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45. COMPOSITE. 
Vtdgata. Plant green or glaucous with soft simple eglandular 
hairs. St. few or many-leaved. Phyll. irregularly im- 
bricated ; with short hairs and floccose down, with or 
without setK. Style.s yellow-livid or dusky. Fl. glabrous 
or sub-ciliate. 
* Scapigera. St. scapiform, bare, or 1 — 2-leaved. 
50. //. stenolepis (Lindeb.) ; st. 6 — 14 in. high simple or 
branched furrowed almost glabrous hairy towards the base, ped. 
long ascending bracteate setose densely floccose hardly hairy, 
rt.-l. caesius-greer purpled beneath, ovate or oblong-lanceolate 
obtuse, or lanceolate acute or acuminate unequally broadly 
based sometimes truncate or cuneate or cordate almost entire 
towards the apex, irregularly and deeply dentate the teeth 
descending into the long floccose very haiiy petioles, glabrous 
above somewhat floccose beneath, st.-l. 0 — 1 linear or lanceolate 
acute long-stalked entire or sharply dentate. Heads small 
1 — 5, inv. sub-truncate floccose setose hairy, phyll. long narrow 
acutedark green, inner paler. Fl. bright yellow pilose externally, 
sub-ciliate at the tips, styles yellow or very slightly livid. — 
E.csicc. Fasc. vi. 136. — /3. angidnum (W. E. Linton) ; rt.-l. 
rosulate nearly erect ovate-oblong denticulate or almost entire 
with few large teeth, subglabrous, inv. darker less hairy setose 
and floccose than type, long snake-like in bud, styles livid. — 
Exsicc. Fasc. i. 15. — Mountains and clifi^s. /3. High hills above 
Moffat, Scotland. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
51. //. hypocluerdides (Gibs.); glaucous green, rt.-l. ovate 
blunt apiculate rather truncate or cordate below denticulate, 
petioles slender, st. leafless rigid simple or forked with straight- 
based ped., inv. truncate helov floccose hairy setose, phyll. broad 
and blunt incumbent, styles yellow. — Sy. E. B. 842 ; Exsicc. 
Fasc. ii. 35 ; //. (^ibsoni Backh.— St. 6—18 in. high. Fl. bright 
yellow. Phyll. not cuspidate. L. ro.sulate, persistent, very 
broad, blotched with purple above. — /3. saxorum (F. .1. Hanb.) ; 
rt.-l. narrower more acute paler green purpled when young 
losing this wlien older, ped. longer less straight and rigid, 
phyll. porrect in bud, more acute darker less white-margined. — 
7. Cyatlds (Ley.) ; rt.-l. green or slightly blotched, original 
obovate retuse at the tip decurrent into broadly winged hairy 
petioles hairy beneath and on the margins, inner long oval or 
narrow elliptic acute often toothed, Imd very short forming from 
the first an open cup, phyll. recurved in hud, outer lax. — Exsicc. 
Fasc. V. 109. — Mountains, a. England; Wales; Ireland. /3. Red 
sandstone rocks, Breconshire, Montgomeryshire. 7. Lime- 
stone rocks near Merthyr Tydfll, Breconshire. P. VII. VIII. 
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