34- BRITISH HIERACIA. 



12. H. CHRYSANTHUM:. Green. Stem one or few headed, 

 hairy, floccose, setose. Root-lewves ovafe, acute, sharply, 

 irregularly and coarsely dentate, hairy; with iQng petioles. 

 Stem-leaves linear-lanceolate or subulate, stalked. Involucres 

 rounded at the base, green or very dark, with short black 

 velvety hairs and setae. Fhyllaries numerous, meumbent, 

 linear, attenasLte, acute; outermost small, ratiier lax. Florets 

 nearly glabrous. 



H. rupestre. Bab. Man. Ed. 3, p. 194 (not of Fries nor Allien.) 



^ mCBOCEFHALTTII. Stem sunple, witli one or few smaller heads on erect 

 or scarcely drooping pednncles. Leaves dentate or nearly entire, la.- 

 Tolucres urceolate, dark. Styles yellow or faintly livid. 



H. atratum. Fries, Symb. p. 105 ? 



Mountains at 2000 to 3000 feet elevation. Eocky margins of 

 the Feula Bum, above the falls. Abundant among grass at the 

 heads of many of the Clova valleys. Glen Fiadh, Glen Prosen and 

 Canlochen, Clova Mountains. Cliffs above Loch Ceanndin, Braemar, 

 on mica slate. Ben-na-bourd, Caimtoul, Eavines of the Garachary 

 and Guissachan, Ben-na-miuc-dhui, Loohnagar, and other granite 

 moimtains of the Oaimgorum range, 



A microeephalum. Lochnagar. Cliffs above Loch Whaxral, 

 Clova. Slate rocks of Stridden Edge and Glara-mara, Cumber- 

 land. 



Flowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Flmtt 9 to 12 (rarely 18) inches high, with one or few large 

 and handsome heads. Boot scarcely woody ; with strong fibres. 

 Stem with one or few small (frequently bract-like) leaves ; clothed 

 with scattered white hairs in the lower part, black-based dark 

 hairs, stellate down and numerous setae above ; usually with a 

 single head, but sometimes with two or more heads on rather 



