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(found at an elevation of 8000 or 9000 feet), the Bernese Alps, and 

 mountains above Inspruck, in th.e Tyrol; also from numerous 

 stations in Norway. Out of a large number of specimens from 

 various parts of the Continent, I find little or no wider range of form 

 than occurs on our own mountains. 



When cultivated, S. atj^iwu/m never branches, nor produces more 

 than a solitary head. Its stem becomes more elongated than when 

 in its wild state, and bears numerous bract-Uke leaves. The root- 

 leaves retain their dark shining green colour, but are more shaggy. 



4. H. HOLOSERICETJM. Green. Btem one headed, shaggy, iilky, 

 Root-lemes spathulate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, hairy 

 on both sides, uarro.wed into winged petioles. Stem-leaves 

 small, bract-like. Iwoohiere turbinate, very shaggy with long 

 white silJcy hairs. Outer phyllaries broad, obtuse, very lax ; 

 inner ones linear, acute, oppressed. Florets hairy externally, 

 densely pilose at the tips. Styles yellow. 



H. alpinum. E. B. t. 1110. 



Hieracium villosum Alpinum, flore magna singular i. Bay's Syn. 

 Ed. 3, p. 169. 



Alpine cliffs of 2000 to 3500 feet elevation : rare. Glaramara, 

 Langdale Pikes, and head of Pierce Gill, Seawfell, Cumberland, on 

 slate. Lochnagar and Craig Dhuloch, Aberdeenshire, on granite. 

 Cliffs of Caness, Canloehen-Glen, and to the south of Bradoonie, 

 Clova Mountains, Forfarshire. Ben Lawers, Perthshire. 



Elowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Pltmi 3 to 9 inches high, with a large solitary head. Soot- 

 stoch rather slender, woody at the neck, frequently csespitose and 

 matted with numerous fibres. Stem usually with one or two 

 small bract-like leaves, sometimes leafless ; very shaggy through- 

 out with long white silky hairs, more or less floccose, and with a 

 few minute setae. Leaves green, soft, shaggy. Koot-leaves 



