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veined and- o^laucous beneath hairy art both sides, lowest nan-owed 

 into winged atiricled petioles, interm. pinched above their base, 

 uppermost 1. cordate-lanceolate, heads in a corymbose panicle, 

 ped. short lax very floccose and setose, inv. cylindiical rather 

 floccose very setose, miter phyll. few much the shortest, inner all 

 abo%it equal and blunt, stjdes with dark hairs, fr. pale. — St. 1 — 3 

 ft.high, rather rigid, usually hairy. Pan. leafy below. Heads 

 .smaU. Pappus whitish. — JRiver-sides in the North. P. Vn. 

 VIII. E. S. I. 



l^H. Borreri (Syme) ; like Sp. 27 but 1. fewer smaller upwards 

 nearly oval, lowest 1 abruptly contracted below, interm. 1. not 

 pinched above the base. H. denticulatttm Borr. Herb. — ^Hare- 

 head wood ? P. VII. VHL] 



28. S. stric'tian (Fr.) ; st. leafy, I. sessile oblong-lanceolate 

 denticulate glaucous beneath, lowest lanceolate much narrowed 

 below, uppermost I. rounded below scarcely clasping, heads irre- 

 gularly corymbose, ped. straight floccose scarcely setose, inv. 

 elliptic thinhj floccose setose and hairy, phyll. irregularly imbri- 

 cate blunt, outermost rather acute, styles -svith dai-k hairs, fr. 

 fuscous.— H. denticulatmn E. B. 2122.— St. 1 — 3 ft. high, 

 slightly hairy. L. broad, not am-icled, mostly with bulbous 

 hairs beneath. Heads thicker and paler than those of JS. pre- 

 naitthoides. Phj'U. paJe-edged, not in two distinct ranks. Pappus 

 reddish.— Mountain glens. P. VII. VHL E. S I. 



tt Flowers glabrous at the tips. 



29. If. umhelldtum (L.) ; st. leaiy, I. all linear or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate narrowed below sessile net-veined, heads in an umbellate 

 coryinb, top of ped. floccose, turbinate-based, ini: uniformly dark 

 green glabrous, phyll. bluiit with recurved points, styles yellow. — 

 St. 1—4 ft. high, rigid, hairy below. L. usually all alike, or 

 upper rather broad and rounded at the base. Outer phyll. often 

 ven' small, slender, acute. Inv. very rarely straw-coloured, 

 rai-ely -with a few white hairs. Pappus whitish. — Sandy and 

 stony places. P. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 



30. S. crocdtum (Fr.) ; st. leafy, 1. oblong or narrowly lan- 

 ceolate sessile -with a h-oarl base falsely S-veined, lower 1. nar^ 

 rowed downwards, heads subcorymbose, branches nearly simple, 

 ped. floccose, inv. very broad and blunt below subglabrous, phyll. 

 blackish blunt adpressed, styles yello-wish with fuscous harrs. — 

 21. imilowles Tausch. — Very variable. St. Ij — 4 ft. high, rigid. 

 L. toothed or nearly entire ; lower often narrowed very gradu- 

 ally but again slightly enlarged at their base. Inv. rarely pilose. 

 Inner phyll. sometimes pale-edged. — Mountain districts. P. 

 Vll. VIII. E. S. I. 



31. H. corymhdsum (Fr.) ; st. very leafy, 1. ovate or lanceolate 

 dentate about their middle net-reined, lowest 1. narrowed into 



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