56 44. COMPOSIT.E. 



murorum and sylvaticum are inextricably confused, and 

 hence much uncertainty about their respective localities ; 

 and, indeed, there are specimens of one or both in my own 

 herbarium, which I am unable to name with any confidence 

 of accuracy. Besides the forms which approximate to H, 

 sylvaticum, there is another with very glaucous, thin and 

 large leaves, which I have collected in Surrey and Cumber- 

 land, and which is propagated freely by seed. Judging by 

 a rude sketch of H. nudicaule, shovi^n to me by Edmond- 

 ston, in 1844, this latter form may be the same with his 

 plant, although usually it has one or two stem-leaves. 



572*. HiERACiDM ScHMiDTii, Tausch. 



Area ***3|f**78*10*12*i^l5. 



South limit in Leicester, Caernarvon, York. 



North limit in Westmoreland, Perth, Forfar. 



Estimate of provinces — } Estimate of counties — ? 



Latitude 52 — 57. Highland (?) type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to a trifling elevation, in England. 



Ascends to 800 yards, more or less, in E. Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 48 — 39. 



Native. Rupestral. With this alleged species I am to- 

 tally unacquainted. The above-mentioned counties are all 

 in which I am aware of localities on the authority of other 

 parties; four of them resting on manuscript memoranda 

 obligingly supplied by Mr. C. C. Babington, and the other 

 two on the authority of Mr. Bon-er. The latter botanist is 

 quoted for the name in the Flora of Forfarshire ; and he 

 has also, somewhat vaguely, indicated the occurrence of 

 the plant in Westmoreland, in a paper in the Phytologist, 

 ii. p. 434. In his Manual Mr. Babington mentions no 



