78 BRITISH BIEKACU. 



Plant 3 to 4 feet high, with numerous heads of medium 

 size. Stem erect, rather floccose, rigid, reddish and more or less 

 clothed with scattered soft whitish hairs in the lower part, leafy 

 throughout, and forming a broad spreading leafy corymb, or 

 branched corymbose panicle. Leaves rather hairy on both sides, 

 floccose beneath, sharply dentate with irregular sometimes elonga- 

 ted teeth, entire towards the point, acute : lowest ones lanceolate, 

 narrowed to a sessile or slightly clasping base : intermediate 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, or attenuated upwards from a rounded 

 clasping base : uppermost leaves (at the base of the branches) 

 nearly or quite sessile. Branches of the corymb spreading, leafy, 

 with many heads on more or less elongated and hairy floccose 

 scslIj peduncles thickened at the top. Involucres sub-globose in 

 bud ; with scattered black-based or brittle white hairs and setae, 

 intermingled towards the base with a little stellate down. Inner 

 ]pihylla/nes rather blunt and~pale at the margins ; outermost more 

 or less acute. Florets bright^ellow. Styles yellow, or with 

 minute dark hairs. Pa^us rather tawny, scarcely rufescent. 



Closely allied to S. rigidmn, from which species it differs in 

 being less glabrous and rather less rigid ; also in having shorter, 

 broader and strongly toothed leaves, sessile throughout, more 

 clasping, glaucous beneath, and with much more loosely reticulated 

 veins. The corymb also of S. eorymhosum is usually rather more 

 panicled and the peduncles more elongated. I am willing to admit 

 it as a species upon the authority of Pries, to whom specimens from 

 the banks of the Clunie (Aberdeenshire) were transmitted, and who 

 pronounced them to be imquestionably his H. corynibosmn. Hitherto 

 I have not had an opportunity of cultivating this species and of 

 ascertaiiiing thereby its character under those circumstances. 



