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28. H. STRICTUM. Without root-leaves. Stem leafy,' irre- 

 gularly corymbose at the top. Leaves glaucous and sub- 

 reticulate* beneath, denticulate, eca/reely clasping; lower 

 Ones lanceolate; intermediate ovate or olhng-lanceolate ; 

 upper ones rounded at the base. Peduncles straight, simple 

 or slightly branched, floccose. Involucres elliptico-cylin- 

 drical; with scattered stQ\\2A& down; setose, or with brittle 

 whitish hairs; or glabrous. Outer phyllaries sub-acute : inner 

 ones obtuse. Florets nearly glabrous. Styles with dark 

 hairs. 

 H. sfrictum. Fries, Symb. p. 164. Bab. Man. Ed. 3, p. 198. 

 Hook. & Am. Ed. 7, p. 225. 



IT. frutieosum latifolium glalrum. Eay's Syn. Ed. 3, p. 168. 

 Sub-alpine districts. Patterdale and near Lorton, Cumberland. 

 Inveraman, Oban, and Arroquhar, Argylesbire. Fall of Foyers, 

 InvemessHre. "OoHlls and Bredalbane." Glenmalure, Co. 

 "Wicklow. 



Flowers in 7tb and 8th months. 



Plant 1^ to 3 feet high, with rather small heads. Stem erect, 

 hollow, glabrous or with scattered hairs ; leafy throughout ; corym- 

 bose at the extremity with simple or slightly branched peduncles. 

 Zeaves numerous but scattered, dull green or rather glaucous, 

 usually glabrous above; beautifully glaucous beneath, falsely 

 3 veined, and sometimes rather hairy beneath, and with very minute 

 glands or glandular hairs at the margins; denticulate or sub-dsntate 

 in the middle : lower leaves lanceolate, sub-obtuse (lowest, when 

 close to the root, occasionally with distinct petioles) : intermediate 

 ones oblong-lanceolate or ovate, acute, narrowed to both ex- 

 tremities, or rounded at the base and slightly clasping ; upper ones 

 (at or near the base of the peduncles) narrowed towards the 

 point from a broad rounded sessile base. Branches of the 



* See note under //. tridentatum. 



