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sometimes a few short black gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves 
obovate-spathulate, abruptly attenuated into the petiole, obtuse ; 
inner ones narrower and more acute ; all generally slightly dentate 
or serrate - dentate, with a few projecting teeth, sub-glabrous 
above, sparingly clothed with long woolly hairs beneath and on 
the margins; stem-leaves 1 or 2 (rarely 3); the lower one rather 
large, strapshaped-oblanccolate, sub-petiolate ; the upper one 
small, strapshaped, sessile, frequently absent. Anthodes solitary, 
both in the wild and cultivated state. Pericline hemispherical, 
rounded at the base. Phyllaries all rather lax, broad, acute (a few 
of the outer ones sometimes obtuse), nearly black, very densely 
clothed with short silky-woolly black-based and black hairs, in- 
terspersed with a few short black gland-tipped hairs. Florets 
hairy externally and at the tips ; the hairs at the tips short. 
Styles bright-yellow. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Radical leaves ovate-spathulate. 
Var. 0, insigne. 
" Radical leaves lanceolate, with a few large teeth." — 
(Bab. Man.) 
On mountains, at an elevation of 3,000 or 4,000 feet. I have 
collected it only on Loch-na-gar, and at the head of Glen Callater ; 
but, according to Mr. Backhouse, it also occurs at Corrie of Ben- 
na-bourd, Braeriach, Cairntowl, Ravine of the Garachary, and 
Little Craigindal, Aberdeenshire, on granite ; Glen Dole, Clova 
Mountains, Forfarshire, on mica-slate. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Stem 3 to 10 inches high, much more densely clothed with 
stellate down than any of the preceding, with the simple black- 
ed hairs rather short and few. Mr. Backhouse says " nearly or 
quite destitute of setae " (gland-tipped hairs) ; but several speci- 
mens in my own herbarium, named H. alpinum by Mr. Backhouse, 
have the stem thickly clothed with them. Leaves more suddenly 
attenuated into a petiole than in the three preceding, and not hairy 
on the upper side; the outer ones, as in the whole of this group, 
broader than the others ; so that the more leaves the plant pro- 
duces in the rosette, the narrower the innermost ones become. 
Pericline J inch or more long, much blacker and more satiny than 
iu the three preceding, in this, and in the shape of the leaves, show- 
ing an evident approach to the next three species, as well as by the 
