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BRITISH HIEEACIA. 



Not unfreqnent in the sub-alpine districts of Scotland, but scarce 

 in England. Banks of the South Esk, Forfarshire. Castletown of 

 Braemar. Bredalbane district, &o. Near Settle and in Hackfall 

 woods near Eipon, Yorkshire. Allendale, Northumberland. 



Flowers ia 8th and 9th months. 



Tlant 1^ to 3 feet high with numerous small heads. Stem 

 erect, sometimes rigid and frequently reddish ; hairy or glabrous, 

 leafy throughout forming a lax spreading corymbose panicle. 

 Leaves green, paler or glaucous beneath, reticulated with slender 

 loosely anastomosing veins, minutely and remotely (often obscurely) 

 denticulate, more or less hairy on both sides, ciliated; lower ones 

 oblong, more or less obtuse, attenuated at the base into winged 

 half-clasping petioles : intermediate leaves (including the greater 

 number) narrowed below the middle and usually again enlarged 

 into an auricled clasping base : upper ones broadly ovate, cordate 

 and strongly clasping; few uppermost (at the base of the branches 

 or peduncles) attenuated gradually from a broad rounded base. 

 Peduncles short, spreading, rather lax, hoary with stellate 

 down, densely clothed with black setse. Heads very small. 

 Phyllaries incumbent in bud, in two series of very unequal 

 length. Florets bright yellow, shortly but distinctly pilose at 

 the tips. Styles yellowish or livid, with minute dark hairs. 



A strongly marked species, retaining all its distinctive characters 

 under cultivation, with scarcely any change. 



