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SPECIES XXIX.— HIERACIUM TRIDENT ATUM. Fries. 



Plate DCCCLII. 



Eekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDXXXI. 



Back Jlon. Hier. p. 67. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 206. JTooL & Am. Brit. Fl. 



etl. viii. p. 229. Fries, Epic. p. 116. 

 " II. rigiduiu, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. iL p. 530. Beich. 1. c. (non Uartm.)," 



Fries. 



Stem loafy, corymboscly or paniculato-corymboscly branched 

 at the apex, sparingly hairy with simple woolly hairs below, sub- 

 glabrous in the middle, puberulent with stellate down on the 

 upper part and peduncles ; the latter with a few black-based hairs, 

 but few or no gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves always decayed 

 by the time of flowering, but sometimes there is a small lateral tuft 

 which simulates a radical rosette ; lowest leaves elliptical-oblan- 

 ceolate, petiolate ; intermediate ones elliptical, attenuated at both 

 ends; uppermost ones sessile, not amplexicaul, lanceolate, attenu- 

 ated towards the apex, acute, all more or less strongly serrate 

 towards the middle, with the teeth very distant and elongated, 

 entire at the apex, sub-glabrous above, generally slightly hairy 

 beneath and on the margins, woolly on the midrib beneath as well 

 as on the petioles of the leaves. Anthodes rather small, usually 

 numerous, in a corymb or corymbose-topped panicle, on straight 

 rather short slender erect or ascending pedicels. Pericline trun- 

 cate at the base, conical after flowering ; phyllaries numerous, sub- 

 obtuse, inner ones narrower, olive, nearly glabrous, with a few short 

 simple black or white-tipped hairs mostly along the middle line, 

 occasionally with a few gland-tipped hairs and sometimes a little 

 stellate down towards the base. Florets glabrous, not ciliated 

 towards the apex. Styles livid. 



In hedgebanks and margins of woods. Eather common, and 

 generally distributed in England ; apparently rare in Scotland, 

 where I have never gathered it ; but Professor Babington gives it 

 as occurring both in Scotland and Ireland. Mr. H. C. Watson 

 doubts its existence in Scotland. 



England, Scotland (?), Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem erect, slightly flexuous, 18 inches to 5 feet high, usually 

 distinctly hairy below. Leaves much resembling the stem-leaves 

 of H. vulgatum, but more strongly toothed towards the middle and 

 with the lateral veins curving round more, so as to run for some dis- 



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