360 ADDITIONAL SPECIES, ETC. 



on labels, nominally for this species, are too little reliable 

 to permit of its distribution being given. Thus, for the 

 present, I must reluctantly leave it merged under H. pre- 

 nanthoides. (See vol. ii. page 62.) 



HiERACii Species. 



Narrow and peddling attempts at si)ecies-naming, by 

 forced comparisons between isolated or aberrant forms of 

 British species, and the descriptions or specimens of 

 foreign authors, — instead of really investigating the limits 

 and distinctions between true native species, on a suffi- 

 cient series of examples from different situations, — are 

 gradually reducing the Hieracia into a similar chaotic 

 state of uncertainty, with that to which their geographical 

 neighbours the Salices have been so un-usefullj" reduced. 

 But so far as the reputed additions to our lists of British 

 species, or subdivisions of known species, have been 

 adopted by Mr. Babington, in the third edition of his 

 Manual, I do not feel warranted in passing them by un- 

 noticed. Besides the H. iricum and corymbosum, treated 

 above, the following names in the Manual, third edition, 

 were not used in the second volume of this work ; al- 

 though the species or varieties, supposed to be intended 

 under these names, may have been there included in some 

 instances : — 



H. RTTPESTRE, ^W.— Stated to have been found on Cairn- 

 toul, Aberdeenshire, at 2500 — 3500 feet. 



H. PALLIDUM, Bill, and H. anglicum, Fries. — These two, 

 taken together, apparently correspond with H. Lawsoni of 

 Smith, as treated in the second volume ; but excluding 

 H. Lapeyrousii (Bab. Man. edit. 2) ; and perhaps also 



