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Cove, Settle, Mr. Caley.^' I presume " Dr. Smith " to intend the au- 

 thor of the ' British Flora ; ' yet, in ' English Flora,' Smith gives no 

 habitat on his own authority. In the New Guide, published in 1835, 

 the localities are reprinted from Turner and Dillwyn's work, with an 

 addition of " Rocks in Gordale," copied from MSS. lent to me by the 

 late Mr. Winch, and in which that locality is inserted on the autho- 

 rity of Mr. Windsor. Mr. Gibson is therefore not quite accurate in 

 saying that I refer the " plant " to Hypochceris maculata : my only 

 participation in the matter was that of printing the localities expressly 

 on the authority of other persons. 



It was not until the winter of 1840-41, that I saw a specimen under 

 the name of Hypochceris maculata, from the neighbourhood of Settle. 

 In that winter Mr. Tatham sent specimens to the Botanical Society 

 of London, so labelled : — an error that any one might have fallen 

 into under the circumstances. Before those specimens were distri- 

 buted by the Botanical Society, the labels were altered to " Hieraci- 

 um pulmonarium," and probably with a note of interrogation after the 

 specific name ; some doubt, I recollect, being felt, as to whether that 

 name or H. maculatum (of Smith) should be given to the specimens 

 in question. 



Several years ago the late Mr. J. E. Bowman communicated speci- 

 mens to my herbarium, under the name of" H. murorum," — ^and that 

 I still consider to be the proper specific name of this spotted Hiera- 

 cium. Mr. Bowman had collected the specimens about Castle Dinas 

 Bran, near Llangollin, in North Wales ; and I also gathered the plant 

 in the same locality, in 1832. Early in that year, I found a few very 

 young plants of it, by the falls of the Ogwen, in Caernarvonshire ; a 

 locality for H. pictum, according to Mr. C. C. Babington, in the New 

 Guide. 



In 1836, Mr. James Ward gave me specimens collected near West 

 Burton, in Bishopdale, Yorkshire ; and which were labelled " Hiera- 

 cium pulmonarium," and the locality published under that name, in 

 the Supplement to the New Guide. There were likewise examples 

 of the same plant among Mr. Gardiner's collections for the Botanical 

 Society, in 1 840 ; and these also were labelled " H. pulmonarium, 

 Sm.^'' and distributed to various members of the Society. Lastly, I 

 have collected this plant on the mountains of Forfar, Aberdeen, In- 

 verness, and probably Perth shires. The Scottish specimens have 

 usually two or three leaves on the stem, those of Wales and England 

 one or none. The heads of flowers vary from one to three. 



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