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cliffs. Precipices of Ben-na-main above Loch. Aan. Ben-na-mirio- 

 dhui. Among the felspar debris on the north side of Little 

 Craigindal, Braemar. 



Flowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Plant 6 to 13 inches high, with large heads. Boot-dochi)a.(^, 

 woody, frequently elongated. Stem leafless or with few minute 

 bract-like leaves, or (rarely) a rather large obovate-lanceolate leaf 

 supporting a branch ; floccose, sometimes slightly setose ; with 

 few scattered white brittle short hairs, or destitute of hairs in the 

 lower part ; single headed or branched, sometimes from the base, 

 and with 2 to 4 heads on rather elongated spreading or 

 ascending peduncles j uppermost branch extending beyond the 

 primary head, which is frequently double the size of the secondary 

 ones. Leaves deep green or silvery glaucous. Eoot-leaves 

 broadly ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or spathulate; sub-acute, or 

 rounded at the extremity and apicniate; irregularly dentate, 

 especially towards the base, where the teeth are occasionally 

 very large and acute, sometimes entire or very slightly 

 denticulate with minute glandular teeth; sub-glabrous above, 

 with few scattered hairs beneath and at the margins, or beautifully 

 ciliated ; few innermost leaves sometimes acute : all narrowed 

 more or less suddenly into rather short, slender, or slightly 

 winged petioles. Pedmncles thickened and compressed at the 

 top, frequently scaly and setose. Buds spherical. Involucres 

 dark green, with numerous small yellow glands, nearly destitute 

 of stellate down and setse. Phylla/ries rarely at all lax, usually 

 closely appressed, acute and cuspidate, or rarely sub-acuminate, 

 very attenuate, curving inwards and collapsing at the extremities 

 after flowering, so as to form a spherical or globoso-conical head. 

 Florets bright yellow, nearly or quite glabrous externally. Styles 

 always yellow. 



A distinct and beautiful species, conspicuous, in the monooepha- 

 lous form especially, for its large and brilliant heads. It differs 



