20ii ENGLISH BOTANY. 



a character by which the species may be readily known in all its 

 forms. 



;Mr. Backhouse gives a variety (3 filifolium) characterized by 

 having the leaves very narrow and with revolute margins, but 

 this I have not seen. 



Narrow-leaved Haiokweed. 



French, Eperviere en Omhelle. German, Doldiges Habichtskraut. 



Group B.— SABAUDA. 



Stem leafy, without a basal rosette, paniculato-corymboscly or 

 sub-racemoso-corymbosely branched at the apex. Lower stem- 

 leaves narrowed at the base ; upper ones broad, sessile, not amplexi- 

 caul at the base, all paler (but not glaucous) beneath and with the 

 network formed by the ultimate veins inconspicuous. Phyllaries 

 numerous, imbricated in several rows, concolorous, dark-olive, 

 sparingly hairy, nearly or wholly destitute of gland-tipped hairs, 

 none of them squarrose at the points. Achenes chestnut-black 

 when ripe. 



SPECIES XXXI.— HIE R AC I UM BOREALE. Fries. 



Plate DCCCLIV. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDXLI. 



Jiack. Moll. Hier. p. 75. Sab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 208 Hook ii Arn. Brit. Fl. 



eil. viii. p. 232. Fries, Epic. p. 130. 

 H. S'lbaudum, Sm. Eiig. Bot. No. 34D (non Linn.). 

 II. iicterophj'iluiu, Bladon, in Pliyt. ser. i. Vol. II. p. 961. 



Stem very leafy, paniculate- or racemoso-corymbosely branched 

 at the apex, generally woolly in the lower part, sparingly clothed 

 witli stellate down and simple woolly hairs in the upper part ; 

 peduncles rather densely clothed with stellate down, sometimes 

 intermixed with hairs which are often black-based but not gland- 

 tipped. Leaves very numerous, commonly crowded in the lower 

 part of the stem ; the lowest ones elliptical- or oval-oblauceolate ; 

 middle ones elliptical or oval and attenuated at each end ; the 

 upper ones ovate or ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, broad or even 

 sub-cordate, but not amplexicaul at the base ; all (except the 

 lowest) acute, remotely denticulate - serrate or dentate- serrate 

 towards the middle, more or less hairy with soft hairs on both sides 

 and especially on the veins beneath, ciliated with rather long hairs 

 on the margins. Authodos moderately large, numerous, in a 

 corymb or short panicle or raceme terminated by the corymb, with 



