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FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA NEW TO BRITAIN 





By Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S. 



In continuation of the short papers appearing in this Journal, 

 vol. xxvi. p. 204, and vol. xxvii. p. 73, I will endeavour very briefly 

 to summarise the result of further investigations of the genus 

 Hieracium made during the last three years. I had hoped on the 

 present occasion to have been able definitely to treat of all the 

 forms which the patient work of many investigators has brought to 

 light, and to have added a list of the British Hieracia systematically 

 arranged and brought completely up to date. This idea, however, 

 is of too ambitious a nature to carry out at the present moment, 

 and to delay publishing the results already attained until finality is 

 reached, might mean the almost indefinite withholding of information 

 that may be of material assistance to many collectors during the 

 coming summer. I shall hope before long to be able to supplement 

 the present notes with further particulars on the forms still sub 

 judice, and to add a systematic catalogue of the British Hieracia, 

 complete so far as our present knowledge extends. 



The districts visited during the summers of 1889, 1890, and 

 1891 were, for the most part, new ground to me. In the year 1889 

 I made my first acquaintance with the Great Doward and some of 

 the hills of Central Wales, in company with the Bev. Augustin Ley, 

 whose previous explorations and consequent knowledge of these 

 parts greatly tended to the economy of our time. Later on I joined 

 the Rev. E. S. Marshall in a tour among the mountains of Argyle 

 and West Perth — Kingshouse, Inveroran, and Crianlarich being our 

 centres of work. The following year I visited the Rev. W. H, 

 Purchas, in whose company I had the advantage of exploring 

 Dovedale for the first time, and of seeing growing several well- 

 marked and interesting forms, with which, through his kindness, 

 I had been familiar in the dried state for several years, and had also 

 cultivated in the garden. 



Later on I again joined the Rev, E. S. Marshall, this time on 

 an expedition to West Sutherland, undertaken chiefly with a view 

 of exploring the limestone around Inchnadamph. A day or two on 

 the return journey was spent at Tain, in East Ross, followed by 

 another visit to the Perthshire Hills, with Crianlarich as our centre. 

 Last year's operations commenced with a visit to Cheddar, the 

 interesting limestone flora of which is so well known to all, followed, 

 after a short interval, by a visit to the somewhat similar country 

 around Settle. Thanks to the hospitality of the Misses Thompson, 

 and their intimate acquaintance with the whole of the surrounding 

 country, it was here possible to accomplish much important work, 

 and to clear up most of the puzzles that remained unsolved from 

 previous visits to this extraordinary district. 



From Settle 1 went direct to the West of Ireland, Sligo being 

 selected as my first stopping place. A few days of unusually fine 

 weather served for visits to Ben Bulben, Ben Weiskin, and other 

 mountains of this range, after which I joined Mr. H. C. Hart in a 



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