﻿232 NOTES ON BRITISH HIEEACIA. 



H. cantianum, n. sp. This plant was found by the Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall in Hangley Woods, near Cranbrook, West Kent, in 1889. 

 I sent it to Dr. Lindeberg four years ago. He wrote : — " Foliorum 

 forma, dentura vestimentoque (floccoso: tenuo quidem atque in- 

 conspicuo, at ubique praesente), etc., tantopere diversum, ut propria 

 species facile habeatur." It differs from any of the forms of rigida 

 known to Dr. Elfstrand, and is distinguished by its high stem 

 (29 in.) with numerous (14-17) leaves, which are comparatively 

 short, broad, blunt -pointed, and curiously- toothed ; the upper leaves 

 are a little clasping, with broad bases, the lower petioled and de- 

 current. The involucre is clothed with minute yellow setae, few 

 simple hairs, and floccose down. The styles are pure yellow. 



H. dovrense Fr., var. Hethlandle, n. var., found by Mr. W. H. 

 Beeby in Shetland in 1891. Dr. Elfstrand remarks :— " It is 

 dovrense, and nearer to dovrense var. humidorum Almq. than any 

 other. It seems to me to differ from typical humidorum in the 

 following points. The peduncles are nearly without hairs, the 

 involucres rather larger, the phyllaries broader and more floccose, 

 and, as far as I can see, not violet-coloured at the tips, the stem is 

 a little more floccose, and the leaves not so glabrous." 



H. dovrense Fr., var. spectabile Marshall. See Journ. Bot. 

 1894, p. 216. 



H. strictum Fr., vars. reticulatum and angustum (Lindeb.), are 

 now regarded by many Scandinavian botanists as varieties or sub- 

 species of H. strictum rather than distinct species, and in this view 

 I fully concur. 



the var. reticulatum. The phyllaries, however, are much narrower, 

 acute, and with paler green margins, more floccose, and less setose. 

 The leaves, especially above, are floccose. It has been found in 

 Perth and Argyle by the Rev. E. S. Marshall, Dr. F. B. White, 

 and Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. It is Syme's " strictum" from the 

 Crook of Devon, Kinross ; and from the shore west of Pegul Burn, 

 Hoy, Orkney, &c. 



H. aoratum Fr., var. thulense, n. var. This was found in 

 , Shetland by Mr. W. H. Beeby in 1889 and 1891. It differs from 

 the type in its fewer, more equally broad and more clasping stem- 

 leaves, and in its broader and more floccose phyllaries. It is an 

 exceedingly distinct-looking form, though Dr. Elfstrand concurs 

 with me that it may be best treated as a variety of auratum Fr. 



H. boreale Fr., var. calvatum, n. var. A high moorland form 

 found by the Rev. A. Ley by the Llwgwy stream, and at Llyn 

 Ogwen, Carnarvonshire. The plant is from 15 in. to 2 ft. high, 

 very glabrous, and in general facies more like H. gothicum than H. 

 boreale. Leaves few, with a tendency to crowding at the base. 

 Heads few and large ; involucres very dark. Dr. Lindeberg wrote 

 on a wild specimen that I sent to him in 1888 : — "Forma insignis, 

 species quasi nova, inter H. Friesii et commutatum media, ab utroque 

 certe distincta." Cultivation, however, in this case clearly shows 

 that it should be treated as a variety only of H. boreale. 



H. boreale x sciaphilum. This plant was gathered on a railway- 



