171 ENGLISn BOTANT. 



SPECIES IX.— HIERACIUM CHRYSANTHUM. Bach 



Plates DCCCXXX. DCCCXXXI. 



Back. Mod. Hier. p. 34. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 202. Hook. <fe Am. Brit. FL 



ed. viii. p. 221. 

 H. pulmonarium, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2307 (?). 



Stem simple or corymbosely branched at the apex, more or less 

 clothed with stellate down, intermingled above with black gland- 

 tipped hairs and a few simple black or black-based hairs, and 

 below with white simple hairs. Radical leaves rather thin, oval or 

 elliptical, suddenly (or the inner ones gradually) contracted into 

 rather long woolly petioles, acute (or the outer ones obtuse), 

 coarsely and very irregularly serrate-dentate, often with a few long 

 and very acute teeth near the base, hairy or sub-glabrous ; stem 

 generally with a few small bract-like leaves, the lowest one often 

 much larger, attenuated at the base, and resembling the radical 

 leaves. Anthodes solitary, or more often 2 or more in a corymb. 

 Pericline rounded at the base. Phyllaries rather narrow ; outer 

 ones small, rather lax ; all acute, nearly black, thickly clothed with 

 short black hairs, mixed with numerous gland-tipped ones, and 

 sometimes a few black-based hairs. Florets sub-glabrous exter- 

 nally, slightly pilose at the tips. Styles yellow. Plant green. 



Var. a, genuinum. 



Plate DCCCXXXI. 



II. rupeslre, Bah. olim (non All.'). 



Anthodes usually slightly drooping ; leaves very unequally inciso- 

 serrate-dentate. PericUne broad. Styles bright-yellow. 



Var. 3, microcephalum. Back. 

 Plate DCCCXXXH. 

 H. atratum, Bah. olim (non Fries). 



Anthodes usually erect; leaves more evenly dentate, some- 

 times nearly entire. Pericline smaller, narrower. Styles slightly 

 livid. 



On mountains, at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Xot un- 

 common. In the Bracmar and Clova districts, and in Inverness 

 and Sutherland. Var. 3 on Cairntowl and Loch-na-gar, Aberdeen- 

 shire ; cliffs above Lochwharral, Clova ; slate rocks of Stridden 

 Edge and Glara-mara, Cumberland. 



England, Scotland, Perennial. Autumn. 



