COMPOSITE. 1&7 



Raflical leaves oval or oval-lanceolate, abruptly truncate or sub- 

 cordate at the base, with rather short sparingly -woolly petioles, 

 sub-obtuse (the outer ones obtuse), remotely repand-denticulate, 

 or only callous-denticulate, sub-glabrous, ciliated with soft woolly 

 hairs on the margins and midrib beneath ; stem generally leaf- 

 less, but sometimes with a small strapshaped bract-like leaf 

 towards the base. Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 5, in a corymb. 

 Pericline truncate at the base ; phyllaries rather few, broad, sub- 

 obtuse, dark-olive, sparingly clothed with stellate down and a few 

 short black-based hairs and black gland-tipped hairs. Florets 

 glabrous, not ciliated. Styles yellow. Plant intensely glaucous. 



On limestone rocks and debris at the foot of Giggleswick and 

 Gordale Scars, near Settle, Yorkshire. 



England. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem ascending or erect, 6 to 18 inches high, generally slightly 

 curved in the lower part, and usually purplish-red. Primary 

 leaves very blunt, the lamina longer than the petiole and almost 

 truncate at the base ; inner leaves more or less acute (when nu- 

 merous, the inner ones quite acute), all very glaucous and 

 blotched or speckled with purple. Peduncles rigid, ascending. 

 Anthodes about the size of those of H. pallidum, and much resem- 

 bling them. Achenes as large as those of H. pallidum, and very 

 similar. 



Fries includes this species among bis vidgata, on account of its 

 soft hairs; but having cultivated for two years plants sent me by 

 Mr. Tatham, of Settle, I have no doubt Mr. Backhouse is right in 

 placing it near H. pallidum, to some of the forms of which it 

 approaches in habit, though the hairs on the leaves are rather softer, 

 and the phyllaries much broader and obtuse at the apex. 



Cafs-ear Hawkiceed. 



SPECIES XX.— HIE R AC I Um ARGENTEUM. Fries. 

 Plate DCCCXLIII. 



Lack. Mon. Hier. p. 49. Bah. Man. Brit Bot. ed. v. p. 204. Hook, t Am. Brit. FL 

 ed. viiL p. '225. Fries, Epic. p. 86. 



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

 glabrous, the upper part and peduncles very sparingly clothed with 

 stellate down and a few short hairs, and a very few black gland- 

 tipped hairs. Radical leaves strapshaped-elliptical, very gradually 

 attenuated into short broadly - winged very sparingly - woolly 

 petioles, acute, remotely dentate or callous-denticulate in the 

 middle, glabrous, often with scattered rather soft woolly hairs 



