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y ACTTTirOLIIIlI. Extremely glaucous. Stem usually branched from the 

 base upwards, and with sharply and coarsely toothed, very acute 

 or acuminate, more or less clasping glabrous leaves. Fhyllaries ap- 



Micaceous cliffs of 1500 to 2000 feet elevation : not uncommon. 

 Eagle Crag near Lochlee. Head of Glen Piadh and Glen Dole. 

 Eocky margin of the streamlet descending from KUbo Corrie, and 

 in other high parts of the Clova district. Canlochen Glen, Forfar- 

 shire. Damp ravine above the Spital of Glen Shee. Head of Glen 

 TUt. Stuich-an-Lochen, and other mountains of the Bredalbane 

 district, Perthshire. 



Tar. anglioum. Mountain districts of England and Scotland. 

 Teesdale, on basalt. Craven district, on mountain limestone. 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland. Highlands of Scotland, usually 

 on mica slate. 



Far. acutifoUum. Margins of streamlets descending from Caim- 

 toul, Aberdeenshire, and among granitic sand at the foot of the 

 mountain. Confluence of the Clunie and the Dee, near the Castle- 

 town of Braemar. Aberdeen Links. 



Plowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Flani 15 to 24 inctes high, with large heads. B.oot-stoch 

 woody, with few fibres, rarely elongated. Stem, erect, rigid, 

 wiry, frequently purplish below, slightly hairy, with few (usually 

 2) leaves, and 1 to 3 heads near the top. Leaves soft, dull green 

 or glaucous. Eoot-leaves ovate-lanceolate and acute, or acuminate, 

 or taper pointed ; nearly smooth above, paler and hairy beneath j 

 denticulate chiefly towards the middle, sometimes dentate, rarely 

 entire ; original leaves broad, rounded, apiculate. Petioles, more or 

 less shaggy, sometimes scarcely winged. Stem-leaves sessile ; lower 

 ones oblong-lanceolate or narrowed below the middle and again 

 enlarged into a rounded clasping base; uppermost scarcely 

 clasping, small and usually entire. PeAunoles rigid, frequently 

 rather arcuate, fioccose, and with several setse. Imohcres 



