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below floccose setose liaiiy, phyll. acuminate incvinibent, styles 
rather li\-id. — H— 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. H. vnlgdtum (Fr.) ; green or glaucous, 1. oblong or lan- 
ceolate often with patent or forward teeth on lower half, rt.-l. 
narrowed into petiole, st.-l. often many all or uppennost sessile, 
heads panicled or subcoriiTnbose, inv. and straight ascending^jcr/. 
floccose setose \\\t\\ few hairs, phxjU. equally attenuate acutish in- 
cumbent, styles li^•id. — IL s>/lvaticum Sm., U. li. 2031. — Very 
variable. 1 — 3 ft. high. Rt.-l. persistent, st.-l. few ; or rt.-l. 
few and evanescent, st.-l. many. The typical plant has panicled 
heads cylindrical when young, glaucescent 1. purplish beneath, 
persistent rt.-l., few st.-l., greenish inv. — H. mactilatum (Sm.) 
£. B. 2121 is a form with evanescent rt.-l., many and broad st.- 
1., and imperfectly corj-mbose heads. Many other forms are 
named, but thev defy definition. — Woods, banks, walls. P. 
vn.— IX. ' E. s. I. 
**** Pseudo-aceipitrince. Inv. subglabrous. Rt.-l. often 
forming a winter rosette but rarely present with the flowers. 
25. H. goth'icimi (Fr.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate denticulate or den- 
tate at the middle, rt.-l. shortly stalked usually evanescent, lower 
st.-l. often stalked and aggregate, upper st.-l. sessile, heads few 
subcorymbose, ped. rigid erect sliglitly floccose, inv. roundly 
ventricose subglabrous or slightly hairy, phyll. dark green broad 
blunt incumbent, style yellow with fuscous hairs. — Veiy variable. 
1—4 ft. high. St. rigid, rarely much branched. Rt.-l. very 
rarely persistent. L. all similar, fimi, narrowed at both ends, 
sometimes very narrow. Young heads cylindrical. Inv. with 
few brownish hairs and very slightlj' floccose or subglabrous. — 
;3. latifolium (Backli.) ; st. branched, 1. broadly lanceolate, style 
nearly wholly yellow. H. norvegicum (Fr. ?).— Heathy or grassy 
subalpine places. P. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 
iii. ACCIPITRINA. Forming closed buds at the base of 
the St. in autumn. No true rt. -leaves with the flowers. 
St. leafy. Phyll. in many rows. Hairs of pappus rigid, 
unequal. 
* Pseudo-pvlmmareM. Rarely forming small basal rosettes 
which do not outlive the winter. 
2(). 11. tridentdtinn (Fr.) ; st. leafy, 1. lanceolate few-toothed 
at tlie niiddl(! falsely 3-vciiied, rt.-l. narrowed into winged pe- 
tioles, .st.-l. sessile, bracts nearly linear, heads corymbose, round- 
based inv. and long floccose slender petl. with short haii-s, inv. of 
