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ing, 1. elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate entire hairy above hoary 
beneath, involucral scales linear-lanceolate. — E. B. 1093. — 
Florets pale lemon-coloured with a red stripe on the back. In- 
volucral scales in 2 rows, outer short, inner longer acuminate. — 
/3. peleterianum (Gaud.) ; scions short, 1. and involucres clothed 
with long silky hairs, 1. lanceolate. — Dry banks. /3. dry elevated 
hills. P. V. — VIII. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 
[2. H.dubium (L. :) ; "1. elliptic-lanceolate obtuse nearly en- 
tire besprinkled with coarse hairs rather glaucous beneath, scions 
creeping elongated, stalks nearly smooth loosely corymbose, cal. 
bristly." Smith— E.^B. 2332 — "Stalk radical, 3 — 4-flowered." 
— Said to have been found in Westmoreland. P. VII.] E. 
[3. H. Auricula (L. ?) ; " 1. lanceolate acute nearly entire 
coarsely hairy green on both sides, scions scarcely so long as the 
leaves, stalks downy and hairy corymbose, cal. shaggy." Smith. 
— E. B. 2368. — Dale head, Grassmere, Westmoreland. Huds. 
P. VII. — It will be time enough to determine the correct nomen- 
clature of this plant and the preceding when either of them is 
found in Britain.] E. 
-1*4. H. aurantiacum (L.) ; st. slightly leafy below clothed with 
long slender hairs upper part and corymb with black glandular 
hairs intermixed with the slender simple ones, scions creeping, 
1. ovate-oblong acute entire with simple not stellate pubescence 
green beneath. — E. B. 1469- — Corymb dense, 2 — 10-flowered, 
thickly covered with black hairs and glands. — Hilly woods ; a 
doubtful native, common in gardens. P. VI. VII. S. 
** Pulmonares. Stem more or less leafy. Root not premorse 
nor creeping. 
5. H. alpinum (L.) ; st. usually single-headed, 1. lanceolate or 
elliptical narrowed into a footstalk entire or toothed, stem I. one 
or more, involucre covered with long silky hairs : scales scarcely 
at all membranous at the edges linear-attenuated, florets exter- 
nally hairy. — E. B. 1110. — St. always (?) simple in the British 
plant, clothed with stellate pubescence and long slender hairs 
black at the base. L. obovate-spathulate ; stem. 1. linear or 
linear-lanceolate. Involucral scales acute, outer ones lax. Florets 
bright yellow. Fr. striated, rough. In the branched forms the 
peduncles are erect. — /3. Halleri (Hook.) ; larger, radical 1. 
toothed oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, hairs on the involucre 
much less white. H. villosum E. B. 2379- (bad.) — Alpine rocks ; 
/3. the more common form. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
H. nigrescens (Willd.), which is closely allied to H. alpinum 
and to H. diaphanum, is stated on good authority to occur on the 
Clova Mountains. I am unacquainted with it, and know not to 
which of the above to join it or whether it is a distinct species. 
6. H. villosum (L.) ; st. with 1 or few heads, 1. oblong-Ian- 
