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there are much more luxuriant forms with the branches again forked. 

 Leaves sometimes minutely, sometimes very coarsely toothed, beneath 

 sometimes furnished with stellate down, but often with scarcely any ; 

 cauline ones often small, but sometimes as large as the radical ones. 

 Scales of the involucre, especially the inner ones, fine-pointed. Mr. 

 Backhouse has, we learn, proved by cultivation that H. angUcum of 

 Fries (which we had in view while describing H. pallidum in the last 

 edition) does not differ from the present species. 



6. H. "^ amplexicaule L. (amplexicaul H.) ; deep green, all 

 covered with yellowish glandulai' hairs and viscid, stem woolly 

 at the base l~3-leaved branched, branches patent, leaves some- 

 what rigid, radical ones oblong ovate toothed stalked, cauline 

 ones semi-amplexicaul, those of the branches and bracteas 

 cordate-ovate amplexicaul, ligules ciliated at the apex. £. B. S. 



t. 2690. 



" On a rock called the Garrie Barns, in CI ova," — C Don. %. 7, 8. 

 The specimen in our herbarium labelled by Don himself, as found 

 In the above rock, is obviously a cultivated one, 



7. H. alpimtm L. (alpine H.) ; green, stem with one or few 

 heads and one or more leaves hairy, leaves hairy usually 

 with glands, radical and lower cauline ones (if large) stalked 

 upper or small ones sessile, heads in bud drooping, involucre 

 campanulate much but loosely imbricated clothed with long 

 grey or fulvous black-based silky hairs, its scales mostly spread- 

 ing, outer ones subfoliaceous, innermost acuminate, ligules 

 hairy beneath, styles yellow. JE. B. t. 1110. 



Elevated rocky mountains in Scotland and Wales. %., 7, 8. — 

 Stum from 4 inches to more than a ft. high, simple in our wild spe- 

 cimens, sometimes naked, sometimes with a sin<>:le leaf, and occasionallv 

 with several leaves. Leaves varying from elliptical and about 2 inches 

 long, to oblong-lanceolate, and sometimes linear-spathulate, when 

 including the petiole they are 6 — 8 inches long ; usually nearly entire 

 or slightly toothed. LTairs on the upper part of the scape black at .the 

 base and often mixed with black setcB, In the common form the 

 involucre is thickly and the stem thinly clothed with the long silky 

 hairs. Allied to this is a plant from Clova, marked by Mr. Back- 

 house, in our herbarium, as near //. glajiduliferum Fr., which has 

 shorter leaves than //. alpinum, the whole plant more glabrous, ligules 

 almost glabrous on the back with scarcely any cilia^, and styles yellow. 



^8. H. melanocephalum Backh. (grey-headed IL) ; green, stem 

 with one or few heads and one or few leaves hairy, leaves hairy, 

 radical ones lanceolate or oblono;-lanceolate stalked usually 

 deeply toothed at the has 



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bud drooping, involucre rounded or truncate at the base loosely 

 imbricated, scales linear attenuated and as well as the peduncles 

 clothed with grey black-based hairs and many black setse, 

 ligules hairy beneath, styles livid. H. alpinum, var. melanoce- 



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