101 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Stem scapo-liko, corymbosely branched at the apex, sparingly 

 clothed with stellate down, the peduncles rather densely so and 

 with scattered black gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, oval, rather abruptly attenuated at the base into 

 rather long slender woolly petioles, sub-acute or sub-obtuse, 

 denticulate or dentate, with sharp spreading teeth towards the 

 base, clothed with very minute stellate down, especially beneath 

 and when young ; stem with 1 or 2, rarely 3 leaves, the lowest 

 one rather large, sub-petiolate, with the indistinct petiole winged 

 and semi-amplexicaul ; upper ones much smaller and sessile. 

 Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 7, in a lax sub-racemose (?) 

 corymb. Peduncles elongate, ascending, usually slightly curved. 

 Pericline ovoid at the base ; phyllaries numerous, acuminate, 

 dark-olive, sparingly clothed with white-tipped hairs, and a few 

 black gland -tipped hairs. Florets sub - glabrous, not ciliated. 

 Styles livid-yellow. Plant ashy-green. 



On the mai'gins of alpine streamlets, at an elevation of 1,500 

 to 3,000 feet. Rare. Eastern side of Cairntowl and higher part 

 of Glen Dee, cliffs near the Dhuloch and Loch-na-nean, Aber- 

 deenshire ; near the Kirktown of Clova, Forfarshire. 



Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



I have never collected this plant, nor seen it in a living state, 

 but have a specimen gathered by Mr. Backhouse on the cliffs above 

 the Dhuloch. This is about 16 inches high, but Mr. Backhouse 

 says it varies from 18 inches to 2 feet. The radical leaves in my 

 specimen arc few, with the lamina about equal to the petiole, 

 regularly oval at each end, and remotely denticulate, with the 

 teeth terminated by callous projections ; the lower stem-leaf is oval- 

 elliptical, nearly as large as the radical leaves, and beneath the 

 middle of the stem ; the upper stem-leaf is lanceolate and much 

 smaller ; all the leaves arc stellatcly furfuraceous on both sides. 

 The anthodes arc 4 in nuralicr, sub-racemose, considerably smaller 

 than those of H. crcsium, but rather larger than those of H. muro- 

 rum ; the phyllaries shorter than in H. cicsiimi, nearly destitute of 

 stellate down, but with many more short black-based hairs inter- 

 mixed with a few gland-tipped ones. 



Fries quotes this under H. caesium, with a mark of admiration 

 to indicate that he has seen specimens ; but it is certainly quite 

 distinct from the plant called H. ctesiuni by British botanists, 

 although he also quotes H. caesium of Backhouse's British llieracia 

 with a mark of admiration : besides this he mentions that his II. 

 caesium has the leaves with stellate down beneath, while aU the 



