212 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES XXXVL— HIE RACIUM BORRERI. 



Plate DCCCLIX. 

 H. denticulatum, Borrer, MS. (non Sni. Eng. Bot. nee Herb.). 



Stem leafy, corymbosely or subpaniculato-corymbosely branched 

 at the apex, sparingly woolly below, and with black gland-tipped 

 hairs above ; peduncles sparingly clothed with stellate down and 

 rather thickly with black gland-tipped hairs. Leaves sparingly 

 distributed over the stem up to the inflorescence ; the lower ones 

 oval, rather abruptly contracted into slender distinct petioles; 

 intermediate ones regularly oval, narrowed at each end, amplex- 

 icaul at the base, with rounded auricles, acute ; uppermost ones 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaul, sub-acuminate ; all sub- 

 entire, or denticulate in the middle with the teeth remote and 

 often reduced merely to callous points^, green, sub-glabrous or with 

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

 the ultimate veins very distinct, with moderately long hairs on 

 the veins and margins, and sometimes with distant short hairs 

 all over the lower surface. Anthodes very small, rather numerous, 

 in a corymb, or very short panicle terminated by a corymb, with 

 slender short diverging pedicels, which are usually fm-nished 

 with a few bracts beneath the anthode. Pericline ob-conical at 

 the base ; phyllaries few, in two irregular series ; the outer ones 

 very few, short, lax, subacute ; the inner ones with pale mar- 

 gins, subacute ; all blackish-olive, thickly clothed with short black 

 hairs and gland-tipped hairs, and a little stellate down. Ligules 

 ciliated at the apex. Styles yellow. Achenes pale reddisli-brown. 



In llarehead Wood, near Selkirk (Dickson) ; but it has not 

 been found since his time. 



Scotland ? Perennial. Late Summer. 



This plant is certainly very nearly allied to H. prenanthoides ; 

 but in cultivation alongside of it 11. Borreri appears much more 

 slender, the stems 12 to IS inches high, with fewer leaves, and these 

 decreasing rapidly in size upwards from a little below the first 

 branches of the inflorescence. The leaves are much broader, and of 

 a more regularly oval ligure ; the lowest ones abruptly contracted 

 into the petiole, not gradually, as in II. prenanthoides ; those in the 

 middle of the stem not contracted immediately above the base, but 

 gradually enlarging to the middle, and again narrowing to the 

 point, with a regular curve throughout ; uppermost leaves with tlio 

 broadest part not so immediately above tbe base, so that they are 



