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ends or cordate below denticulate or entire." — Woods and rocks. 

 /3. Canlochen, Forfarshire. P. VI. VII. 



22. H. ccEsium (Fr.) ; csesious or dull green, rt.-l. ovate or 

 lanceolate rounded or narrowed below irregularly dentate-serrate 

 with patent or ascending teeth, petioles slender, st.-l. or 1 

 placed low, st. few-headed with straight-based ped., inv. rounded 

 below floccose hairy slightly setose, phyll. bluntish inner ones 

 acute incumbent, styles slightly livid. — H. murorum Sm., E. B. 

 2082.— 12 — 18 in. high. Young heads roundish. Fits, bright 

 yellow. Phyll. not cuspidate ; inner very slender, pointed. Root- 

 stock long. L. nearly glabrous above, coriaceous, not fringed 

 with coarse hairs ; innermost acute. St.-l. not stalked, nar- 

 rowed below. — H. obtusifolium (Backh.) ; yellowish- green, origi- 

 nal rt.-l. ovate rounded at both ends entire, petioles densely 

 villose, st.-l. 1 stalked ovate-lanceolate, inv. ventricose becoming 

 truncate below, phyll. acuminate, buds pilose at the tip ; is pro- 

 bably a variety, and is found at Clova. — Mountains. P. VII. 



viii. 



23. H. stelligerum (Froel.) ; ashy-green, rt.-l. ovate or oval 

 blunt or acutish with small teeth below floccose on both sides 

 narrowed into long petioles, st.-l. few large i-clasping, st. sub- 

 corymbose floccose throughout, ped. straight-based, inv. ovate 

 below floccose setose hairy, phyll. acuminate incumbent, styles 

 rather livid. — li — 2 ft. high. Fits, bright yellow. L. rosulate, 

 persistent ; original spathulate ; innermost acutish. Petioles 

 rather slender and woolly. St.-l. stalked ; uppermost sessile. — 

 Alpine streams on Grampian Mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



24. H. vulgatum (Fr.) ; green or glaucous, 1. oblong or lan- 

 ceolate often with patent or forward teeth on lower half, rt.-l. 

 narrowed into petiole, st.-l. often many all or uppermost sessile, 

 heads panicled or subcorymbose, inv. and straight ascending ^erf. 

 floccose setose with few hairs, phyll. equally attenuate acutish in- 

 cumbent, styles livid. — H. sylvaticum Sm., E. B. 2031. — Very 

 variable. 1 — 3 ft. high. Rt.-l. persistent, st.-l. few ; or rt.-l. 

 few and evanescent, st.-l. many. The typical plant has panicled 

 heads cylindrical when young, glaucescent 1. purplish beneath, 

 persistent rt.-l., few st.-l., greenish inv. — H. maculatum (Sm.) 

 E. B. 2121. is aform with evanescent rt.-l., many and broad st.- 

 1., and imperfectly corymbose heads. Many other forms are 

 named, but they defy definition. — Woods, banks, walls. P. 

 VII.— IX. 



**** Pseudo-accipitrince. Inv. subglabrous. Rt.-l. often 

 forming a winter rosette but rarely present with the flowers. 



25. H. gothicum (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 

 tate at the middle, rt.-l. shortly stalked usually evanescent, lower 



