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teett pointing backwards or spreading ; innermost leaves lanceo- 

 late acute, narrowed downwards ; original ones broadly elliptical, 

 rounded at both extremities j all conspicuously fringed with long 

 rather rigid whitish deciduous hairs, which are sometimes scat- 

 tered over the whole upper surface ; coriaceous and frequently 

 glabrous throughout in autumn. Lower stem-leaf stalked when 

 there are two; otherwise nearly or quite sessile. Peduncles 

 erect or ascending, slender, usually floccose and with scattered 

 setse. Involucres sometimes without hairs. Thyllaries acute; 

 (outer ones rarely sub-acute) porrect in bud. Florets bright 

 yellow ; glabrous, or rather pilose at the tips especially in the 

 unexpanded state. Styles always pure yellow. 



A form of B. pallidum (?) occurs not imfrequently among the 

 Clova and probably other Scottish mountains, differing from the 

 typical one in having glaucous root-leaves more or less incised at 

 the hase, which are glabrous or coarsely hairy above, but with none 

 of the long rigid erect cilia which mark the typical H. pallidum. 

 It is frequently without a stem-leaf, has peduncles and irmohicres 

 densely setose with minute black gland-tipped hairs, acute phyllaries 

 and yellow styles. Specimens transmitted to Fries were re- 

 garded by him as " S. murorum incisum," but my specimens do 

 not agree satisfactorily with his description of that plantat page 110 

 of the Symb. Hier., their peduncles and involucres being densely 

 clothed with black ghmd-tipped setse. It appears to agree well 

 with the H. Schmidtii of Tausch and £!och, and I feel very doubt- 

 ful as to its identity with H. pallidum. At present, however, there 

 does not seem to be sufficient proof of its specific distinctness to 

 warrant separation from that ^eoies.* 



* The plant described by SUlenins in Bay's SynopsiB. Ed. 3, at page 

 169, (which is refened by Fries to H. Oreades) eyidently belongs to this 

 species. For the identification of the original specimens preserved in Sheraxd's 

 Herbarium at Oxford, I am indebted to M. Masters, (the Curator,) who 

 has kindly transmitted tracings of them for examination. Some of the speci- 

 mens with which the- label in the handwriting of DiUenius is placed bearing 



