to be 



d the 



murorum), and from Kings Park, Edinburgh, of what may prove 

 the same, but the invol. scales are rather acute than blunt, an 

 leaves are not spotted. 



16. IL cmsium Fries (glaucous H.) ; ca3sio-gIaucous, stem 

 leafless or usually with one or few sessile leaves below once or 

 twice forked or corymbose at the top with straight rigid erecto- 

 patent peduncle;^, radical leaves numerous stalked* ovate or 



222 XLYL composite: cichoeace^. [ffierdcmm. 



stalked usually rounded or cordate at the base and then with 

 radiating or reflexed teeth somewhat hairy, cauline ones sessilo 

 or stalked, peduncles and the involucres with white stellat 

 down and many black seta3 with a few whitish black-based hairs^ 

 inner scales of the involucre cuspidate in bud straight, and much 

 longer than the florets, ligules glabrous at the apex, styles livid. 



Woods, walls, and rocks, not uncommon. 2^. 6, 8. — Fries refers 

 Smith's var. ^. only to this species, while the var, a. and the fio-ure ia 

 E. Bot. are considered to be H. caesium. Fries also mentions'^his //* 

 phunheum as a British species, a plant having the leaves with stellate 

 down beneath, and the involucre of //. murorum, the stem being forked 

 as in //. coisluni. We fear, however, tliat the character derived from 

 the stellate down depends on the aridity of th« soil, and Fries himself 

 allows that the inflorescence of the true IL murorum is sometimes 

 forked. Fries states that alpine forms of this species have the lio-ules 

 ciliated ; such we have not observed in this country, 



15. H. Hypochrn'ridis Gibs. {Cats-ear H.) ; ca?sio-glaucous, i^ 



stem nearly glabrous leafless with narrow bracteas under each 

 of the 2— 3 peduncles, radical leaves usually spotted ovate or 

 oblong stalked toothed near the base ciliated and sprinkled near 

 the margin on both sides with rigid hairs, petioles shaggy, pe- 

 duncles and truncate involucre with stellate down and black 

 bristles, scales in bud very obtuse not exceeding the florets 

 ligules glabrous, styles yellow. H. ccesium var. Hypocha^ridis 

 Fries. 



Giggleswick Scars near Settle, Yorkshire. -2^. 8. -- << A good 

 species, distinguished from H. ccBsium by its truncate involucre, *^'ery 

 blunt phyllaries (scales) and yellow styles; nearer to IL palUdvm:' 

 — Backhouse. The scales of the involucre not straight, and exceedin'o- 

 the opening florets, but bent in over them seem to ally it with the 

 two next, almost the only other British species which show this 

 structure ; at the same time we only presume tills to be the case in 

 the present species, from the observations of others, for such a cha- 

 racter is not to be detected in dried specimens. We have specimens 

 from Montgomeryshire from Mr. Leighton (under the name of H. 



I 



lanceolate rounded or attenuated and deei3ly toothed at the 

 base, peduncles and involucre with stellate down black-based I 



hau's and biack seta^, scales rather obtuse in bud not exceedino- \ f 



the florets, Jigules glabrous, styles livid. H. murorum ii\ iA " ^^^ 



t. 1082. (fide Fries). 



