258 45. COMPOSITE. 



petiolate very deeply irregularly toothed hairy slightly floccose 

 beneath. Heads 1 3, inv. broad-based, phyll. outer lax, inner 

 long attenuate, somewhat floccose-margined. Fl. golden yellow 

 pilose-tipped, styles very livid. Exsicc. Fasc. iv. 94. /3. poll- 

 cenum (Dahlst.) ; 1. broader less sharply toothed, ped. only floccose, 

 heads numerous, inv. very floccose with fine hairs and few 

 minute yellow-headed setae, tips of phyll. purple-brown. y. 

 porrigens (Almq.) ; st.-l. more numerous broadly lanceolate 

 petiolate upper sessile, all with rather coarse teeth in the lower 

 half, ped. densely floccose and setose, phyll. floccose-margined, 

 not hairy but with many long minute yellow-headed setae. 

 Mountain glens, a. Frequent in the Bread albanes. /S.Caithness, 

 Inverness, y. Nr. Watersmeet, Countisbury, N. Devon. P. VII. 

 VIII. E. S. 



71. H. vulgdtum (Fr.) ; green or glaucous, 1. oblong or 

 lanceolate often with patent or forward teeth on lower half, 

 rt.-l. narrowed into petiole, st.-l. often many all or uppermost 

 sessile, head panicled or subcorymbose, "inv. and straight 

 ascending peds. floccose setose with few hairs, phyll. equally 

 attenuate acutish incumbent, styles livid. Exsicc. Fasc, i. 40 ; 

 H. sylvaticum, Sm. E. B. 2031. Very variable, 1 3 ft. high. 

 The more common plant has panicled' heads cylindrical when 

 young, glaucescent 1. purplish beneath, persistent rt.-l. lew 

 st.-l. , greenish inv. ; but sometimes the st. is very leafy, heads 

 panicled, rt.-l. evanescent. /3. maculatum (Sm.) ; has few broad 

 purpled-ba.sed st.-l., and imperfectly corymbose heads. The 

 spots on the 1. are not constant ; in shade they are absent. 

 Exsicc. Fasc. iii. 68 ; Sy. E. B. 849. y. dadalolepium (Dahlst.) ; 

 st.-l. 2 3 lower slightly petiolate, heads numerous small 

 narrow, phyll. narrow equally broad with few tine small hairs 

 small setae and scarcely floccose. Exsicc. Fasc. v. 115. 



d. cacuminum (Ley) ; upper st.-l. long large Ungulate, nearly 

 glabrous entire or with shallow irregular teeth, ped. bracteate, 

 phyll. broad obtuse, styles pure yelloic. Exsicc. Fasc. v. 110. 



e. sejunctum (W. K. Linton) ; st.-l. 2 4 rarefy 9, yellowish- 

 green, hairy above floccose beneath, flrm sharply dentate with 

 several large cusped teeth, heads 4 12 sub-umbellate, floccose 

 hairy thinly setose, fl. glabrous-tipped, styles livid. Exsicc. 

 Fasc. vi. 26. Many other forms are named but the} r defy 

 definition. Woods, banks, walls. 8. Teesdale, North Wales. 

 . Scotland. P. VI. IX. E. S. I. 



72. H. surreidnum (F. J. Hanb.) ; st. 12 ft. high, usually 

 simple, hairy below, ped. usually straight ascending floccose 

 "with fine hairs not setose, rt.-l. not persistent elliptic almost 

 entire, st.-l. 35 lower ovate decurrent into shaggy petiole 



