&6 BRITISH HIEKACIA. 



glands, and nearly destitute of stellate down. Phyllaries deep 

 green, broad, obtuse, frequently rather lax but incumbent at the 

 tips J sub-glabrous or with scattered black-based or brittle whitish 

 hairs. Florets bright but not deep yellow. Styles more or less 

 livid, or yellow and clothed with minute darkish hairs. 



Var. latifolium is much more robust, but comparatively shorter 

 when of equal vigour. Stem purplish red, rather hairy. Eoot- 

 leaves more persistent, very broad, obtuse, entire or denticulate, 

 rarely dentate. Stem-leaves large, broad, distant. Peduncles 

 more elongated. Innermost phyllaries frequently with pale 

 margins. 



One of our handsomest species, differing little, when cultivated, 

 from the form it assumes in a wild state when luxuriant. Under 

 cultivation the styles of the typical form are livid, but those of the 

 var. latifolium (which always retains its short robust habit and 

 broad leaves) are permanently yellow. 



This species appears to connect the two great divisions of " PiU- 

 monarea" and " Accipitrtnee," exhibiting occasionally the charac- 

 teristics of both sections. 



L^. BOVRENSIl, which has oblong or lanceolate, irregularly 

 dentate stalked small evanescent root-leaves, large cordate or broad- 

 based Aa^c^etg^i'm^ stem- ^ae;^^, Iroad oltuse phyllaries, and florets 

 pilose at the tips, is stated by Fries to have been found in Scotland 

 (Symb. Hier. p. 129). I have gathered this species near Nystuen 

 on the FiUe-fjeld in Norway, and have specimens also from the 

 Dovre-fjeld ; but I have never seen anything like them in Scotland, 

 except a reduced high alpine form of H. cerinthoides, which approxi- 

 mates to it in appearance, and to which species (or H. IricumJ the 

 plant spoken of in Babington's Manual, Ed. 8, p. 197, must probably 

 be referred. I have examined the banks of the Clunie carefully, 

 but find no trace of H. Sovrensff. It requires further search, and 

 may possibly yet be foimd.J 



