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to the var. nigrescens (Eries), but differs in. having vittate florets. 

 I have also met with a plant on the cliffs of the Eagle Mountain, 

 Connemara, which is devoid of stolons, and has deep green, erect, 

 very shaggy and silky leaves. Under cultivation it produces thick 

 stolons, (occasionally bearing heads at the extremity,) more 

 spreading leaves, a very tall primary stem sometimes branching 

 near the base, and with dark villous involucres. Possibly this 

 also may be only a form of S. pUosella, but both require further 

 examination. 



[H. BUBIUM, Huds : figured in E. B. t. 2332, and said to have 

 been found in Cumberland, is omitted, there being much doubt 

 respecting it. The description given by "Woodward in "With. Bot. 

 Arr. and the figure above referred to, both having been taken from 

 garden specimens, belonging to S. stoloniflorum of Eries ; whilst 

 Smith's description in the Eng. El. is taken from S. awicula, L.] 



b. AURICUIiE. 



Sul-stoloniferous. Scape rather leafy below, corymbose at the 

 top. Inner jiAyllaries oUuse. 



2. H. AURANTIACXTM. Bright green. Root-stock creeping, 

 sub-stoloniferous. Stem, simple, with one or few leaves, 

 densely corymbose at the top, hairy, setose. Leaves obovate 

 or lanceolate, sub-acute, nearly entire, hairy on both sides, 

 not floccose beneath. Involucre rounded at the base, dark 

 with blackish hairs and setse. Fhyllaries obtuse. Florets 

 glabrous. Styles Irown. 



H. aurantiaeum. Linn. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 1126. E. B. t. 1469. 

 Koch, Syn. vol. ii. p. 515. Fries, Symb. p. 23. Bab. Man. 

 Ed. 3, p. 192. Gren. & Godr. p. 348. Hook & Am. p. 209. 



