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called, nicaemis, which has this more glandular involucre in com- 
huiation with brown, instead of yellow, stigmas, achenes narrowed 
and scabrous at the top, and outer perianth spreading. Your 
specimens are rather too young to judge fairly of these last two 
points. Nicceensis comes between biennis and virens, and is likely 
enough to he introduced with foreign seed.” July 11th, I sent to 
Mr. Baker a few of the most mature dried specimens I had, and 
also enclosed a few fresh-gathered ones. I received the following 
reply : “I feel satisfied now that the Crepis is really nicccensis. 
Fruiting involucre and achenes of yours agree with undoubted 
continental examples, and I find the beak being scabrous to be an 
inconstant character. I send 50 specimens for distribution. — 
Thomas J. Foggitt. On the north bank of the Tweed, near Spring 
Hall, Roxburgh. June, 1874-76. This is a very variable plant, 
as will be seen from specimens sent. — Andrew Beothekston. 
Occasionally seen about Plymouth, as an introduction with grass 
and clover seeds. — T. R. A. B. This plant seems to be becoming 
more frequent, though doubtless introduced with grass seeds. The 
flowers of Mr. Foggitt’s specimens are considerably smaller than 
usual, and, if this be frequently the case, no doubt the plant would 
be liable to be passed over as C. virens. — J. T. Boswell. 
Hieracium pratense, Tausch. Roadside to the east of Edinburgh, 
in large quantity. June 20, 1876. — A. Craig-Cheistie. This is 
quite the same as the Selkirkshire plant of which Mr. A. Brotherston 
has been good enough to send me a wild example. I have now no 
doubt of its being H. pratense. I hear it is almost extinct in 
Selkirkshire. — J. T. Boswell. I have this growing by Mr. Christie’s 
kindness. It seems the true plant, and the H. cluhium of the 
‘ Manual,’ ed. vii. — C. C. Babington. 
“ H. casmm, Fries.” Cwm-glas-bach, Snowdon, N. Wales. 
June, 1876. — Augustin Ley. Certainly — J. T. Boswell. 
Hieracium ‘dwarfed casitim, J. G. Baker.’” Creag-na-dal-beg, 
S. Aberdeenshh-e. July 14, 1876. — Augustin Ley. I should call 
this H. pallidum without hesitation. — J. T. Boswell. 
H. (jothicum, Fries. Very sparingly on a steep woody bank of 
the Wear, Bishop Auckland, S. Durham. August 3, 1876. — J. P. 
SOUTTER. 
H. stricUim, Fries. Aberdona, Clackmannanshire. September, 
1876. — T. Drummond. I think this must be called H. crocatum, 
Fries. — J. T. Boswell. 
H. Dexvari, mihi; H. stxietxim in paid. Back. Stem sparingly 
leafy, slightly corymbosely or sub-corymbosely branched at the 
apex, scabrous, sparingly woolly, with spreading or retrorse white 
hairs ; peduncles sparingly clothed with stellate down, with few 
black-based hairs and a very few black gland-tipped ones. Rosettes 
of radical leaves, produced on seedling plants, and in late autumn 
on plants which have flowered. Leaves of the rosette oval, rather 
abruptly attenuated into short sparingly woolly petioles, sub-acute, 
slightly denticulate, with the teeth often reduced to callous pro- 
tuberances, sparingly hairy, with rather long white haii's above, 
and distinctly ciliated with similar hairs round the margins. 
