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23. n.JloceuUsum (Baokh.) ; ashy-green, rt.-l. ovate or oval 

 blunt or acutish with small teeth below Jloccose on both sides 

 narrowed into long petioles, st.-l. fexv large J-clasping, st. sub- 

 corymbose^oecose throughout, ped. straight-based, inv. ovate 

 below floccose setose hairy, phyll. acuminate incumbent, styles 

 rather livid. — Sy. E. B. 848. H. stelUgerum Baokh. (not. Froe'l.). 

 —St. 14 — 2 ft. high. Fl. 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. vulgdtum (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 siibcorymbose, inv. and straight, ascendiug^erf. 

 floccose setose with few hairs, phyll. equally attenuate acutish 

 incumbent, styles livid. — H. sylvaticum Sm. E. B. 2031. — 

 Very variable, 1 — 3 feet high. The more common plant has 

 panicled heads cylindrical when young, glaucescent 1. purplish 

 beneath, persistent rt.-l., few st.-l., greenish inv. ; but some- 

 times the St. is very leafy, heads panicled, rt.-l. evanescent. — M, 

 maculatum (Sm.) has few broad purple-based st.-l., and imper- 

 fectly corymbose heads. The spots on the leaves are not con- 

 stant : in shade they are absent. — Sy. E. B. 849. Many other 

 forms are named, but they defy definition. — Woods, banks, walls. 

 P. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 



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

 forming a winter rosette but rarely present with the flowers. 



25. H. goth'icum (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 

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

 st.-l. often stalked and aggregate, upper st.-l. sessile, heads few 

 subcorymbose, ped. rigid erect slightly flocco.se, inv. roundly 

 ventricose subglabrous or slightly hairy, phyU. darh green hroad 

 blunt incumbent, style yellow with fuscous hairs. — Sy. E. B. 

 851. — Very variable, I — 4 ft. high, rigid, rarely much branched. 

 Kt.-l. very rarely persistent. L. all similar, firm, narrowed at 

 both ends, sometimes very narrow. Heads large, cylindrical 

 when young. Inv. with few brownish hairs and very slightly 

 floccose or subglabrous. — ^. latifolium (Backh.) ; st. branched, 

 1. broadly lanceolate, style nearly wholly yellow. — ^Heathy or 

 grassy subalpine places. P. VII. — IX. ' E. 8. 1. 



26. S. Dewdri TSy.) ; I. oblong-lanceolate denticulate, lowest 

 oval with winged stalks, upper I. ovate-lanceolate ^-clasping, 

 ped, slightly floccose and setose scarcely hairy, heads in lax 

 panicle, invol. subcylindrical obconic slightly hairy and setcse, 



