COMVOSITiE. 173 
This plant comes very near II. melanocephalum, but the stem- 
leaves are more developed, the lower ones generally nearly equal 
in size to the radical ones; the pericline is smaller, and blacker 
from a greater number of the hairs being destitute of white points. 
The florets are more glabrous on the back, and the styles duller 
yellow. The plant is also of a lighter green. 
Slender Haickweed. 
SrECIES VIII— H IERACIUM GLOBOSUM. Back. 
Plate DCCCXXIX. 
Mod. Hier. p. 25. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 201. Hook, k Ai-n. Brit. Fl. 
ed. \ iii. p. '220. 
Stem usually simple, very sparingly clothed with stellate down 
and black gland-tipped hairs, intermixed with long black-based 
limple hairs. Radical leaves obovate or oblanceolate, "abruptly" 
backhouse) or gradually attenuated into the petiole, obtuse ; the 
inner ones narrower and sub-acute ; all denticulate or serrate- 
dentate or entire, more rarely coarsely toothed, glabrous or nearly 
ibove, generally hairy beneath and on the margins; stem- 
leaves few, small, rarely 2 to 4 and large ; the lower ones oblan- 
ceolate, attenuated into a petiole ; the upper one, or all, strap- 
>liaped-lanceolate, sessile. Anthodes solitary or rarely 2 to 4 in a 
corymb, globose in bud. Pericline hemispherical, rounded at the 
•. Phyllaries narrow, very acute, olive-black, densely clothed 
with rather short black-based and black hairs, interspersed with 
short black gland-tipped ones. Florets sub-glabrous, externally 
glabrous, or slightly pilose at the tips. Styles bright-yellow. 
Plant green or glaucous. 
On granite and felspar, at an elevation of 2,500 to 4,500 feet. 
I have gathered it only on Cairntowl, but it occurs also on Ben- 
na-main, Ben-na-muic-dhui, and the north side of Little Craigindal, 
Braemar. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
This plant comes very near H. gracilentum; but the anthodes 
are considerably larger, the phyllaries much narrower, longer, more 
acute, and not so black; the buds are more globose. I cannot find 
tangible difference in the shape of the leaves, judging from 
my specimens, which are authenticated by Mr. Backhouse. 
Globose-headed Hawkweed. 
