Botanical Notes. 137 



The varieties appear to be caused by its place of growth. The fruit 

 is always, as far as my observations go, sessile when the plant in- 

 habits deep water, such as that of the Welsh lakes and rivers, and 

 the leaves become slightly spathulate if its top reaches the surface. 

 The varieties with stalked fruit grow in shallow water (a,) or on 

 wet mud not often flooded (6.) Var. a is a peculiarly slender and 

 delicate plant, and very small in all its parts ; in b the internodes 

 are much shortened, the leaves small, ovate, or shortly spathulate, 

 and the stem rooting at many of the joints. The linear leaves are 

 usually emarginate, and those which reach the surface of the water 

 have generally three nerves. 



Var. /3. is the most common form. I have noticed it in St Leonard's 

 Forest, Sussex, in lakes and rivers near Snowdon and in Anglesea ; 

 a. occurs at Caernarvon, and near the Mona Inn, Anglesea; b. I 

 have only seen near Bethws Garmon, Caernarvonshire. 



Hieracium, n. s. ? — Scyons very short and densely leafy. Leaves 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute or rounded, entire, beset with nume- 

 rous long silky hairs on both surfaces, each hair thicker towards its 

 base, and springing from a small dark-coloured bulb, which is more 

 apparent on the upper surface, on account of the absence of the dense 

 white wool with which the under surface is quite covered. Scape 

 1- flowered, leafless, covered with numerous long white silky hairs 

 with a black base, and intermixed with them a good many small black 

 short ones, each bearing a gland at its top. Flower large, pale-yel- 

 low ; involucrum very like that of H. alpinum, its bracteee in two 

 rows, with a few lax smaller ones at the base, each bractea broadly 

 linear, lanceolate, acute, covered with dense white wool, and bearing 

 very numerous long silky hairs with a black base, these latter not 

 extending to the margins. 



This plant differs very much in habit from H. pilosella, and may 

 be distinguished, at first sight, by its very short and leafy scyons, 

 much longer leaves, larger flowers, and copious silky pubescence. 



In the three latter characters it almost exactly resembles H. al- 

 pinum. It also closely approaches H. pilosellseforme, Fl. Helv. v. 

 72, but differs in the shape and peculiar pubescence of its involucral 

 bracteee. 



The only British station for this plant, with which I am acquaint- 

 ed, is Craig Breidden, Montgomeryshire, where it grows upon the 

 crags of a lofty precipice. This station is referred by Dr Hooker, 

 from an inspection of my specimens, to H. alpinum in his Brit. Fl. 

 ed. 3, p. 348. 



Taraxacum dcvs-leonis, Desf. — As it is probable that all the Eu- 



