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Ilieracium.'] xlvi. COMrosnvE : cicnoRACEvE. 
irregularly corymbose at the top, leaves glaucous beneath 
3 -nerved denticulate scarcely amplexicaul lower ones lanceo- 
late intermediate ovate or oblong-lanceolate upper rounded at 
the base, peduncles floecose with few setae, involucre blackish 
sparingly lloecose setose orwith brittle whitish hairs or glabrous, 
scales rather irregularly imbricate adpressed inner ones obtuse, 
ligules at the apex subpilose in bud afterwards almost or 
quite glabrous, styles with dark hairs. H. fruticosum latifo- 
liurn glabrum Ray. 
Sub-alpine districts, perhaps not rare. In Cumberland. Wicklow. 
Argyleshire ; Invernesshire ; Forfarshire; Breadalbane ; and the 
Ocliill hills. !£. 7, 8 This is placed by Mr. Backhouse among 
those with ligules hairy at the apex ; but when that character is to 
be detected at all in this species, it is only while in bud : in that respect 
it is more allied to H. rigidum, from which it differs by the more 
simple inflorescence. 
28. H. umbelldtum L. ( narrow-leaved II.) ; stem corymbose 
or subumbellate at the top, leaves green loosely reticulated 
oblong-lanceolate or linear toothed or entire sessile attenuated 
or rounded at the base, peduncles slender tloccose and the 
involucre glabrous or with few white hairs and no set®, scales 
broad obtuse with recurved points, outermost acute, ligules 
glabrous, styles yellow. — a. leaves flat more or less denti- 
culate, all attenuated or acute at the base. E. B. t. 1771. — ji3. 
leaves broader and ovate at the base. — y. leaves elongated 
very narrow entire revolute at the margin. 
Woods, or stony or rocky places. Rare in Scotland. — /8. near 
Dunkerran, Co. Kerry. — y. Harper’s Island, Lough Neagh, Co. 
Antrim. 7/.. 7 — 9. — The most decidedly marked species of the 
genus. Involucre broadly ovate or subcylindrical, usually dark green 
and glabrous, but sometimes pale, always with recurved points to the 
scales. Achenes slightly scabrous, dark brown. 
29. H. crocdtum Fries ( saffron-coloured II.) ; stem subeorym- 
bose at the top, leaves green paler beneath 3-nerved linear 
lanceolate or oblong lower ones attenuated to a broad base up- 
per broadly rounded or amplexicaul at the base, peduncles with 
few heads, involucre dark green subcylindrical obtuse or trun- 
cate at the base glabrous or with black-based hairs, scales ad- 
pressed broad obtuse, ligules glabrous. H. inuloides Tausch. 
Mountain districts. Teesdale, Craven, and Cleveland. Glenbally 
and Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim; Ballinahinch, Connemara. Near 
Castletown of Braemar. If.. 7, 8. — “ Styles yellow, or rather livid, 
and with minute dark hairs. Pappus nearly white.” — Backhouse. 
“ Stem ] — 3 feet high, glabrous or hairy. Leaves numerous, varying 
in shape from ovate to linear-lanceolate, rigid or flaccid, glabrous or 
bairy. Heads of flowers large, but not so numerous as in II. umbel- 
latum. Allied to II. umhellatum and H. corymbosum, rather than to 
H. boreale.” — Baker in litt. 
