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XLvi. composite: ciciioeace^. imer^cium. 



obtuse in bud not longer than the florets, li^ules ^labvnn. ^ 

 the apex, styles livid ? ° ^^^^lous at 



Teesdale. Clova, If.. 7, 8. — Zeares all similar in form • "rad" i 

 ones_ dark green and rigid, very variable in number, sometimo 

 forming a rosette, usually tbree or four but occasionally all faded • ^ 

 the flowering season. Heads of flowers on the averao-e laro-er but 1 

 numerous than those of H. st/haticum."— Baker. ' We do'' not kno"^^ 

 what the specimens from Mr. Woods, quoted by Fries, are but /^ 

 understand that Mr. H. Watson's from Surrey, and referred to bv 

 Mr. Ikbmgton, belong to //. tridentatmn ; indeed, from the root leaves 

 usually withering away at an early period, this species mio-ht al-no-t 

 be looked for in the next division of the genus. Mr. Baker states 

 the style to be livid, Fries "fusco-hispidulus, siccitato-f(digineus "and 

 Mr Backhouse writes us that it is yellow; to us it certainly ap'npo., 

 livid ui the dried specimen. " ^ ^ 



, ^f- }}\ Povrense Fr. {Bofrine H.) ; » pale green, stem simple 

 leaty divided upvv^ards into few short 1- (or rarely 2-) headed 

 peduncles, leaves oblong or lanceolate toothed, radical ones 

 smaller than the others stalked soon withering, cauline ones 

 sessde, upper with a cordate base and semi-amplexicaul in 

 volucres becoming black hairy, scales broad obtuse, lioules 

 cdiated ' Fries. ? o co 



Scotland (Fries). 1\.. 7,8 We have seen no British specimens • 



■from the radical leaves soon withering, it, as well as the last, mi^rhtbe 

 supposed to belong to the next group (with wliich Mr. Babin<.ton ha. 

 •arranged both) ; it has an involucre similar to what we find in B 

 ■loreale and its allies, but the ligules appear to be constantly ciliated* 

 Leaves passing gradually into bracteas. Involucre subglobose, pretty 

 large, black with a few short simple hairs or rarely black set./ 

 Achenes as in H. horeale dark-brown, slightly scabrous ; pappus white" 

 btyles fuliginose when dry. 



3. Plants producing (hefore zointer) leaf-bnds at the base, which next 

 year become leafy stems w ithout radical leaves. Achenes of moderate 

 ■ size, truncate at the top : hairs of pappus unequal. . 



20. H. prenantlioides VIII. {rough-hordered 11.) ; stem erect 



leafy sunple hairy, panicle corymbose, leaves denticulate or entire , v 



cihated retKmlated and glaucous beneath, lower ones oWo ' tp 



tapering at the base into an aurlcled amplexicaul petiole, uppe? i 



peduSc e^s 'and i^'T^'""?-^ o,vate-cor!late acute^or acumEe '^ ¥. 



peduncles and involucres hispid with hairs and black seta^ 

 outer scales few and much smaller than the Inner obtuse one? 

 ligules cd.ated at the apex, achenes pale or li^ht brown verv ' 



smooth. E. B. t. ^Ofir^ FT rl«^f:„.,i„..._ ^ t,"!^ urown very 



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River-sides in the Flighlands of Scotland, but rare ' li' 7 s '" ' 



Heads small, numerous; involucres cylindrical tho .nnl„c , l" V "~ ' 



scarce 

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