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nrcuuie ascendllig, inv. thinly clothed floocose setose with few 

 tairs, phyll. acuminate erect overtopping the glabrous-tipped 

 buds, styles livid.— /Sy. £. B. 846.— St. 12—18 in. high. Young 

 heads cylindrical. L. msually thin, St.-l. ovate-acuminate, 

 often rounded or cordate below. Styles rarely yellowish. — 

 Woods and rocks. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



22. H. tcB'sium (Pr.) ; caesious or dull green, rt-1. ovate or 

 lanceolate rounded or narrowed below irregularly dentate-serrate 

 with patent or ascending teeth, petioles slender, st.-l. or 1 

 ■placed low, st. few-h^eaded with ^rair/ht-hased ped., inv. rounded 

 below iloccose hairy slightly setose, phyll. hluntish, inner ones 

 acute incumbent, styles slightly livid. — H. murorvm Sm. E. B' 

 2082. Fl. Dan. 2598.— St. 12—18 in. high. Young heads round- 

 ish. Fl. bright yellow, Phyll. not cuspidate ; inner very 

 slender, pointed. Rootstock long. L. nearly glabrous above, 

 coriaceous, not fringed with coarse hairs; innermost acute. 

 St.-l. not stalked, narrowed below. — S. obtusifolium (Backh.) ; 

 yellowish green, original rt-1. ovate rounded at both ends entire, 

 petioles densely villose, st.-l. stalked ovate-lanceolate, inv. 

 ventricose becoming truncate below, phyll. .icuminate, buds 

 pilose at the tip ; is probably a variety and is found at Clova. 

 —Mountains. P. VII. VUI. E. S. I. 



23. JI. Jlocciddsum (Backh.) ; ashy green, rt.-l. ovate or oval 

 blunt or acutish with small teeth below Jloccose on both siV/cj 

 narrowed into long petioles, st.-l. few large J-clasping, st. sub- 

 corymbose ^occose throughout, ped. straight-based, mv. ovate 

 below floccose setose hairy, phyll. acuminate incumbent, stj'les 

 rather livid. — Sy. E. B. 848. H. stelliyerum Backh. (not Froel.). 

 — St 14—2 ft "high. Fl. bright yellow. L. rosulate, persistent ; 

 original spathulate ; innermost acutish. Petioles rather slender 

 and woolly. St.-l. stalked; uppermost sessile. — ^Alpine streams 

 on Grampian Mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 



24. EC. vulgdtiim (Pi.) ; green or glaucous, 1. oblong or lan- 

 ceolate often with patent ai forward teeth on lower half, rt.-L 

 narrowed into petiole, st.-l. often many all or uppermost sessile, 

 heads panicled or subcorymbose, inv. and straight ascending joerf. 

 floccose setose with few hairs, phyll. equally attenuate acutish 

 incumbent, styles livid. — H. sylvaticum Sm. E. B. 2031. — 

 Very variable, 1 — 8 feet high. The more common plant has 



Eanicled heads cylindrical when young, glaucescent 1. purplish 

 eneath, persistent rt.-l, few st.-L, greenish inv. ; but some- 

 times the st. is very leafy, heads panicled, rt.-l. evanescent. — H. 

 maculatum (Sm.) has few broad purple-based st.-L, and imper- 

 fectly corymbose heads. The spots on the leaves are not con- 

 stant : in shade they are absent — Sy. E. B. 849. Many other 



