in loose tufts, with elongated flowering stems. 

 Leaves at the base of the stem not crowded, oblanceolate. Stem- 

 leaves elliptical or oval. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, with articulated 

 hairs and few or no gland-tipped ones. Stem with numerous 

 articulated hairs intermixed with short gland-tipped ones. Plant 



yellowish-green. 



Var. ^, compactum. 



0. latifolium, Auct. Scaiul. 



Plant densely tufted. Plowering stems very short. Leaves 

 at the base of the stem not crowded, oblanceolate. Stem-leaves 

 elliptical. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, and as well as the stem clothed 

 with articulated hairs and shorter gland-tipped ones. Plant light 



green 



Var. 7, nigrescens. 



C. nigrescens, Edmonston MSS. 



C. latifolium, Edmonston,.m Pliytologist, Ser. i. Vol. I. p. 498. 



C. latifolium, -var. Edmonstonii, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 37. 



" Plant growing in dense tufts." Lowest leaves crowded, 

 obovate ; stem-leaves roixndish or oval. Sepals broadly oval-ovate, 

 and as well as the stem clothed with gland-tipped hairs, but 

 without longer articulated ones. Plant deep green, often tinged 

 with brownish-purple. 



On rocks or mountains. Rare. Var. « on Snowdon, Carnar- 

 vonshire; Ben Lawers, Perthshire; Ben Lomond, Stirlingshire; 

 Ben Hope, Sutherlandshire, &c. Var. &, on the granitic mountains 

 on the confines of Aberdeenshire and Moray, Braemar. Var. 7, on 

 loose serpentine gravel near Baltasound, TJnst, Shetland. 



Eno-land, Scotland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. • 

 Var a very similar to C. alpinum, but growing in looser and 

 more strangling tufts from the barren stems being longer; it is 

 moreover,^ much greener plant, and the imbescence is shorter and 

 more rio-id The flowers are very simdar, and the upper and 

 secondary bracts are entirely (or almost entirely) herbaceous. The 

 seeds (as in var. and 7) about -h inch across, rugose, without 

 sharp-pointed tubercles, arid with the seed-coat fitting less closely 



^o the seed. , , 1 • 



Var 3 is much more densely tufted, the barren stems being very 



