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ends or cordate below denticulate or entire." Woods and rocks. 

 |3. Canlochen, Forfarshire. P. VI. VII. 



22. H. ccesium (Fr.) ; csesious or dull green, rt.-l. ovate or 

 lanceolate rounded or narrowed below irregularly dentate- serrate 

 with patent or ascending teeth, petioles slender, st.-l. or 1 

 placed low, st. few-headed with straight-based ped., inv. rounded 

 below floccose hairy slightly setose, phyll. bluntish inner ones 

 acute incumbent, styles slightly livid. H. murorum Sm., E. B. 

 2082. 12 18 in. high. Young heads roundish. Fits, bright J 

 yellow. Phyll. not cuspidate ; inner very slender, pointed. Root- 

 stock long. L. nearly glabrous above, coriaceous, not fringed 

 with coarse hairs ; innermost acute. St.-l. not stalked, nar- 

 rowed below. H. obtusifolium (Backh.) ; yellowish- green, origi- 

 nal rt.-l. ovate rounded at both ends entire, petioles densely 

 villose, st.-l. 1 stalked ovate-lanceolate, inv. ventricose becoming 

 truncate below, phyll. acuminate, buds pilose at the tip ; is pro- 

 bably a variety, and is found at Clova. Mountains. P. VII. 

 VIII. t 



23. H. sfelligerum (Froel.) ; ashy-green, rt.-l. ovate or oval 

 blunt or acutish with small teeth below floccose on both sides 

 narrowed into long petioles, st.-l. few large ^-clasping, st. sub- 

 corymbose floccose throughout, ped. straight-based, inv. ovate 

 below floccose setose hairy, phyll. acuminate incumbent, styles 

 rather livid. H 2 ft. high. Fits, bright yellow. L. rosulate, 

 persistent ; original spathulate ; innermost acutish. Petioles 

 rather slender and woolly. St.-l. stalked ; uppermost sessile. 

 Alpine streams on Grampian Mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



24. H. vulgatum (Fr.) ; green or glaucous, 1. oblong or lan- 

 ceolate often with patent or forward teeth on lower half, rt.-l. 

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

 heads panicled or subcorymbose, inv. and straight ascending ped. 

 floccose setose with few hairs, phyll. equally attenuate acutish in- 

 cumbent, styles livid. H. sylvaticum Sm., E. B. 2031. Very 

 variable. 13 ft. high. Rt.-l. persistent, st.-l. few j or rt.-l. 

 few and evanescent, st.-l. many. The typical plant has panicled 

 heads cylindrical when young, glaucescent 1. purplish beneath, 

 persistent rt.-l., few st.-l., greenish inv. H. maculatum (Sm.) 

 E. B. 2121. is a form with evanescent rt.-l., many and broad st.- 

 1., and imperfectly corymbose heads. Many other forms are 

 named, but they defy definition. Woods, banks, walls. P. 

 VII. IX. 



**** Pseudo-accipitrina. Inv. subglabrous. Rt.-l. often 

 forming a winter rosette but rarely present with the flowers. 



25. H. gothicum (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 

 tate at the middle, rt.-l. shortly stalked usually evanescent, lower 



