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and variety occur in Breconshire. The variety, however, is at 
best a slight one. Occasionally the leaves are unspotted. 
- SPARSIFOLIUM Lindeb. Type very rare. Brecon: II. Haffes 
Glen, Cellwen, 1898. Not recorded for Yorks. 
Var. placerophyllum Dahlst. River-glens, rather rare in both 
counties. II. Hepste Glen; Upper Tawe and Haffes Glens. 
III. On the Usk at Sennibridge ; on the Yrfon, near Llangam- 
march. IV. Abergwesyn. 1. Ribblehead. 2. Chapel-le-Dale ; 
Dent Dale. 3. On the Upper Wharfe, near Buckden. Gayle Beck, 
near Hawes; Prof. Percival! Leaves less parallel-sided, more 
narrowing to base than in var. grandescens Dahlst. 
ar. grandescens Dahlst. Ags the last; rare in both counties. 
II. Upper Tawe Glen; Nedd Glen, 2. On the Rothay above 
Sedbergh. On the Lune, Sedberg; A. Wilson! 
wa Ley. Brecon, very rare. II. Cwm Haffes; Upper 
Nedd Glen. This remarkable plant has not yet been detected 
except in West Breco 
way-bank; ime 5 
Hepste, and Nedd Glens; head of Glyn Tarell, and on Craig 
Gledsiau and Craig Du; Upper Tawe Glen. Recurs in the Elan 
Valley, Radnor. 
HH.  TRripentatum Fr. Brecon. Type rare. IT. Roadside, 
Abercrawnon, Usk Valley. III. Llyswen. Langwith, near York; 
Herb. Backhouse! | 
ak acrifolium Dahlst. Brecon, widely dispersed in the 
river-glens, occasionally on railway-banks. “II. Head of Glyn 
Torpantau on the Taf Fechan; railway-bank, 
Glyn Collwng ; Mehasein Glen, near Brecon. III. On the Wye 
at Erwood; Sennibridge, on the Usk. IV. On the Yrfon at Aber- 
gwesyn; on the os Lowy at Trawsnant and Nant Fanog ; on 
orks ? 
_ Var. DECIPIENS, yar. nov. Pseudophyllopodous: stem slishtl 
hairy at base, tall, many-leaved. Tears pre y and 
sharply tri-polydentate. Heads large; phyllaries dark green with 
tered , rather numerous glands. - Style 
rk. 
Placed under H. tridentatum Fr. on account i 
E of its pseudo- 
payllopodous habit. Easily distinguished from type by the large 
eads, and dark phyllaries quite differently clothed. “From var. 
arg 
a by the taller, more elegant habit. 
-R. Linton as a form under ‘H. rigidum Hartm. var. Friesii 
