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size, almost bract-like at trie apex of St., styles somewhat 
dusky. — Heathy or grassy places in subalpine districts, a. 
England ; Scotland. j8. Scotland. 7. Ireland. 5. Scotland. 
81. II. sparsifoliuiit (Lindeb.) ; st. h — 2 ft. high, simple or 
branched erect hairy below, ped. long spreading floccose, rt.-l. 
small spathulate not persistent, st.-l. many deeply blotched with 
brownish-purple pale green beneath, nearly entire or denticulate 
in the middle, glabrous above somewhat floccose beneath, lower 
ovate entire decurrent into winged petioles, upper long narrow 
acute with somewhat clasping base, uppermost linear. Heads 
few, inv. large broad dark with long white hairs and minute 
setae, phj'll. imbricated with recurved tips and curved margins, 
outer small lax obtuse, inner pale narrower more acute. Fl. 
bright yellow, almost glabrous, styles pure yellow. The 1. of 
the Welsh specimens are always more toothed, broader and 
blunter, and the inv. less clothed than in those from Scotland. — 
E,rsicc. Fasc. i. 24. — ClifiFs and sides of streams in subalpine 
districts. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
82. //. rig'idum (Hartm.) j3. millattim (Dahlst.) ; st. 1 — 2^ 
feet high, simple or branched nairy floccose, ped. spreading 
bracteate,l. ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate apiculate lower almost 
entire, denticulate or coarsely toothed in the middle, almost 
glabrous above, hairy beneath purpled. Heads 1 or many, outer 
phyU. lax short, inner paler subobtuse, very sparingly clothed 
with few hairs and scattered yellow setae, styles livid. — Ejsicc. 
Fasc. V. 118. — 7. acrifolivm (Dahlst.) : 1. long narrow mostly 
coarsely toothed below the middle, inv. minutely setose with 
few hairs very slightly floccose at the base, styles yellw. — 
Exsicc. Fasc. iii. 71. — 5. Friesii (Hartm.); ped. long straight 
densely floccose, 1. denticulate with fine sharp teeth, almost 
glabrous above hairy and floccose beneath, inv. broad unequally 
based, with few hairs and slightly floccose, outer phyll. short 
dark subobtuse, inner paler more attenuate glabrous. — f. tri- 
dentatuni (Ft.) ; 1. sessile or sub-petiolate upper only bractlike 
ftairi/ below not floccose dentate in the middle, y>ec/. sletuler hairy 
floccose, inv. truncate below, constricted after flowering, phyll. 
pale-margined, hairy hardly floccose, sti/les livid. — f. nidense 
?F. .J. Hanb.) ; 1. very numerous, upper sessUe rounded at the 
base, lower long-petioled decurrent to the stem acutely pointed 
with long acumiruite teeth, buds cylindric, styles somewhat 
darkened. — Exsicc. Fasc. v. 119.— Other vars. or forms have 
been described. — Mountain glens and banks of streams. P. 
P. VII.— IX. 
E. S. I. 
VII.-IX. 
E. S. 
