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more regular teeth, rather broader phyllaries with more numerous 

 and more robust glands. 



Herefordshire : Lyon shall, 1891 ; Pembridge, 1902. Carnarvon : 

 near Bangor, 1891. 



H. conspersum Dahlst. C. xi. (1899), No. 76. H. flocculosum 

 Dahlst. Bidrag. til Syd. Sver. Hier. iii. (under H. gothicum Fr.), 

 178 ; Hierac. Exsicc. iii. No. 53. Stem 16-30 inches high, 

 glabrous. Basal leaves 1-3, often disappearing before flowering, 

 slightly toothed, inner acute ; stem-leaves 4-6, narrow cuspidate 

 acute with subulate teeth. Panicle nearly simple or branched. 

 Peduncles finely tomentose, nearly epilose and eglandular. Heads 

 rather large, dark green, with base rounded at first then truncate. 

 Phyllaries lanceolate epilose sparingly floccose senescent glandular 

 with many dark glands. Ligule glabrous. Style dark. 



Near Coniston, Lake Lancashire, 1905, W. R. Linton I 



H. scanicum Dahlst. Bidrag. iii. (under H. pinnatijidum honnr.), 

 89 ; Exsicc. ii. Nos. 73, 74, and 75. " Very near H. irriguum Fr., 

 from which it differs (as described loc. cit.) in the long white hairs 

 of the stem, the broader oval sub-entire or less toothed leaves, the 

 rather thicker heads, narrower phyllaries, and styles more nearly 

 pure yellow. It can scarcely be held as anything more than a 

 slight variety of H. irriguum Fr." — W. JR. Linton. 



Distribution general. North Devon, North Hants, Surrey, 

 West Gloucester, Monmouth, Hereford, Glamorgan, Brecon, Rad- 

 nor, Denbigh, Merioneth, Carnarvon, Derby, Stafford, West Yorks. 



H. anfractum Fr. subsp. cacuminatum Dahlst. Bidrag iii. 151 ; 

 C. xv. (1903), Nos. 57, 58. Stem tall robust softly pilose below, 

 sparingly flocculose. Leaves dull green ; basal oval to oval-elliptic 

 with broad sharp teeth, inner ovate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 

 subulate-dentate or serrate, rapidly or gradually narrowing to long 

 petioles. Stem-leaves 4-6, decreasing, lower petioled, ovate, ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, subulate-dentate or serrate-dentate, pilose 

 below, margin ciliate. Panicle contracted, with distant lower and 

 approximate upper branches, all erect-patent. Peduncles short 

 floccose, with slender scattered glands under the head. Heads 

 rather broad, darkish green, truncate below. Phyllaries rather 

 narrow linear-lanceolate subacute, sparingly flocculose especially 

 on the margin, with rather numerous blackish slender glands. 

 Ligules glabrous, styles dull. 



British plants attributed to this species are abundant and 

 generally distributed ; a great deal of the material usually placed 

 under H. sciaphUum Uechtr. being now placed under H. cacumi- 

 natum Dahlst. It must, however, be said that most of the English 

 plants differ from Scandinavian types in having greyer heads, with 

 much more numerous glands, and senescent phyllaries. The 

 panicle also is often wide-spreading ; but this is the case in some 

 Scandinavian examples of H. cacuminatum. Plants very close to 



the foreign type occur near Bangor, Carnarvon (1899, 1904) ; also 

 in Brecon and Hereford. 



H. sciaphUum Uechtr. differs from H. cacuminatum Dahlst. in 



