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HIERACIUM CYMBIFOLIUM, sp. n. 
By tHe Rev. W. H. Pourcuas, L. Th. 
Tis Hawkweed has been known to me for at least the last 
fifteen years. I first noticed it on rocky (limestone) banks in the 
valley of the Manifold, near Wetton, the parish adjoining this, 
whence I brought it into my garden, where it continued year after 
year to maintain its characteristic form and texture of leaf; and I 
became more and more satisfied of its distinctness from other 
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restricted spot, I did not think it would be wise to name and 
describe it until more should be known about it. I had, however, 
given plants of it to the Rev. W. R. Linton, who had become 
familiar with it in cultivation, and in July of last year he, with his 
brother the Rev. E. Linton and Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, met with 
it in one of the Derbyshire dales near Miller’s Dale, and they, after 
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Dr. Elfstrand, who pronounced them to be a variety of H. murorum 
not yet recognized in Scandinavia. 
Hieracium cymbifolium, sp.n. Leaves usually all radical, 
glaucous, thick and coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, truncate and with 
one or more spreading teeth on each side at the base ; most fre- 
remainder of their outline, but occasionally 
with a few patent triangular teeth, rounded and mucronate at the 
ranches one or two, nearly straight wit ; 
origin; smaller branches and peduncles curved, clothed with more or 
hairs with thick black bases. Ligules often very numerous an 
expanding widely so that the opened flower-head is sometimes 
