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scattered hairs on both surfaces, very metallic-looking, st.-l. 

 usually 2 linear lanceolate, entire or with few small teeth to- 

 wards the base, inv. rounded to cam panulate rather shaggy with 

 white black-based hairs, phyll. dark green outer narrow some- 

 what lax unequal in length tips recurved slightly white in bud. 

 Styles very dark. Ben-na-muic-dhui. P. VII. VIII. S. 



11. H. glob6sum (Backh.) ; glaucous or green, st. few-headed 

 floccose, rt.-l. obovate or ovate-lanceolate subacute glabrous 

 above entire or dentate narrowed into petioles, inv. rounded be- 

 low ultimately globose greenish-black with short black-based 

 hairs, phyll. many attenuate acute adpressed, styles yellow. Sy. 

 E. B. 829 ; Mon. Brit. Hierac. PI. 11 ; Exsicc. Fasc. iii. 54. 

 Stem 6 12 in. high, usually 1 -headed, rarely branching even 

 from near the base, leafless or with few narrow bract-like 1. 

 Original 1. blunt. Innermost 1. sometimes acute. Petioles 

 short sometimes slightly winged. Buds globose. Fl. bright 

 yellow. Cairngorm Mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



#* Nigricantes. Inv. villose or hairy. Phyll. adpressed or 

 few outermost lax. Fl. nearly hairless externally, 

 minutely pilose or subglabrous at the tips. H. niyrescem 

 Hook. 



12. H. nigres'cens (Willd.) ; green, st. 4 6 in. high 1 2- 

 headed floccose setose with few white hairs towards the base, 

 rt.-l. ovate inner longer lanceolate finely toothed hairy on both 

 surfaces, st.-l. usually 1 lanceolate finely toothed or bract-like " 

 entire sessile floccose with scattered hairs, inv. dark, phyll. sub- 

 acute outer rather lax very setose slightly floccose not hairy. 

 Fl. golden yellow glabrous. Styles dark. /3. commutatum 

 (Lindeb.); st. 6 10 in. high, 1 3 large heads, hairy through- 

 cut, 1. larger broader more deeply toothed floccose and hairy 

 beneath, phyll. longer more attenuate acute hairy with few setce. 

 Fl. faintly pilose. y. gracilifolium (F. J. Hanb.) ; I. much 

 longer narrower very acutely toothed especially towards the base 

 decurrent into slightly winged petiole, inv. setose not hairy 

 slightly floccose. Styles not so dark. Exsicc. Fasc. iv. 78. 

 a. Breadalbane Mountains. /3. Cairn Toul. y. Ben Lawers. 

 P. VII. VIII. S. 



13. H. atrdtum (Fr.) /. ; st. 6 12 in. high simple or branched 

 floccose with few white hairs below setose above, rt.-l. primary 

 subrotund almost entire, inner ovate to ovate-lanceolate dentate 

 somewhat hairy on both surfaces all on long hairy petioles, st.-l. 

 usually 1 large lanceolate acute petiolate sharply toothed at the 



