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panicle is too difi’erent to permit me to join them. H. Dovreme- 
prutraction, however (Lind. ‘ Hierac. Scand. Exsicc.,’ Nos. 40-41), 
has a panicle more like II . Dewari ; so I requested Mr. J. G. Baker 
to compare H. Dewari with Fries and Lager’s specimens of 
II. Dovrmse-protractum, and his answer is : “I feel quite satisfied 
that your plant is distinct from these [H. Dovrense and II. Dovre)\se- 
protractnm).” Being unable to identify the plant with any described 
species, I am reluctantly forced to give it a provisional name, and 
have chosen for that purpose one to commemorate the late Dr. 
Andrew Dewar, of Dunfermline, to whose explorations of the 
botany of Clackmannan, Kinross, South Perth, and West Fife, 
we are much indebted. Few local botanists appear to have worked 
their district better and been more careful to avoid erroneous 
records. Most of the specimens in British herbaria, previous to 
1875 (when Mr. T. Drummond sent it to the Botanical Exchange 
Club as “ H. strictum, broad-leaved form ”), were sent by Dr. Dewar 
from Linmill and the Ochills under the name of H. Hnuloides,' 
Tausch, and FI. ‘ ruiidum,' Hartman. There is, however, no doubt 
that the plant was first collected in the Loch Lomond district by 
Dr. J. H. Balfour. 
I am greatly indebted to Mr. Tom Drummond for taking me to 
the stations at Linmill, on the Black Devon, near Clackmannan- 
shire, and Glen of Sorrow, above Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and 
Glen Quay, close to where it enters Glen Devon. At Linmill, the 
plant grows on the banks of the stream in an open wood, and 
many of the specimens are extremely luxuriant ; it grows in 
company with FI. strictum,' which here flowers a fortnight later 
than H. Dewari. Li the Glen of Soitow, the station is on ledges 
of rock. In Glen Quaj^ it grows on ledges of rock and on land- 
slips ; and here, in 1846, it was in great profusion, growing in 
company with H. gothicum, and flowering at the same time. 
FI. strictum grows in Glen Devon, about a mile and a half from the 
station for H. Dewari. 
May not H. Dewari be the Scotch plant referred to by Fries in 
his ‘ SymbolfB ’ as H. Dovrense? — John T. Boswell, Dec. 1, 1877. 
Mr. T. Drummond has favoured me with the following notes : — 
H. Dewari, Boswell. History gathered from specimens in Herb. 
Bot. Soc., Edin. — It was originally gathered, in August, 1842, on 
the “ Shores of Loch Long.” The name of the collector is not 
given, but the writing is that of Prof. J. H. Balfour ; no attempt 
has been made to refer the specimen to anything but the genus 
Hieracium; to this some one has added the name “ denticulatum , 2,” 
(sic) in pencil. Backhouse refers it to H. strictum, Flies. The 
earliest of Dewar’s specimens from Glen Devon are labelled 
3rd Aug., 1844 ; these seem to have come under the observation 
of Prof. Babington, for on one of two labels, on one of his sheets, 
it is stated that “ this must be what Fries now calls H. strictum, 
the ligules, however, are most obscurely ciliated at the apex.” 
This is in a well-known hand-writing, but following it is: “I think 
that it is C. C. B.” On another label, attached to the same sheet, 
Mr. W. W. Evans states that Mr. Babington named them 
