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and peduncles with stellate down and black-based hairs, but no 

 gland-tipped ones. Radical leaves oblanceolate or strapshaped- 

 oblanceolate, mucronate, undulated, nearly entire ; stem-leaves 3 

 to 10, the lower ones attenuated at the base, the middle ones 

 elliptical or oval, the upper ones ovate-acuminate or lanceolate ; 

 all sub-denticulate or entire, sessile or semi-amplcxicaul, AVOoUy 

 on both sides, or only on the midrib, and ciliated witli long simple 

 white hairs ; bracts at the base of the peduncles ovate or lanceo- 

 late. Anthodes large, 1 to G, in a terminal sub-racemose corymb. 

 Pcricline hemispherical at the base ; phyllai-ies numerous, the outer 

 ones broad, sub-foliaceous, and lax ; inner ones abruptly acute ; 

 all clothed and densely ciliated with very long simple silky white 

 hairs, not interspersed with gland-tipped ones, Elorets nearly 

 glabrous. Styles yellow. Plant glaucous. 



On alpine rocks, but there is considerable doubt if it has 

 occurred in this country. There is, however, a specimen in 

 Smith's Herbarium, :.nd one in the collection of the late Mr. W. 

 Eobertson, in the Newcastle Museum : both of these are from 

 Mr. Drummond, and said to be " from rocks near Glen Callater." 

 On the one hand, it will be very surprising if so conspicuous a 

 plant should have escaped recent observation. On the other, 

 Mr. Drummond was a man on whose specimens much greater 

 reliance may be placed than on those of most of the old collectors. 

 H. villosum was also said to have been found by Don about Loch- 

 na-gar; but without the corroboration of Mr. Drummond, little 

 attention would now be paid to this statement, from his liabit of 

 sending out cultivated specimens, which he believed to be the 

 same as some plant which he had seen growing wild, but wliich 

 very often was really something quite different ; such as Potentilla 

 tridcntata, sent by him, when the plant which he had seen was no 

 doubt Potentilla Sibbaldia. 



Scotland ? Perennial. Autumn. 



A vei-y variable plant, the stems 4 to 18 inches high : when 

 small and mouocephalous, having somewhat the aspect of H. holo- 

 sericcum, but when large and with numerous leaves and anthodes, 

 unlike any of the other British species. The leaves vary very 

 much in breadth and the anthodes in size, but the latter are 

 generally large, and very handsome from the densely silky woolly 

 pericline. 



The drawing which is now given of this plant is taken from 



