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drooping peduncles, occasionally with long slender branches from 

 the base, each terminating in a single drooping head. Leaves deep 

 green above ; with numerous minute white granular spots, paler 

 beneath ; with scattered white hairs or nearly glabrous. Eoot- 

 leaves oval or lanceolate-oval ; acute ; with very irregular sharp 

 teeth, sometimes \ an inch long, spreading or pointing forwards, 

 entire towards the point : original leaves broad, very blunt j all 

 narrowed more or less suddenly into long slender or slightly winged 

 hairy, or almost silky, petioles. Stem-leaves minute, bract-hke : 

 lower one sometimes lanceolate or linear-subulate, entire or with 

 few large teeth ; narrowed into a slender or broadly winged petiole. 

 ■Peduncles more or less elongated, often hairy with stellate down, 

 and densely setose near the top. Buds ovate. Involucres usually 

 broad, rounded at the base, very dark with black-based short 

 brittle denticulate hairs, and numerous black setse, intermingled 

 with minute yellowish glands ; occasionally pale green and with 

 whitish hairs (on Cairntoul). Phyllaries linear-attenuate, acute 

 or cuspidate ; sometimes slightly acuminate ; innermost usually 

 very attenuate ; few outermost short, slender, linear, and rather 

 lax. ' Florets golden yellow, obscurely pilose at the tips. Stifles 

 golden yellow, or (very rarely) faintly livid. 



Var. microcephahim has simple stems, with 2 or 3 shorter and 

 more erect peduncles ; or sometimes (in the Cumberland form) 

 many (3 to 9) single headed stems rising from the base. Leaves 

 more evenly and coarsely dentate, or nearly entire. Peduncles 

 thickened upwards. Involucres urceolate, more ovate at the 

 base. Phyllaries more frequently acuminate. Styles more or 

 less livid. 



H. chryscmfham may be easily recognised in. the wild state by its 

 large (usually drooping) heads and golden yellow florets. I cannot 

 regard it as any form, of the H. atratum of Fries, that plant being 

 clearly described in his Monograph as having " evenly dentate 

 leaves, acuminate phyUaries, and styles with. fuscous hairs;" while 

 the typical form of JJ. cTvryswnthim is conspicuous for having more 



