86' 



BRITISH HIEKACIA. 



irregularly toothed leaves ttan any other species of the genus ; also 

 for its very attenuate acute phyllaries and golden yeUow styles. 

 Tries refers the "vm. microoephalvm" to his S. atratum, and the 

 sligh,tly livid styles and less dentate leaves (which, occur in the 

 Cumberland and Loch "Wharral plant) render its attachment to 

 H. ekryscmfhvm somewhat doubtful. Still I do not find characters 

 sufficiently distinct and permanent to induce me to separateit from 

 the above. Under cultwation H. chrysanihum branches excessively, 

 but otherwise retaias the general appearance which it presents on 

 the Highland mountains. 



13. H. CERINTHOIDES. Glaucous green. Stem with few leaves 

 and few heads near the top. £oot-leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 apiculate or acuminate, denticulate, hairy beneath, nar- 

 rowed into long shaggy winged petioles. Stem-lea/oes clasping, 

 ovate, acuminate. Involucres veutricose, rounded at the 

 I)ase, hairy, setose. Fhyllwries acuminate, or attenuate and 

 acute. Florets pilose at the tips. Styles livid. 



a CKRHTTHOHIES. stem simple, with few heads near the top, and few 

 ohovate constricted broadly clasping stem-leaves. Outermost phyl- 

 laries lax, acute. 



M. cerinthoides. linn. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 1129. Fries, Symb. 

 p. 57. Bab. Man. Ed. 3, p. 193, Gren. & Godr. p. 360 ? 



H. iMOSoni. E. B. t. 2083.* 



j8 AHGLIcmil. stem with elongated arcuate ascending lateral pedtmdes, 

 and nsnally a solitary leaf narrowed to a scarcely elaspiru 

 Fhyllaiies appressed, outer ones rather lax. 



H. angUcum. Fries, Symb. p. 93. Bab. Man. Ed. 3, p. 194. 



* The figure of S. Laasoni given by Sowerby more closely resembles the 

 typical form than the var. ^ 



