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suddenly into short slender or winged petioles. Stem-leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate or narrowed upwards from a rounded basej 

 lower one usually large, denticulate or with a few large remote 

 teeth; upper ones small, nearly or quite entire. Fe&imcles 

 elongated, rigid or (rarely) flexuose, ascending, slightly hairy, 

 thickened at the top. Invohicres dark green, clothed with 

 short black-based soft hairs and setse with pale yellow glandular 

 tips. Phyllaries erect in bud (not incumbent), not numerous, 

 broad, narrowed' upwards or contracted above and rather attenuate, 

 more or less acute. Florets bright yellow, minutely (but in 

 dried specimens scarcely visibly) pilose at the tips. Styles rather 

 livid. 



A strongly marked and handsome species, which may be distin- 

 guished in the wUd state from S. nigrescens and H. chryaantTmm, 

 by its taller stem, roughly hairy oblong lanceolate root-leaves, broad 

 based sessile stem-leaves, attenuate acute phyllaries, and Kvid (not 

 fuliginous) styles. Its closest alliance is with H. seneseens, from 

 which it differs in the root-leaves, and in not having the linear stalked 

 stem-leaf, nor the acuminate incumbent floccose-tipped phyllaries of 

 that species : also in having distinctly livid styles (not yellow 

 as in S". seneseens. J Under cultivation, when raised from seed, 

 aU its distinctive characters are retained. Fries refers this plant 

 to his " H. atratum var. ramuhsum," but I cannot regard it as 

 a variety of the plant which he considers as the true H. atratum, 

 and feel no hesitation in pronouncing it one of the most distinct 

 of our British Hieracia. 



