202 45. COMPOSITE. 



14. H. iricum (Fr.) ; glaucous green, st.-l. ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate acute with short shaggy winged petioles, st. leafy 

 corymbose at top, st.-l. clasping broadly ovate taper-pointed 

 denticulate or dentate lower ones narrowed below, ped. and inv. 

 hairy setose floccose, inv. truncate below, phyll. blunt, styles 

 livid. H. Lapeyrousii Bab., E. B. S. 2906. 13 ft. high, very 

 leafy, rigid, not branching, 1 -headed on barren soil. Ped. rigid, 

 diverging. Original rt.-l. blunt. L. often purplish at the end. 

 St.-l. decreasing successively, upper 1. broad and rounded below. 

 Phyll. broad, narrowed upwards. Chiefly in mountain districts. 

 Braemar. Teesdale. Cunnamara ; Garron Head ; Bantry Bay ; 

 Castle Taylor, Galway. P. VII. VIII. 



*** Pallidiformes. Inv. more or less hairy. Phyll. ad- 

 pressed. Fits, hairless externally, nearly or quite glabrous 

 at the tips. 



t Styles yellow, rarely with minute fuscous hairs. 



15. H. pallidum (Fr.) ; glaucous, rt.-l. ovate-lanceolate acute 

 apiculate-dentate or dentate below with slender petioles, st. few- 

 headed with about 1 sessile or stalked L, inv. ovate below ventri- 

 cose constricted above floccose slightly hairy and setose, phyll. 

 acute or cuspidate, styles yellow. H. Halleri Hook. 6 18 in. 

 high. Rhizome elongate, prostrate. L. fringed with long hairs 

 which sometimes spread over the surfaces, obscurely floccose 

 beneath. St.-l. nearly or quite sessile, if more than 1 then the 

 lower is stalked. Original rt.-l. rounded at both ends. Fits. 

 very slightly pilose at the tips, bright yellow. Mountains. P. 

 VI. VII. and IX. E. S. 



16. H. lasiophyllum (Koch) ; ash-coloured or glaucous, rt.-l. 

 oval or ovate-lanceolate rounded at both ends entire or denticu- 

 late, petioles shaggy, st.-l. or 1, st. few-headed with straight- 

 based ped., inv. rounded below floccose setose slightly hairy, 

 phyll. acuminate or cuspidate, styles yellow. H. cinerascens 

 Jord., Gren. ! H. pallidum var. crinioerum Fr. ! 8 20 in. high. 

 Very hairy. Branches slender, long. Young heads roundish. 

 Outer phyll. sometimes bluntish. Fits, bright yellow. L. ro- 

 sulate, persistent, broad, apiculate, usually with many scattered 

 bulbous hairs on each side. Original 1. roundish. St.-l. rare, 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends. Mountains. Grampians. Snow- 

 donia. Craig Breidden. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



17- H. Gibsoni (Backh.) ; 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 



