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primary head very attenuate and cuspidate. Intermediate in 

 appearance between S. vulgatum and H. nigrescens. Caimtoul 

 3000 to 3500 feet. 



\S. PL JJIfBEUM, whicli diflfers from JS. ceesium in having a 

 more leafy stem, dark green involucres destitute of stellate down, 

 cuspidate phyllaries, and fuliginous styles, is regarded by Fries as 

 British, but as no native locality is knovm to British Botanists, 

 I am best satisfied to omit it. Professor Grenier, to whom I trans- 

 mitted specimens of our British form of H. stelligerum, mentions 

 their strong similarity to his specimens of the H. plumbeum of Fries. 

 Our plant diflfers however so conspicuously from my Scandinavian 

 specimens of H. plumbeum, that I cannot identify it with that 

 species.] 



d. PSEUDO-ACCIPITRINJE. 



Involucres sub-glabrous, Eoot-leaves frequently forming a winter 

 rosette, but rarely present when the plant is in flower. 



25, H. GOTHICUM, Ba/rh green. Stem rigid, leafy, sub-corym- 

 bose at the extremity with few heads, or branched. Leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate, acute, denticulate or dentate in the 

 middle, sub-glabrous above. Moot-leaves shortly stalked, 

 usually evanescent. Upper stem-leaves sessile. Peduncles as- 

 cending, floccose. Involucres dark green, globoso-veutricose, 

 with scattered whitish hairs or nearly glabrous. Phyllmries 

 hroad, spirally imbricated, oltuse. Florets glabrous. Styles 

 yellow, or with minute livid hairs. 



H. Gothioum. Fries, Symb. p. 121. Bab. Man. Ed, 3, p. 198. 

 Hook. & Am. Ed. 7, p. 223. 



