250 45. 







Vulgata. Plant green or glaucous with soft simple eglandular 

 hairs. St. few or many- leaved. Phyll. ii regularly im- 

 bricated ; with short hairs and floccose down, with or 

 without setae. Styles yellow-livid or dusky. Fl. glabrous 

 or sub-ciliate. 



* Scapigera. St. scapiform, bare, or 1 2-leaved. 



50. H. stenolepis (Lindeb.) ; st. 6 14 in. high simple or 

 branched furrowed almost glabrous hairy towards the base, ped. 

 long ascending bracteate setose densely floccose hardly hairy, 

 rt.-l. csesius-green purpled beneath, ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 obtuse, or lanceolate acute or acuminate unequally broadly 

 based sometimes truncate or cuneate or cordate almost entire 

 towards the apex, irregularly and deeply dentate the teeth 

 descending into the long floccose very hairy petioles, glabrous 

 above somewhat floccose beneath, st.-l. 1 linear or lanceolate 

 acute long-stalked entire or sharply dentate. Heads small 

 1 5, inv. sub-truncate floccose setose hairy, phyll. long narrow 

 acute dark green, inner paler. Fl. bright yellow pilose externally, 

 sub-ciliate at the tips, styles yellow or very slightly livid. 

 Exsicc. Fasc. vi. 136. #. anguinum (W. R. Linton) ; rt.-l. 

 rosulate nearly erect ovate-oblong denticulate or almost entire 

 with few large teeth, subglabrous, inv. darker less hairy setose 

 and floccose than type, long snake-like in bud, styles livid. 

 Exsicc. Fasc. i. 15. Mountains and cliffs. j3. High hills above 

 Moffat, Scotland. P. VI. VII. E.S.I. 



51. H. hypochceroiides (Gibs.) ; glaucous green, rt.-l. ovate 

 blunt apiculate rather truncate or cordate below denticulate, 

 petioles slender, st. leafless rigid simple or forked with straight- 

 based ped., inv. truncate below floccose hairy setose, phyll. broad 

 and blunt incumbent, styles yellow. Sy. E. B. 842 ; Exsicc. 

 Fasc. ii. 35 ; H. Gibsoni Backh. St. 618 in. high. FL bright 

 yellow. Phyll. not cuspidate. L. rosulate, persistent, very 

 'broad, blotched with purple above. /3. sa.rojwn (F. J. Hanb.) ; 

 rt.-l. narrower more acute paler green purpled when young 

 losing this when older, ped. longer less straight and rigid, 

 phyU. porrect in bud, more acute darker less white-margined. 

 y. Cyathis (Ley.) ; rt.-l. green or slightly blotched, original 

 obovate retuse at the tip decurrent into broadly winged hairy 

 petioles hairy beneath and on the margins, inner long oval or 

 narrow elliptic acute often toothed, bud very short forming from 

 the first an open cup, phyll. recurved in bud, outer lax. Exsicc. 

 Fasc. v. 109. Mountains, a. England ; Wales ; Ireland. 0. Bed 

 sandstone rocks, Breconshire, Montgomeryshire, y. Lime- 

 stone rocks near Merthyr Tydfil, Breconshire. P. VII, VIII. 



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