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FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA NEW TO BRITAIN. 



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



(Continued from p. 170.) 



Hieracium lima, n. sp —My attention was first drawn to the 

 Cheddar form of this singularly rohust and striking species when 

 looking through some of the older British herbarif. ? On visTt ng 

 Settle m July 1888, a very similar plant was found sparingly of 

 the Giggleswick Scars. Though surrounded by H. oZoni H 



Z7'H™L%f d \ H ' P^ti* ? ri ° US f0rmS ' H - diaphanoide^ 



and H, . anglteum , to which latter it appeared to be most nearly 

 £&„* W &™^J^*^™1 * J** ^ any of tTIse 



species 



regards size, robust habit and arcuation of the peiuXTic" 

 it differs conspicuously from that species in having pure vellow 

 sty lea, a very grey densely hairy involucre, and leaves felted on 

 both surfaces with stiff curved white hairs. Very frequently there 

 is an entire absence of cauline leaves, excepting a mere bract where 

 the stem branches. Last year I had the opportunity of observing 

 the plant in great quantity both at Cheddar and Settle, and the 

 form from the latter place in cultivation in the garden, where 



iLnTf ■? I lT eSS ■ whatever to H. anylicum. Although I have 

 thought it best to unite the Cheddar and Settle forms under one 



betweenT^ti 2 flf^f" e ^s such important distinctions 

 the Y^WU, i ^t 1 fe c f lij necessarv *o g^e a varietal name to 

 ovttl and nL P J ant «£ H ' *"" (C , heddar > the radical lea ™s are 



H. lima yar. Brigantum, n. var.— Occurs on most of the lime- 

 stone scars about Settle. The leaves are dark green, more po 2d 

 and gradually narrowed into short petioles than in the tyne whilst 

 the surface-hairs are of a less rigid nature. The heads are Wr 

 m number, more robust and softly shaggy with grey hairs a^id 

 singularly globose and truncate at the base g 7 ' ™ 



whe^hs'hed ^m^I ma f e by M , iSS Li8ter 0f both forms ™»- 



characters than T*?- *! ? glanC . e a b f ter idea of t^se important 

 characters tnan the brief description that can be given in a naner 



Rev E 1S p 2il 8en 1 Jj 41 - Cheddar plant have bfen drfed b P y tl 



Mils Thompson Of £' W ' F ' "K** and ° f the Settle V^t by 



writes "Zma not^TT 86nt t0 Scandi * a ™, Mr. Lindeberg 

 Sine caSLZ ' T^ 1 ?*?- 6 1 f lota ' cra ssitudine caulis, mag- 

 nitu^nie^apitulorum, pilositate hgularum dentium, etc. insignis.'' 



Hei^uTgaTe'red t 5rf Babl°i thiS *?' *j** C ™ h ^* 



occurred in considerable nnanHtv o«^ „ « siate. ±ne plant 



aiueictuie quantity, and a fine series was secured for 



