6 SOME WELSH HAWKWEEDS 
Panicle usually branched, with long ascending branches, the 
branches 1-8-flowered. Peduncles clothed with sparse white 
tomentum and black-headed sets yllaries without muicro- 
glands, bearing sete but scarcely tomentum except at base, acute, 
some of the outer ones loose with ascending points, incurved in bud, 
with white tips. Buds thick, shortly cylindrical; heads of flower 
rather small. Style nearly pure yellow 
est placed as a var. under H. vulgatum Fr., this plant neverthe- 
less les an eeu range of variation, which naturally led 
me, on first saying the wild plant, to eet a mixture of several 
species. Further study led me to attribute all the forms to a 
eae species, a aa ec Which ns paeah has abundantly 
confirmed. Very small forms with a single stem-leaf from d 
mountain banks have become in ordinar garden soil in two years 
us. The hair, 
cultivation, becomes less, and the eh a of the stem-leaves — 
exaggerate 
In comparison with H. sciaphilum Uechtr., the leafy-stemmed 
forms of this plant have shorter, more elliptic leaves, those of the 
root usually arranged in a conspicuous flat. rosette, the hair stiffer, — 
the anthode thicker, the hair and floccum of the phyllaries less in 
wag th me style nearly pure yellow 
Mou anks, hedge-banks, railway and colliery débris, &e., — 
in ani (bite ts; common, at least in South Wales. 
Localities. —Brecon shire: Abundant on the upper Re “a - 
i 9 
(see Raves, 1896, p. 528); and Ata tain banks in the 
same net without a name ae Rivake 1807 p- 556). 
mu Fr. var. ampiirotium, nov. var. Tall, stem 
2-8 ft. “ poe "eotnetiied Lt Secbaete from near bane flowers few, 
rather large ; foliage soft, light gr 
oot-leaves long- stalked, arg oblong 3 oblong-obovate, 
rounded and very obt tuse, wih * y shallow teeth often reduced 
to mere points, thin, strigose on “both sides, ean rather stiff white 
hairs. Stem-leaves 4-5, large, the upper gradually more shortly 
stalked and smaller, hairy beneath, nearly smooth above, with 
large triangular teeth, acute. 
tem bearing long white hair and sete, which are rather 
numerous under and on the base of the phyllaries, Bud os 
