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whose name I am glad to have the opportunity of associating with 

 a Hieracium from that part of the country whose flora he has done 

 so much to investigate. The Welsh plant differs from H. bifidum 

 Kit., according to Fries {Epicrisis, p. 93), in having ciliate ligules, 

 setose involucres, darkened styles, and no stellate hairs beneath the 

 leaves. 



H. Carenorum, n. sp. This plant was found by Mr. J. Cosmo 

 Melvill and myself, in 1888, near Cashil Dhu, Sutherland, since 

 when I have had it growing in my garden, where it maintains a 

 very distinctive habit. Stem about a foot high, slightly floccose 

 with few scattered white hairs; peduncles floccose, minutely setose 

 with few scattered hairs. Stem-leaf usually one, almost glabrous 

 above, with stellate down on the under surface, and simple white 

 hairs on the margin and midrib. Radical leaves 6-8 ovate-lanceo- 

 late, decurrent at the base, with small acute teeth ; clothed with 

 few scattered white hairs above, more on the under side (which is 

 of a lighter colour), especially on the midrib-margin. Petioles 

 rather long, and snaggy with white hairs. Involucres narrow; 

 inner phyllaries pale green, with lighter margins (tips purplish in 

 cultivation) ; outer appressed, small ; all clothed with white black- 

 based hairs, and numerous very minute, long, yellow-headed setae, 

 the outer and middle phyllaries having floccose margins. Buds 

 long and narrow. Styles yellow. Ligules glabrous at the tips, 

 slightly pilose beneath. The plant does not appear to be known in 

 Scandinavia. 



H. Schmidtii Tausch., var. devoniense, n. var., was sent to me 

 from near Countisbury and other localities in North Devon by Mr. 

 W. P. Hiern, in 1889, and from West Gloucester by Dr. W. A. 

 Shoolbred, in 1891. It differs from the type not only in general 

 appearance, but in having narrower phyllaries, which are clothed 

 with finer and more numerous hairs, but are not purplish at the tips. 



H. eubicundum F. J. Hanb., var. Boswelli (Linton). Both 

 Dahlstedt and Elfstrand consider that this plant should not be 

 specifically separated from H. rubicundum, and in this view the Rev. 

 E. F. Linton (its describer) and I concur. 



H. Oreades Fr., var. subglabratum, n.var. Careful exami- 

 nation and comparison with specimens from Scandinavia show that 

 the plant from Caithness which has heretofore been called H. 

 Oreades Fr. is a new and distinct variety, differing from the type in 

 having smaller and fewer root-leaves, more setose involucres, and 

 almost glabrous stems. We appear to have this variety only in 

 Britain. 



The name H. Lintoni is for the present withdrawn. 



cimens I have of this were gathered in the summers of 188^ and 

 1888, in the extreme north, specially about Betty Hill and the 

 Naver, Sutherlandshire. The clothing of the involucres differs 

 from the type in being more hairy and less setose, the radical 

 leaves are usually more strongly toothed, often broader and of a 

 more upright habit, and closely approach those of H. nitidum; 

 in fact, it is difficult in this region to draw a strong boundary line 

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