16 BRITISH HIEEACIA. 



"Woods and waste places- in tlie north ; not frequent. Aberdeen- 

 shire. Earffshire. Perthshire. Kinrosshire. Frequently an 

 outcast from gardens. (A doubtful native. J 



Flowers in 7th and 8th months. 



Plant 15 to 20 inches high, with numerous small heads. Boot- 

 stoeh usually short, slender and scarcely woody, but occasionally 

 elongated and producing rooting stolons. Stem erect, with a 

 single leaf not far from the base, or with 2 or 3 distant 

 leaves ; clothed throughout with scattered soft white hairs inter- 

 mingled near the top with black hairs and stellate down : densely 

 corymbose with 5 to 10 heads or occasionally with few (2 to 

 3) heads. Leaves bright grass green; entire, or very slightly 

 denticulate, frequently apiculate, rarely exhibiting any trace of 

 stellate down beneath; narrowed into short petioles. Upper 

 stem-leaf (when present) nearly or quite sessile. Pedimcles 

 densely floccose, with numerous setse and black hairs. Florets 

 orange, frequently vittate externally with a deeper central band. 



[_H. AURICULA, L. figured in E. B. t. 2368, and said to have 

 been "found at Dale Head, not far from Grassmere, 'WeBtmoreland," 

 is also omitted ; the description and figure of that plant given by 

 Smith, being taken from a Swiss specimen of H. glmiale of Fries 

 and Lachen.j 



