40 BB,mSH HIEOACIA. 



14. H. IBICXnil. Glaucous green. Stem leafy, simple, corymbose 

 at the extremity. Root-leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, denticulate or dentate, hairy beneath, narrowed into 

 winged petioles. Stem-leaves broadly ovate, clasping, taper- 

 pointed, Itwohieres truncate at the base, ultimately con- 

 stricted, floccose, hairy. Fhyllaries broad, narrowed 

 upwards, sub-obtuse or acuminate. Florets glabrous. 

 Styles livid. 



H.Iricum. Fries, Symb. p. 60. Bab. Man. Ed. 3, p. 193. 

 Hook, and Am. Ed. 7, p. 218. 



H. Lapeyrousii. Froel. in De Cand. Prod. v. 7, p. 232 ? Bab. 

 Man. Ed. 2, p, 196. E. B. Suppl. t. 2915. 



Mountain districts of England, Ireland and Scotland. Banks of 

 the Tees, near Winch. Bridge. Grassy slope to the south of 

 Langdon foot-bridge. Falcon Glints, and CronMey Soars, Tees- 

 dale, on basalt. Kooky margins of streams descending from the 

 Twelve Pins of Bennabola and on the Eagle Mountain, Connemara. 

 Garron Head, Antrim. In rich soil and among micaceous gravel on 

 the banks of the Clunie near Castle-to-wn of Braemar. Eocks 

 west of the Lion, of Dee. Near the " Grey Mare's Tail" "Waterfall, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Flowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Plant robust, 18 to 24 inches high with large handsome heads. 

 Root as in M. cerinthoides. Stem erect, rigid, frecLuently reddish 

 purple, with numerous (3 to 6) leaves and scattered white denticu- 

 late hairs. Leaves firm, deep glaucous green, frequently tinged 

 with purple. Eoot-leaves denticulate or remotely dentate, with 

 teeth pointing forwards, entire towards the extremity, glabrous 

 above or with scattered white hairs, original ones broad, rounded. 

 Petioles (in my Irish specimens) short and very shaggy : in the 

 English ones less shaggy and more elongated. Stem-leaves de- 

 creasing in size upwards; all clasping; the lowest narrowed 

 downwards. Corymh with 3 to 8 heads, on rigid diverging 



