44. COMPOSITE. 69 



Range of mean annual temperature 46 — 38. 



Native. Rupestral. Apparently a species truly distinct 

 from H. murorum, with which it was long confused; and, 

 indeed, still is so by several botanists ; nor is it easy to dis- 

 tinguish some of the specimens in a dried state. I have 

 not seen H. Lapeyrousii in a fresh state, and the dried spe- 

 cimens appear to my eyes to come very close indeed to H. 

 Lawsoni ; which latter has not unfrequently two, and some- 

 times three, leaves on the stem, below the branches. 

 Judging from the description of H. Schmidtii in Babing- 

 ton's Manual, this latter would seem to belong here also. 

 H. Lapeyrousii is recorded from the banks of the Tees 

 river, which divides the provinces of Humber and Tyne, 

 and apparently from the superagrarian or inferarctic zone, 

 possibly both. 



HiERACIUM CERINTHOIDES, Linn. 



Area [10 * * 13 * 15]. 



Incognit- Another of our opprobria among the species 

 of its genus, the really British representatives of (or, instead 

 of) which may perhaps be correctly refeiTed to H. Lawsoni. 

 Mr. Joseph Woods states that he found a single specimen 

 of H. cerinthoides on the Yorkshire side of the Tees, near 

 Middleton ; and this statement I will believe when some 

 other botanist shall find a second specimen. G. Don as- 

 serts it to be " not rare " in the Highlands of Scotland, 

 and localizes it more specifically " on rocks among the 

 Clova mountains." In Dumfriesshire, according to Boue, 

 f^fi ;.y as quoted in New Botanist's Guide. A garden plant, kindly 

 given to me by Mr. BoiTer, is clearly different from H. 

 Lawsoni ; but was it of British origin ? 



