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6. H. calendulifidrum (Backh.) ; deep green, st. usually 1- 

 headed hairy floccose, rt.-l. broadly ovate-spathulate blunt apicu- 



. late sharply toothed hairy on both sides narrowing into broadly 

 winged petioles, st.-l. very small slender, buds nodding, inv. 

 truncate below shaggy with rather silky black-based hairs, 

 phyll. many linear-attenuate, outer phyll. lax, styles livid. — 

 Sy. E. B. 824.— St. 6—14 in. high. St.-l. few. Head most 

 usually solitary, very large. Youngest 1. sometimes rather 

 acute. Original 1. nearly circular. Nearly allied to H. eximium. 

 — Lofty mountains. Lochnagar. Clova. P. VII. VIII. S. 



** Nigricantes. Inv. villose or hairy. Phyll. adpressed, or 

 few outermostlax. Fl. nearly hairless externally, minutely 

 pilose or subglabrous at the tips. — S. nigrescens Hook. 



t St. short with 1 or few heads. 



7. H. gradlen'tum (Backh.) ; green, st. usually 1 -headed hairy 

 floccose, rt.-l. lanceolate or o&fo«^-lanoeolate narrowed into pe- 

 tioles, st.-l. few large narrow-lanceolate attenuate below, inv. 

 ventricose rounded below shaggy with black soft hairs setose, 

 phyll. few broad acuminate adpressed with floccose tips outermost 

 lax, styles livid. — 8y. JE. B. 828. H. alpinum var. melanocepha- 

 lum Fries, not Bab., nor II. melanocephalum Tausch. — St. 6 — 10 

 in. high, hairy and floccose, with straight simple diverging 

 branches and many heads when under cultivation ; st.-l usually 

 2 or more. L. broad, narrowed gradually below; original 1. 

 rovmdish. Petioles sometimes slightly winged. Heads usually 

 solitary, rather large ; fl. bright yellow, nearly or quite glabrous 

 on the back. — Lofty mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



8. H. globdsum (Backh.) ; glaucous or green, st. few-headed 

 floccose, rt.-l. oftouaie or ovate-lanceolate subacute glabrous above , 

 entire or dentate narrowed into petioles, inv. rounded below ulti- 

 mately globose greenish-black with short black-based hairs, p/iyll. 

 many attenuate acute adpressed, styles yellow. — Sy. E. B. 829. — 

 St. 6 — 12 in. high, usually 1-headed, rarely branching even 

 from near the base, leafless or with few narrow bractlike leaves. 

 Original 1. blunt. Innermost 1. sometimes acute. Petioles 

 short sometimes slightly winged. Buds globose. Fl. bright 

 yellow. — Cairngorm Mountains. P. VH. VIII. S. 



tt St. frequently lengthened and branched with several heads. 



9. II. nigres'cena (Willd.) ; green, rt.-l. ovate or lanceolate 

 coarsely and irregularly dentate in their lower half hairy with 

 slender petioles, st. simple or branched with few heads and few 



