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llather common. In Wales, the Lake district, Teesdale, and most 

 of the hilly districts in Scotland, even as low as Salisbury Craigs, 

 Edinburgh, and descending to a little above the level of the sea at 

 the Waulk-miD Bay, Orphir, Orkney. It also occurs in Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem G inches to 2 feet high, rather rigid, sometimes with a few 

 white hairs at the base, and then nearly glabrous up to the point 

 where it commences to branch, usually with a single leaf about the 

 middle, or a little below it. Hadical leaves generally tapering 

 towards each end, generally denticulate or dentate towards the base, 

 but sometimes witli the teeth projecting considerably in the base 

 and middle of the leaf, the terminal portion entire ; petioles gene- 

 rally woolly, especially at the base. Anthodes commonly 3 or 4, but 

 varying from 1 to 13, moderately large, considerably smaller than 

 in any of the preceding Pulmonarea. 



This plant, in its usual form, is very distinct from all the pre- 

 ceding, but some states rather closely resemble some of those of 

 H. Anglicum. It has, however, the leaves smaller, usually narrower, 

 and more abrupt at the base, and commonly more distinctly ciliated 

 with long hairs at the margins ; the stem is more slender and brittle, 

 much more glabrous ; the peduncles shorter and straighter ; the 

 phyUaries not nearly so dark, and the anthodes considerably smaller. 



Pale Saickiceed. 



German, Blasses Hahichtskravi. 



SPECIES XVIII— H lERACIUM CINERESCENS. Jwd. 



Plate DCCCXLI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLI. 

 Fries, Epic. p. 85. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 370. 



H. lasiophyllum, Bach. Mod. Hier. p. 45. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. t. p. 204. 

 Hook. & Am. Biit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 224 (non Koch ?). 



Stem scape-like, corymbosely branched at the apex, sparingly 

 clothed with long white hairs, and (especially in the upper part) 

 stellate down, the upper part and peduncles with short black gland- 

 tipped hairs. Radical leaves oval-oblong, abruptly contracted into 

 short densely-woolly petioles, subacute (the outer ones obtuse), 

 entire or denticulate, especially towards the base, rough with 

 stellate down and sparingly clothed with long stiff woolly haii's 

 on both sides, or at least below, and densely ciliated with the same 

 on the margins ; stem leafless, or with a single small strapshaped- 

 lanceolate sessile bract-Uke leaf near the middle. Anthodes rather 



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