262 45. COMPOSITE 



size, almost bract-like at the apex of st., styles somewhat dusky. 

 Heathy or grassy places in subalpine districts, a, England ; 

 Scotland. 0. Scotland, y. Ireland. 8. Scotland. P. VII. IX. 



E. S. I. 



81. H. sparsifolium (Lindeb.) ; st. | 2 ft, high, simple or 

 branched erect hairy below, ped. long spreading floccose, rt.-l. 

 small spathulate not persistent, st-1. many deeply blotched with 

 brownish-purple pale green beneath, nearly entire or denticulate 

 in the middle, glabrous above somewhat floccose beneath, lower 

 ovate entire decurrent into winged petioles, upper long- narrow 

 acute with somewhat clasping base, uppermost linear. Heads 

 few, inv. large broad dark with long white hairs and minute 

 setae, phyll. imbricated with recurved tips and curved margins, 

 outer small lax obtuse, inner pale narrower more acute. Fl. 

 bright yellow, almost glabrous, styles pure yellow. The 1. of 

 the Welsh specimens are always more toothed, broader and 

 blunter, and the inv. less clothed than in those from Scotland. 

 Evsicc. Fasc. i. 24. Cliffs and sides of streams in subalpine 

 districts. P. VII. VIII. E. S.I. 



82. H. ria'idum (Hartm.) ft. pullatum (Dahlst.) ; st. 12^ 

 feet high, simple or branched hairy floccose, ped. spreading 

 bracteate, 1. ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate apiculate lower almost 

 entire, denticulate or coarsely toothed in the middle, almost 

 glabrous above, hairy beneath purpled. Heads 1 or many, 

 o liter phyll. lax short, inner paler su bobtuse, very sparingly clothed 

 with few hairs and scattered yellow setae, styles livid. Exsicc. 

 Fasc. v. 118. y. acrifolium (Dahlst.) ; 1. long narrow mostly 

 coarsely toothed below the middle, inv. minutely setose with 

 few hairs very slightly floccose at the base, styles yellow. 

 Exsicc. Fasc. iii. 71. 5. Friesii (Hartm.) ; ped. long straight 

 densely Jloccose, 1. denticulate with fine sharp teeth, almost 

 glabrous above hairy and ftoccose beneath, inv, broad unequally 

 based, with few hairs and slightly floccose, outer phylL short 

 dark subobtuse, inner paler more attenuate glabrous. e. tri- 

 dent atum (Fr.) ; 1. sessile or sub-petiolate upper only bractlike 

 hairy below notfloccose dentate in the middle, ped. slender hairy 



floccose^ inv. truncate below, constricted after flowering, phyll-. 

 pale-margined, hairy hardly floccose, styles livid. f. nidense 

 (F. J. Hanb.) : 1. very numerous, upper sessile rounded at the 

 base, lower long-petioled decurrent to the stem acutely pointed 

 with long acuminate teeth, buds cylindric, styles somewhat 

 darkened. Exsicc. Fasc. v. 119. Other vars. or forms have 

 bean described. Mountain glens and banks of streams. P. VII. 

 IX. E. S. 



