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ventricose rounded telow shaggy with black soft hairs setose, 

 phyll. few hroad aouminate adpressed with floccose tips outermost 

 lax, styles livid. — Sy. E. B. 828. H. alpinum yar. 7nelanocepha- 

 lum Fries, not Bah., nor H. melanocephalmn Tausch. — St. 6 — 10 

 in. high, hairy and floccose, with straight simple diverging 

 branches and many heads when under cultivation ; st.-l. usually 

 2 or more. L. broad, narrowed gradually below; original 1. 

 roundish. Petioles sometimes slightly winged. Heads usually 

 solitary, rather large ; fl. bright yellow, nearly or quiteglabrous 

 on the back. — Lofty mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



8. H. glohtmim (Backh.) ; glaucous or green, st. few-Leaded 

 floccose, rt.-l. ovate or ovate-lanceolate subacute glabrous above 

 entire or dentate narrowed into petioles, inv. rounded below ulti- 

 mately globose greenish-black with short black-based hairs, phyU. 

 many attenuate acute adpressed, styles yellow. — Sy. E. B. 829.— 

 St. 6 — 12 in. high, usually 1-headed, rarely branching even 

 from near the base, leafless or with few nari'ow bractlike leaves. 

 Original 1. blunt. Innermost 1. sometimes acute. Petioles 

 short, sometimes slightly winged. Buds globose. Fl. bright 

 yellow. — Cairngorm Mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



tt ^t. frequently lengthened and branched with several heads. 



9. H. nigres'cen's (Willd.) ; green, rt.-l. ovate or lanceolate 

 coarsely and irregularly dentate in their lower half hairy with 

 slender petioles, st. simple or branched with few heads and few 

 lanceolate or oblong shortly stalked 1., inv. ovate beloiv, dark 

 green with soft black-based hairs setose, ped. densely floccose, 

 phyll. acuminate, outer ones blunt, styles brownish. — Sy. E. B. 

 832. — Variable in height. Fl. deep brilliant yellow, pilose at 

 the tips. Phyll. overtopping the buds. L. rarely nearly gla- 

 brous above. Rt.-l, suddenly narrowed below ; original 1. 

 roundish. St.-l. usually 1, narrowed at both ends. St. floccose, 

 branching much in cultivation. — Highland mountains. P. VII. 

 ^TII. S. 



10. H. linguldtum (Backh.) ; green, H.-l. lanceolate or oblong 

 apiculate denticiAate or dentate hairy with short petioles, st. 

 simple or branched with few head? and few lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late-attenuate acute sessile 1., inv. broad becoming truncate below 

 very dark with soft black-based hairs slightly floccose, phyll. 

 attenuate acute incumbent, styles livid. — Sy. E. B. 834. H. 

 saxifragum Bab. — St. 15 — 24 in. high. Fl. bright yellow. 

 Phyll. greenish black, overtnppina' the buds. L. coarsely hairy 

 above, entire towards the end. Original 1. broad and roimded. 

 St. with scattered black-based hairs throughout, a little floccose. 

 St. and inv. nearly without setas. — Mountain Glens. Olova. 

 Braemar. Ben Lawers. P. VII. VHI, S. 



