18 BMTISH HIERACIA. 



S. melmiocephalvm. Tausch in Mora oder Bot. Zeit. 1837, 

 vol. i. Biebl. p. 67. (not of Hook, and Am.) 



Granitic mountains of the Cairngorum range at an elevation of 

 3000 to 4000 feet ; not common. Corrie of Ben-na-bourd, Braeriach, 

 Cairntoul, Eavine of the Garachary, and Little Craigiadal, Aberdeen- 

 shire. Glen Dole, Clova Mountains, Forfarshire, oa mica slate. 



Flowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Tlant 4 to 8 iactes high, rarely 8 to 1 2 inches, with a solitary 

 (usually large) head. Root-stock woody but slender, frequently 

 rather elongated, with few fibres. Stem rather wiry, usually with 

 one leaf, occasionally with two, or with several minute bract-like 

 leaves ; more or less clothed throughout with scattered blackish 

 or cinereous black-based hairs, densely floccose, nearly or quite 

 destitute of setse ; invariably single headed. Leaves coriaceous, 

 deep glossy green; glabrous, or with scattered white hairs, especially 

 at the margins. Eoot-leaves ovate-spathulate, apiculate, remotely 

 dentate with blunt gland-tipped teeth, or nearly entire; frequently 

 recurved and slightly compressed towards the point; narrowed 

 more or less suddenlyinto slender orslightly winged, villous petioles. 

 Stem-leaves lanceolate, sessile or slightly clasping; lower one 

 sometimes Hnear-lanceolate and much narrowed downwards so as 

 to resemble a broadly winged petiole. Bud usually drooping. 

 Involucre broad, rounded at the base, dark green, densely clothed 

 with more or less elongated soft black-based whitish hairs. 

 Phyllaries short, broad, narrowed above, acuminate, more or less 

 lax throughout ; few outermost sometimes obtuse. Florets bright 

 yeUow, shortly (but sometimes slightly) pilose at the tips, and 

 always clothed with more or less densely scattered brittle hairs 

 externally. 



This plant, though by no means common in Britain, is obviously 

 the same as the one so widely diffused over the continent. My 

 specimens from Ben-na-bourd and other granitic mountains of the 

 Caimgomm range, exactly resemble specimens from Monte Eosa 



