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^ FnirOLnJM. stem leafy throughout. Leaves elongated, very narrow, 

 entire, revolute at the margins. Heads sub-oorymbose. 



Puhmna/ria graminea. Eay's Syn. Ed. 3, p. 168 ? 



Thickets and margins of woods, especially in sandy or moo^y 

 soil ; also in rocky or stony places in sub-alpine districts. Not nn- 

 frequent in England and Ireland. 



j3 fMfolium. Eare. Harper's Island, Lough Neagh, Co, Antrim. 

 Flowers in 7th, 8th and 9th months. 



Plant 1^ to 4 feet high, with large and handsome heads. 

 Stem erect, simple, wiry, solid, hairy or shaggy in the lower part, 

 glabrous or shghtly hairy and floccose above ; with very numerous 

 leaves gradually diminishing in size and becoming more scattered 

 as they approach the peduncles where they pass insensibly into 

 bracts ; sometimes with densely aggregated leaves below the 

 middle : forming a more or less umbellate corymb of few (3 or 4), 

 or numerous heads, on slender, erect wiry peduncles ; occasionally 

 racemoso^orymbose. Leaves green, glabrous above, or hairy on 

 both sides ; linear, linear-lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, usually 

 similar in form throughout; remotely denticulate, sub-dentate, 

 or nearly entire; reticulated beneath with ascending anasto- 

 mosing veins ; sessile : lower leaves attenuated or narrowed at the 

 base; upper ones sometimes broad and rounded at the base. 

 Peduncles slender, rigid, more or less elongated and scaly; 

 floccose, but destitute of hairs and setse. Inwlncres broadly 

 ovate or sub-cylindrical, dark green, or (rarely) pale straw- 

 colour ; nearly or quite destitute of stellate down, without hairs 

 or setae. Phyllaries of one colour throughout, more or less recurved 

 at the points ; inner ones rather broad and attenuate, very blunt : 

 outermost frequently very small, slender and acute. Styles 

 yellow, sometimes clothed externally with minute dark hairs. 



The " va/rP fiUfoUum differs so conspicuously in appearance from 

 the typical S. ttmieUatum as to lead me to suppope that it will 



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