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6. H. CAIENDULIFLORUM. Green. Stem simple or branched, 

 with one or few heads, hairy, floccose, setose. Moot-Umies 

 Iroaily ovate-spathulate, ohtuse ; original ones nearly circular ; 

 sharply dentate, hairy on both sides, narrowed into winged 

 petioles. Stem-leaves very small, linear lanceolate. Imo- 

 hicres rounded at the lase, villous with soft black-based silky 

 hairs. Fhyllaries attenuate, acute ; outer ones lax. Florets 

 hairy externally, pilose at the tips. /Styles livid. 



Mountains at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet. Abundant on the 

 granite precipices of Dhulooh and Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire (asso- 

 ciated with jff. eximium, &c.) and scattered among the grass over 

 the region lying between the ridge of Lochnagar and the northern 

 part of the Clova district. Corrie of Clova, and damp micaceous 

 ravine above the Spital of Glen Shee, Forfarshire. 



Flowers in Yth and 8th months. 



Plant 6 to 14 inches high with very large and handsome heads 

 (frequently 2 to 3 inches across). Boot-stock woody at the neck, 

 sometimes rather elongated, with numerous iibres. Stem with 

 one or few much reduced leaves; setose, rather floccose, especially in 

 the upper part, with scattered soft white hairs ; simple with one 

 head^ or branched with two or three heads on elongated ascending 

 peduncles. Leaves clothed on both sides with soft white hairs. 

 Eoot-leaves broadly ovate or ovate-spathulate, rounded at the ex- 

 tremity ; inner ones sometimes sub-acute ; irregularly and sharply 

 dentate, narrowed into more or less broadly winged shaggy petioles. 

 Stem-leaves acute, sessile, frequently bract-Hke. Buds dark, rather 

 drooping. Involucres ventricose, rounded and sometimes slightly 

 constricted at the base after flowering, but rarely at all truncate. 

 Phi/llaries linear, more or less lax ; innermost frequently cuspi- 

 date. Florets bright yellow, beautifully clothed externally and at 

 the tips with scattered or pilose hairs. Sti/les always livid. 



