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late or obovate, attenuated into more or less distinct petioles ; 

 intermediate one narrowly oblong-elliptieal or oval-oblong, rounded 

 and siib-semiam])lexicaul at tbe base, gradually attenuated and 

 acute at the apex ; uppermost ones lanceolate or ovate, I'ounded 

 but scarcely amplexicaul at the base, acuminate and attenuated at 

 the apex ; all more or less denticulate with the teeth remote and 

 frequently reduced merely to callous points, sub-glabrous above, 

 pale and glaucous beneath, with the network formed by the 

 ultimate veins rather indistinct, sparingly hairy on the veins and 

 margins, with the hairs rather stiif and moderately long. Anthodes 

 moderately large, rather few, in a corymb or short panicle ter- 

 minated by a corymb, with rather slender ascending straight 

 peduncles generally furnished with a few minute bracts, which do 

 not pass gradually into the outer phyllaries. Pericline truncate 

 at the base ; phyllaries rather numerous, sub - obtuse, the inner 

 ones rather broader and more obtuse than the others, with paler 

 margins ; all dark-olive, sparingly clothed, especially along the 

 middle line, with black-based and a few black gland-tipped hairs, 

 generally finely and very shortly ciliated on the margins when 

 young. Ligules slightly ciliated at the apex. Styles livid-yellow. 

 Achenes chestnut. 



By the banks of streams and in ravines in mountainous 

 districts. In the Lake district ; "Western Yorkshire ; Inverarnan 

 and Arroquhar, Dumbartonshire ; Oban, Argyleshire ; Fall of 

 Foyers, Inverness-shire ; Glea Devon, in the Ochills, and near 

 Lochy Bridge, Breadalbane, Perthshire ; Lethens Den, Fife ; 

 CO. Derry ; Garron Head, co. Antrim ; co. "VYicklow. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



This species I have never gathered, and am very imperfectly 

 acquainted with. The few specimens of it which I have seen pre- 

 sent considerable difference in the breadth of the leaves ; examples 

 from the Ochills having them as broad as those of H. corymbosum 

 or II. boreale ; but in the Wensleydale specimens they closely resem- 

 ble those of II. crocatum. The intermediate leaves of both forms 

 are more amplexicaul and much less strongly toothed than in H. 

 boreale, besides being glaucous beneath ; the peduncles are stiffer 

 and have rarely the Ijracts passing insensibly into phyllaries, as in 

 that plant ; the anthodes are fewer, and the phyllaries have pale 

 margins, andare rarely destitute of at least a few gland-tipped hairs. 



From n. crocatum it may be known by the leaves being less 

 strongly toothed, less amplexicaul, the upper ones scarcely at aU 



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