188 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



on the under side and margins ; stem-leaves 1 to 3, the lowest 

 ones sessile and semi-amplexicaul, or subsessile, elliptical-strap- 

 shaped, the upper ones usually bract-like. Anthodes rather 

 large, 2 to 4, in a corymb, or more when the stem is branched 

 from near the base. Pericline at length truncate below ; phyl- 

 laries rather numerous, rather broad, subacute, or the outer ones 

 obtuse, dark-olive, very spai'ingly clothed with stellate down, espe- 

 cially towards the margins, and with a few simple white or black- 

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

 not ciliated. Styles yellow. Plant intensely glaucous. 



In mountainous districts. At the foot of Snowden, North 

 Wales ; Melbreak, near Crummock Water, and Great End, Cum- 

 berland ; Clova District ; Castleton of Braemar, and Craig Dhu- 

 loch, Aberdeen ; Isle of Harris, in the Hebrides. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Radical leaves, or at least the inner 

 ones, very long and narrow. Peduncles elongated, rigid. Buds 

 cylindrical, witli the ends of the phyllaries reflexed. This plant I 

 have never gathered, and have seen but a single British specimen, 

 which was collected in Glen Dole, Clova, by Dr. George Lawson. 



Silcery Hawkweed. 



SPECIES XXL— HIERACIUM NITIDUM. BmL 



Plate DCCCXLIV. 



Bach. Mou. Hier. \\ 50. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 204. Hook i Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 22.5. 

 H. palliduin, persicifolium, Fries, Epic. p. 84. 



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

 glabrous, the upper part and peduncles with stellate down and 

 gland-tipped hairs, and a few white simple hairs. Radical leaves 

 elliptical or narrowly elliptical, gradually contracted into rather 

 short slightly-winged and slightly-woolly petioles, very coarsely 

 toothed in the lower half, acute or subacute, glabrous above, 

 sparingly clothed with rather soft woolly hairs on the under 

 side and margins ; stem with a single leaf, sub-petiolate when 

 near the bottom of the stem, sessile when near the middle, 

 narrower than the root-leaves, very acute, and coarsely dentate. 

 Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 5, in a corymb, or more when 

 the stem is branched from below the corymb. Pericline hemi- 



