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rarely more than callous points, sub-glabrous above or witb very 

 short hairs, glaucous beneath, with the network formed by the 

 ultimate veins very distinct, generally with moderately long hairs 

 on the veins and margins, and sometimes with distant short 

 hairs all over the lower surface. Anthodes small, numerous, 

 in a compound corymb or short panicle terminated by a corymb, 

 with slender very slioi't diverging pedicels, which are mostly desti- 

 tute of small bracts, except one or two beneath tlie anthode. Peri- 

 cline ovate at the base ; phyllaries few, in 2 irregular series ; the 

 outer ones very few and short, rather lax, sub-acute, concolorous ; 

 the inner ones obtuse, with paler margins ; all blackish-olive, with 

 numerous short black and gland-tipped hairs, and a little stellate 

 down. Ligules ciliated at the apex. Styles livid-yellow. Achenes 

 small, pale reddish-brown. 



On the margins of streams and woody ravines. Not uncommon 

 in sub-alpine districts. In Teesdale and Western Yorkshire ; 

 Cheviots and Pentlands, in the South of Scotland ; Clova, Braemar, 

 and Breadalbane, in the North. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem erect, rather stout, 1 to 3 feet high, generally purplish 

 below, with the leaves rather thinly scattered over the whole 

 stem, but many of those on the lower part of it generally 

 withered by the time of flowering ; the lower ones narrowed at the 

 base, but they can seldom be called distinctly petiolate ; those in 

 the middle third of the stem enlarged and clasping at the base, 

 then slightly contracted, attaining their greatest width beyond 

 the middle, from whence they taper gradually to the apex, 

 so that they present somewhat the shape of the sole of a shoe ; 

 generally with remote callous points on the margin, more rarely 

 with distinct teeth, beautifully reticulated on the under surface, 

 which is decidedly glaucous. Anthodes small, about the size of 

 those of n. murorum ; and, as in that plant, the pedicels and phyl- 

 laries are thickly clothed with black gland-tipped hairs. 



H. prenanthoides cannot well be confounded with any of the 

 preceding species ; it has the leaves more araplexicaul than in any 

 of them ; and, besides the small size of the anthodes, the phyl- 

 laries are reduced to one row, with a few shorter ones on the out- 

 side, and, as well as the peduncles, clothed with numerous gland- 

 tipped hairs. 



Rough-leaved Sawkweed. 



French, Eperviere a Feuilles de Prenanthe. 



