il8 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Pjn-enees, Apennines, Norway. Most of Europe (rare in Britain), 

 Siberia, Persia. 



Hieracium intybaceum All. {H. albidum Vill.). (Plate XIX.) 



A very distinct species, covered with viscid, glandular hairs and 

 smelling of musk. Stem 6-12 inches high, leafy, usually branched. 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate, with wavy or coarsely-toothed margins, 

 the lowermost narrowed at the base ; upper leaves sessile, or more 

 or less amplexicaul. Capitula solitary on each branch. Flowers 

 pale yellow, soon fading. Achenes sometimes brown and some- 

 times black. 



Stony gullies and steep shady places at about 5000 feet, chiefly 

 on granite soil, cis near Le Planet above Argentifire and higher 

 towards the Col de Balme ; very local. August, September. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, from the 

 Maritime Alps to Carinthia ; Bavaria. 



This is a suitable Hawkweed to introduce into English rockworks, 

 and we believe Messrs. R. Wallace and Co. of Colchester will 

 shortly have it estabhshed in their nurseries from true seed from 

 Savoy. 



It is quite impossible in a book of this character to describe more 

 than a very few of the most important of the many Hieracia found 

 in the lower Alps. Nor can there be much advantage in giving a 

 bare list of the innumerable species, many of them difficult to 

 distinguish, which frequent the Alpine and sub-alpine regions. An 

 up-to-date arrangement of those found in Switzerland alone can be 

 found in the Flore de la Suisse, by Schinz and Keller, while Gremli's 

 Swiss Flora (at present out of print in the English edition) also gives 

 a good account of them. > 



CAMPANULACE.E 



Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, without stipules. Flowers 

 usually blue or white, either distinct or collected into heads with 

 a general involucre. Calyx with a free border of 5 teeth or lobes, 

 sometimes merely bristles. Corolla regular or irregular, with 5 

 lobes. Stamens 5, inserted at base of corolla. Anthers distinct, op 

 rarely cohering in a ring round the style. Style single. Ovary and 

 capsule inferior, divided into 2-5 cells. 



A rather large family spread over temperate regions, and crossing 

 the tropics in mountainous districts. 



Jasione L. 

 Flowers blue, in terminal, hemispherical heads, surrounded by 

 an involucre of several bracts. Calyx reduced to 5 very narrow 

 lobes. Corolla regular, deeply divided into 5 narrow segments. 

 Anthers united at the base into a ring round the long, club-shaped 

 style. Capsules many-seeded. 



