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Helyeticse, ed. 2. vol. ii. p. 509. Pries, Symbolae Hieraciorum, p. 2. 

 Babington, Manual of British Botany, ed. 3, p. 192. Hooker and 

 Arnott, British Mora, ed. 7, p. 217. Grenier and Godron, Hore 

 de France, p. 345. 



R FnosiSSnnru. Stolons thick, short. Leaves and stem with 

 very long silTcy white hmrs. Phyllaries all lanceolate. 



S. pilosella var. pilosissimum, Koch, Syn. p. 509. Fries, 

 Symb. p. 3. Grenier & Godron, p. 345. 



H. pilosella R peleterianum. Bab. Man. Ed. 3. p. 192. 



Pilosella repens. Eay, Synopsis, Ed. 3. p. 170. 



Banks and dry pastures : abundant. 



(3 pilosissimum, waste places, rare. Channel Islands. Craig 

 Breiddin, Montgomeryshire. 



Flowers from 6th to 10th month. 



Plant 4 to 12 inches high, with rather small heads. Boot- 

 stock csespitose, creeping, with numerous more or less elongated 

 leafy stolons. Stolons sometimes ascending near the extremity, 

 and producing a terminal head. Primary stem erect, simple, 

 leafless, densely floccose above, hairy, setose. Leaves duU green, 

 oblong, or obovate-lanceolate, or spathulate, entire, rather obtuse, 

 narrowed below, covered more or less densely on the upper surface 

 with long sub-erect hairs, whitely floccose and hairy beneath. 

 Involucre usually whitish with dense stellate down ; setose, or with 

 thick short black-based gland-tipped hairs. Inner phyllaries 

 usually with pale margins. Florets glabrous, vivid sulphur colour, 

 striped externally with a central reddish purple band, rarely 

 yellow throughout. 



The var. pilosissimum is shorter, more robust, and sometimes 

 nearly destitute of stolons. Leaves with longer and more silky 

 hairs. Phyllaries broader, and lanceolate. 



A form ( ? ) of .ff. Pilosella occurs ia Teesdale and other mountain 

 districts with the primary stem and stolons elongated ; phyllaries 

 without setae, but with dense soft black hairs. It seems nearly allied 



