168 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
strapshaped or strapshaped - oblanceolate, often bract-like; all 
clothed on both sides with long soft white hairs. Anthode gene- 
rally solitary in the wild plant, more rarely 2 or 3 in a corymb. 
Pcrieline rounded at the base. Phyllaries acute, dark-olive, shaggy, 
with rather long and stiff white hairs with black bases ; the outer 
ones lax. Florets hairy externally and at the tips.* Styles livid. 
Plant green. 
In mountains at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. I have 
gathered it only on Loch-na-gar, Aberdeenshire, but Mr. Backhouse 
states that it is also found in the region between Loch-na-gar and 
the northern part of the Clova district, Corrie of Clova, and damp 
micacious ravine above the Spital of Glen Shee, Forfarshire ; 
apparently most partial to granitic soils. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Hoot-leaves numerous, persistent, narrowed into indistinct 
brondly-winged petioles; the outer ones obtuse ; the inner sub- 
acute, all more or less strongly toothed, especially towards the base ; 
the teeth remote, often longer than broad, spreading ; apical half 
of the leaf generally nearly entire. Anthodes frequently 2 or 3 
inches across. Pericline f inch long. Florets bright-yellow. 
Marygold-floicered Haickweed. 
srECIES IV.— H IERACIUM EXIMIUM. Back. 
Plate DCCCXXV. 
Back. Mod. Hier. p. 20. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 200. 
H. eximium, var. o, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 219. 
Stem simple, or slightly branched at the apex, sparingly clothed 
with stellate down and simple black-based hairs, densely so in the 
upper part, where there are also a few short black gland-tipped 
hairs. Radical leaves elliptical or strapshaped-oblanceolate, very 
gradually attenuated into the petiole, rather acute, remotely 
denticulate or dentate-serrate or inciso-serratc or nearly entire; 
stem-leaves few, often only 1 above the middle of the stem, small, 
Besslle, strapshaped ; all clothed on both sides with long rather 
soli while hairs. Anthodes generally solitary in the wild plant, 
more rarely 2 to 4 in a corymb. Perieline ovoid, rounded or sub- 
in (Ins genus it is necessary to examine the buds before expansion, :is the haitl 
ii the apex uf tin.' ligules arc deciduous. 
