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reticulated beneath, with a few soft white hairs most numerous on 
the midrib. Leaves sparingly distributed over the stem up to the 
inflorescence, not more crowded in the upper part, and, indeed, 
often more distant there than on the lower- part of the stem ; the 
lowest oval, or oval-obovate, or broadly-elliptical-obovate, gi-adually 
contracted into slender, distinct petioles ; intermediate ones regu- 
larly oval, or broadly elliptical, narrowed at each end, semi- 
amplexicaul, but scarcely auricled ; uppermost ones ovate, or 
ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaul, rounded at the base, acuminate ; 
all sub-entire, or denticulate in the middle, with the teeth remote 
and often reduced merely to callous points, bright green, sub- 
glabrous, or with short distant, rather stiff, bristly hau’S above, 
paler though not glaucous beneath, with the network formed of 
the ultimate veins apparent but not very distinct, with rather long 
stiff han-s on the veins and margins, and with shorter distant ones 
all over the lower surface. Anthodes rather small, few, in a simple 
corymb, or, if more numerous, in a lax panicle, with straggling 
branches, at the extremity of which there are a few sub-racemosely 
disposed anthodes. Pedicels short, incurved, usually with one or 
two minute bracts beneath the anthode. Pericline in flower sub- 
cylindrical from an obconic base, in fruit conical. Phyllaries few, 
in two irregular series ; the outer ones very few, short, adpressed, 
sub-obtuse; the inner ones with pale margins, obtuse; all blackish- 
olive, rather sparingly clothed with short black hafrs and longer 
black-based white ones, usually with a very few black gland-tipped 
hairs, rarely with any stellate down except at the very base. 
Ligules not ciliated at the apex. Styles fuscous. Achenes chestnut- 
brown. Plant bright green. 
‘ ‘ Shores of Loch Long, and Inverarnon (probably in Dumbarton- 
shire)? Inversnaid, Stirlingshire: and Killin, Perthshire.” — Dr. J. 
H. Balfour. “ Lethensdene, Clackmannanshire, and Glen Devon, 
Perthshire.” — Dr. A. Dewar. “ Lethensdene and Linmill, on the 
Black Devon and Glen of Sorrow (Tributary to the Devon), 
Clackmannanshfre ; Glen Devon, at the mouth of Glen Quay, and 
near the opening to Glen Eagles, Perthshire.” — Tom Drummond. 
Scotland. Perennial. Late summer and autumn. 
Leaves of the autumnal rosette with the lamina, 2 inches 
long ; radical leaves in spring, scarcely forming a rosette, and 
often decayed before flowering, 3-8 inches long and 1-2^ inches 
broad, insensibly attenuated into the petiole ; intermediate leaves, 
2-5 inches long by f-2^ inches broad. Stem 1-3 feet high. 
Panicle branches, 2-8 inches long. Anthodes about the size of 
those of H. ruhjatitm. Pericline about -|-inch long by J-inch in 
diameter. 
The British, or reputed British species of Hieracia to which 
H. JJewarl is most nearly allied are U. Jnrmmm, Fries, 
(Borreri, ‘E. B.,’ ed. hi.), and H. (iothicum, Fries. No doubt 
it sometimes presents a superficial resemblance to H. strictim, 
Fries, but their physiological characters are widely different. 
LikeD. Juranum oxuX H. (iotkicum,ii produces a rosette in seedling 
plants, and in old plants, at the base of the flowering stems in late 
