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was either //. caleuduVJIcrum qt H. exlmium (figured as H, vlllomm in 
Eng. Bot. 2379). The specimen above referred to is not marked 
*' Lochnagar " exclusively, as though that identical specimen had been 
found on that mountain, but "Lochnagar and other mountains," ma- 
king it highly probable that this specimen was one received from the 
Continent, and erroneously supposed by Don to be British, and iden- 
tical with the plant which he had collected on Lochnagar and other 
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Amongst the Hieracia of the collection of the late Mr. W. Eobert- 
son, of Neweastle-on-Tyne, which are now deposited in the Newcastle 
Museum, there is a good specimen of what is unquestionably the true 
plant, and it is marked, in a handwriting which I believe to be that of 
Druramond, "^, villosum, rods near Loch Callater, north of Clova." 
As the following notes of character, which I took from this specimen, will 
show, the plant may be readily distinguished from any of the admitted 
British species. Stem about a foot and a half high, densely hairy 
throughout, with long flexuose silky hairs ; leaves not forming a defi- 
nite rosette when the plant is in flower, but two from near the base 
oblanceolate, with a long haft, and five more below the lowest branch, 
the three upper of which are ovate-acute, and clasp the stem slightly, 
all densely hairy, and ciliated with long hairs like those of the stem, 
furnished with only one or two blunt or sharpish teeth on each side. 
Stem branched from the middle. The branches three in number, and 
only single-headed; their bracts large and leaf-like, and the main pe- 
duncle furnished with three broad shaggy ovate bracts in addition. 
Heads large and showy, ultimately ventricose ; the peduncle and invo- 
lucre densely villose, the latter slightly floccose, but not at all setose. 
The phyllaries numerous and unequal, a few of the outer ones rather 
loose and bluntish, but the inner ones all acuminate. It has a more 
leafy stem than any of our Cerinthoidea, combined with glabrous li- 
gule, and as shaggy an involucre as any of the Alpiua. The Continen- 
tal distribution, however, does not seem to lend countenance to the 
idea of the plant being really British. It is not a Scandinavian spe- 
cies; in Prance is confined to the south-east, and absent from the 
Pyrenees, and noiie of the other members of the same group come any 
nearer to us. 
The same series includes specimens from Drummond of argenteiinty 
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