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Pace 2 as _— ago as 1875, some of them placed for comparison 
arrense, some of them not assorted, but amongst the 
renee ” This fact of Dr. Boswell’s specimens, thoug 
abundant, having gone so many years undetermined, confirmed us 
specimens came, from the neighbourhood - Sligachan, ‘Sky 
more plentifully from near Vig, the Vaterish ‘Clifis, 
in the north-west of that island, an od alec so wp re the str 
beath, Caithness. Besides these stations, which are st in the 
North of Scotland, we have what is evidently the same plant fro 
rocks of Meall-nan-Tarmachan by Lochan-na-Lairige, and from 
Coire Fionn, near Killin, both in Mid-Perth. The involucre is less 
floccose and the margins of the phyllaries less markedly white, and 
the Coire Fionn plant is more glandular, but otherwise these 
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sheets, partly from numerous Skye specimens ; and the name is 
given in memory of one who not only was the first known collector 
of this ne ~~ paid much attention to the genus during many 
years before , 
Boswell Linton. Stem 6-16 in. high, a a rough 
with bulbous bases of long white hairs, sinuous, e above, 
hardly branched. Leaves ovate ane or narrow ovate-a redler ey 
thinly hairy b , glabrous above, ciliate with numerous soft hairs, 
with 
silkily hairy. Stem-leaf when present shortly petioled, ovate- 
acuminate to lanceolate, dentate, but frequently absent, and com- 
monly so in the Orkney specimens. Heads of moderate size in 
and a lands near their — floccose, cota at the margin 
and a vd subulate, very obtuse. Ligules glabrous Svea: "Styles 
livid yellow, often only slightly ‘aianetoutad: Pappus pale brown 
from “es first. It may be added that on = cimens collected by one 
of us in Orkney, Dr. Lindeberg (to whom it was sent by M 
ae remarked, ‘ Mihi ignotum. oui itulis foliisque dis- 
ae murorum L., var. ciliatum Almq. Rocks, Strome Ferry, 
Wi Limestone rocks by the road between Buxton and 
Miller’s Dale, *Derbyshire. It has also been sent us unnamed from 
the orale reser Hills, *Dumbartonshire, collected by Mr. L. ape — 
pulcherrimum F, J. Hanb. A beautiful plant from 
Glyn Neath, *Glamorgan, we put to this variety, though it differs 
in the shape of the base of the leaf—Subsp. H. sarcophyllum 
Stenstrém. In some saaiodahe about Black’s Hope and Midlaw 
Burn, near Moffat, Dumfriesshire. — Var. micracladium Dahlstedt. 
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