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peduttcles, frequently leafy below. Pedv/ncles confined to the 

 upper portion of the stem, setose, with black-based hairs and 

 stellate down. Involucres constricted at the base after flowering, 

 clothed with scattered brittle white hairs. Phyllaries attenuate 

 above, sub-obtuse ; innermost ones (in the Teesdale and Scotch 

 plant) not unfrequently acuminate. Florets pale brilliant yellow, 

 glabrous, or (rarely ?) " obscurely pilose at the tips." 



A fine species, nearly allied to the preceding, but distinguished 

 from it by its robust habit, more leafy stem, broadly ovate stem- 

 leaves, (not constricted below and again dilated as in S. cerin- 

 thoides) truncate involucres, and sub-glabrous florets. When eulU- 

 vated and raised from seed for successive years, all its distinctive 

 characters are maintained, and it becomes very robust and leafy. 

 Unlike jff. eerinthoides, it shows no disposition to branch or exhibit 

 flower-buds, tUl its stem is from 12 to 18 iaohes high. H. Iricum 

 idtimately becomes double the height of all the varieties of H. cerin- 

 thoides and forms a large branching corymb. On exposed oUffe it 

 sometimes occurs much reduced in size (9 to 12 inches) with 1 or 2 

 strongly clasping stem-leaves, and a solitary large terminal head. 



[_ff. VILZOSUM. This species is omitted under the firm belief 

 that it is not British. The evidence resting on the specimen in the 

 Herbarium of the York Museum, supposed to be collected by the 

 late G. Don, is weak and imsatisfactory. I believe it to be a foreign 

 specimen, and that the plant found by Don was either H. calmduli- 

 jlorum, or S. eximivm (figured as H. viUosum in Eng. Bot. 2379.) 

 The ^ecimen above referred to is not marked " Lochnagar" ex- 

 ehiswehf (as though this identical specimen had been found on that 

 mountain), but " Lochnagar and other mountains;" making it highly 

 probable that this specimen was one received from the continent, 

 and erroneously supposed by Don to be British and identical with the 



