170 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem ;il ways simple, densely clothed with long soft black- 
based hairs, and sparingly with stellate down, occasionally inter- 
mixed with a few short black gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves 
oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, gradually attenuated into the 
petiole, blunt, entire; the inner ones narrower, sub-acute, and 
sometimes sparingly and remotely dentate-serrate; stem-leaves 1 
or 2, small, linear oblanceolate or strapshaped, sometimes absent, 
all sparingly clothed with long woolly hairs on both sides. An- 
tliodes solitary both in the wild and cultivated state. Pericline 
turbinate, narrowed at the base. Inner phyllaries adpressed, acute; 
outer ones lax, broad, obtuse ; all olive-black, very densely clothed 
with very long silky-woolly black-based hairs. Florets hairy 
externally and at the tips. Styles bright yellow. 
Alpine cliffs at an elevation of 2,000 to 3,500 feet. Glen- 
amara, Langdale Pikes, and head of Pierce Gill, Scaw-fell, Cum- 
berland, on slate. Loch-na-gar and Craig Dhuloch, Aberdeen- 
si i ire, on granite. Cliffs of Caness, Canlochen Glen, and to the 
south of Bradoonie, Clova Mountains, Forfarshire, and Ben 
Lawers, Perthshire, on mica-slate (Backhouse). I have myself 
only gathered it on Loch-na-gar. Mr. H. C. Watson has it from 
the north of the Sow of Atholl and Ben Nevis. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Stem 3 to 10 inches high, and, as well as the anthode, much 
more thickly clothed with long silky wool than in any of the other 
species of this group, indeed, of any that have been indicated in 
Britain, except II. villosum. Leaves not so yellow a green, and (if 
my memory does not deceive me) slightly glaucous, narrower, 
blunter, and more gradually attenuated into the petiole, than in 
II. eximium, and almost always quite entire. The outer phyllaries 
are commonly broad, and frequently subfoliaceous. 
In cultivation Mr. Backhouse states it becomes still more dwarf 
and sbaggy, and the stem never produces more than one head. 
Woolly-headed Hawkweed. 
SPECIES VI.-HIERACIUM MEL ANOCEPH ALUM. 
Tausch. 
Plate DCCCXXVIL 
II. ftlpinnm, Back. Mon. Hier. i>. 17. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 200 
II. alpinum, wur. «, Hook h Am. Brit. Fl. p. 218. 
St mi always simple, thickly clothed with stellate down, 
sparingly intermixed with long black-based simple hairs, and 
