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22S XLYI. coMFOSiTyE : ciCHORACE^ii:. \_IIierdcium, 



ovate-lanceolate narrowed gradually below toothed about the 

 middle glaucous and prominently veined beneath, upper ones 

 somewhat amplexicaul, peduncles with leaves or bracteas erecto- 

 patent usually rigid and the broadly-ovate-based involucres 

 sprinkled with white stellate down and black hairs and seta?, 

 scales dark green blackish when dry paler at the margin, outer 

 ones shorter lax acute, inner attenuated upwards bluntish, 

 ligules glabrous, styles yellowish." H. boreale Br. FL ed. 6. (in 

 part.) 



Mountain-glens in Teesdale, Wales and ScothuiJ. 2/., 7,8. j 



" Stem 2 — G feet high. Intimately allied to H, crocatum^ but distin- 

 guished by its leaves, panicles, and involucres; heads of flowers more 

 numerous but smaller." — Baker in litL 



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 25, IT. ci^ocdtum Fries {soffron-cQloiired H,) ; "stem rigid or Y 



flexuose glabrous or hairy densely leafy paniculato-corymbose 

 at the top, leaves narrowed gradually to a broad base paler 

 and prominently veined beneath, upper ones amplexicaul, 

 peduncles erecto-patent and the broad based involucres slightly 

 stellately-downy, scales dark green blackish when dried slightly 

 hairy or setose on the back closely appressed all blunt, ligules 

 glabrous at the apex, styles crocate.'^ H. boreale Br, FL ed. 6. 

 (partly). 



Scotch mountains. Teesdale, Craven, and Cleveland. 1|1, 7, g, 

 " Stem ] — 3 feet high, glabrous or hairy. Leaves numerous, varying- in ' 



shape from ovate to linear-lanceolate, rigid or flaccid, glabrous or hairv. m 



Heads of flo\vers large, but not so numerous as in H. itmhellatvm. 

 Allied to H, wnhellatum and H, cori/ynhosiim, rather than to JI, 

 horeale,''' — Baker in litt As we ourselves cannot distinguish this and 

 the last species in the dried state from each other, nor at all times '''s 



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26. H. umbelldttun L, (narrow-leaved 11,) ; stem erect simple 

 corymbose or subumbellate at the apex rigid very leafy, leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear toothed or entire, lower ones at- ft 



tenuated at the base, upper sessile acute or rounded at the 

 base, peduncles and sometimes the involucres with stellate 

 down not hairy, scales obtuse with recurved points. — a, leaves 

 all attenuated at the base. E, B. t. 1771.— (3. leaves broader 

 and ovate at the base, whole plant laro-er. 



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Woods, or stony, or rocky places. Rare in Scotland. — ^. Near "'P 



Dunkerran, co, Kerry, Ireland. 1^. 8, 9. — The most decidedly J" 



marked species of the genus. Involucres usually dark green and | k- 



glabrous, but sometimes pale, always with recurved poin1;s to the L f'^ 



scales. Achenes slightly scabrous, dark brown, and usually shorter | 5j 



than those of H. boreale. Styles said by Fries to be permanently i n 



yello^^, and they never seem to become of the dark livid colour I !? 

 pbservable in some others. 





