182 KNGLISII BOTANY. 



hairs, sub-glalirous towards tlie marg-ins. Florets glabrous, indis- 

 tinctly ciliated at the apex. Stj4es livid. Plant glaucous. 



By the margins of streams in mountainous districts. Rare. 

 In Upper Teesdalc, both on the Yorkshire and Durham sides of 

 the Tees ; banks of the Clunie near Castleton, also above the 

 Lynn of Dee, and ravine on the southern shore of Loch Muick, 

 Braemar ; near the Grey-Mare' s-Tail, Dumfriesshire ; Ben Bulben, 

 CO. Sligo ; Twelve Pins of Bennabola, and on the Eagle Mountain, 

 Connemara ; Garron Head, co. Antrim. Mr. Backhouse thinks a 

 plant in my herbarium, collected on Hoy Hill, Orkney, also belongs 

 to this species ; it, however, is in too early a stage of growth for 

 him to be certain whether the specimens ought to be referred to 

 H. Iricum or to H. Anglicum. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem stout, 1 to 2 feet high, rigid. Leaves firm ; lowest stem- 

 leaf with the base not enlarged, which is sometimes the case in 

 H. Anglicum ; those in the middle of the stem semi-amplexicaul, 

 the upper ones smaller and acuminate. Anthodcs large, 3 to 8. 

 Phyllaries, or at least the outer ones, rather obtuse, with fewer 

 hairs than in H. Anglicum, and with these more confined to a strip 

 down the middle of the phyllary. 



This is a stouter plant than H. Anglicum, with shorter petioles 

 and larger anthodes ; and the stem-leaves are always more numerous 

 and more decidedly amplexicaul. 



Irish Hawkweed. 



Group D.— VILLOSA. 



Plant glaucous, not glandular, with simple soft hairs, or 

 glabrous. Neck of the rootstock not densely clothed with woolly 

 hairs. Badical leaves in a rosette, pei'sistent until after flower- 

 ing ; stem with numerous leaves or scape-like. Phyllaries densely 

 silky-woolly, without gland-tipped hairs ; inner ones cuspidate. 

 Elorcts generally glabrous. Achenes large, brownish-black. 



SPECIES XVI.— H lERACIUM VILLOSUM. Linn. 



Tlatk DCCCXXXIX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXI. Figs. 1, 2. 

 Fries, Epic. p. 64. 



Stem erect, sub-racemoscly branched at the apex, woolly, 

 usually densely so, Mith long simple white hairs, the upper part 



