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leafless or with 1 small leaf. Heads large; fl. yellow, teeth fringed 
in bud. Styles fuscescent ?—Falcon Clints, Teesdale. Hesselden 
Gill, Settle. Clova, Forfarshire? P. VII. VIII. E. 8. 
10. H. pallidum (Biv.) ; csesio-glaucous, st. with about 1 distant 
sessile ]. simple or one or twice forked at the top with straight 
ped. each subtended by a small bract, root-l. stalked ovate-lan- 
ceolate acute (outer ones ovate) rosulate persistent, inv. ovate be- 
low and ped. setose and slightly hairy, phyll. subcuspidate— 
H. Hallert Hook. Fl. Lond.—L. often much narrowed below, 
usually with deciduous stellate down beneath, entire or denticu- 
late or deeply toothed below ; outer ones bluntish. St. leafless 
or with 1 small mostly sessile leaf; occasionally 1 of the lower 1. 
is slightly above the others. Heads large; fl. yellow, teeth 
fringed in bud. Styles “ yellow.”—8. H. persicifolium (Fr.) ; 
nearly glabrous, 1. lanceolate denticulate, st. forked, phyll. cuspi- 
‘date. This is probably a form of H. pallidum.—Upper Teesdale. 
Kirkstone, Westmoreland. Snowdon. Braemar. Clova. 8. Cairn- 
toul, Aberdeenshire (3000—3500 ft.). Mr. Jas. Backhouse, Jun. 
Isle of Harris. E.S. 
** Phyll. attenuate not exceeding the opening fl., obtuse or 
acutish, not cuspidate. 
(ll. H. oreades (Fr.); glaucous, st. leafy branched, 1. oblong 
obtuse denticulate in the middle, root-l. rosulate persistent (outer 
roundish), st.-l. sessile decreasmg upwards, inv. tumid truncate 
at both ends bearing black-based hairs minute yellow sete and a 
little stellate down, phyll. obtuse —Dill. Hort. Elth. t. 179.— 
St. often branching from every axil. Ped. and inv. slightly 
whitely stellately downy. Phyl. linear-attenuate, inner acumi- 
nate.—Gordale Scar near Malham, Yorkshire. Dili. P. VILI.] E. 
12. H. saxifragum (Fr.); glaucous, st. leafy below branched, 
1. lanceolate dentate in the middle pilose and stellately downy 
beneath, root-l. few, st.-]. sessile usually elongate decreasing up- 
wards, inv. flat or ovate below and ped. setose hairy and slightly 
stellately downy, phyll. rather acute.—St. usually much branched 
and panicled at the top. St. and under side of 1. with a little 
stellate down. Phyll. turning blackish, acuminate; sete with 
yellow heads. Our plant seems to be the var. vimineum (Fr.).— 
Cairmntoul; Glen Dole, Clova; and Teesdale. Mr. Jas. Backhouse, 
Jun. P. VIII. E. S. 
c. Herb green or glaucous, with long soft simple hairs. 
* Phyll. straight, exceeding the opening fl., cuspidate. St.-1. 
1—3, distant from the basal rosette. 
13. H. nigrescens (Willd.); green, st. with about 1 Na single- 
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