17 1 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES IX.— HIERACIUM CHR YS ANTHUM. Bach. 
Plates DCCCXXX. DCCCXXXI. 
Back Mmi. lli.r. p. 34. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 202. Hook, k Am. Brit. FL 
ed. viii. p. 221. 
II. pul.nouarium, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2307(1). 
Stem simple or corymbosely branched at the apex, more or less 
clothed with stellate down, intermingled above with black gland- 
tippcd hairs and a few simple black or black-based hairs, and 
below with white simple hairs. Radical leaves rather thin, oval or 
elliptical, suddenly (or the inner ones gradually) contracted into 
rather long woolly petioles, acute (or the outer ones obtuse), 
coarsely and very irregularly serrate-dentate, often with a few long 
and very acute teeth near the base, hairy or sub-glabrous ; stem 
generally with a few small bract-like leaves, the lowest one often 
much larger, attenuated at the base, and resembling the radical 
leaves. Anthodes solitary, or more often 2 or more in a corymb. 
Pericline rounded at the base. Phyllaries rather narrow ; outer 
ones small, rather lax ; all acute, nearly black, thickly clothed with 
short black hairs, mixed with numerous gland-tipped ones, and 
sometimes a few black-based hairs. Elorets sub-glabrous exter- 
nally, slightly pilose at the tips. Styles yellow. Plant green. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Plate DCCCXXXI. 
11. rapestre, Bab. olim (non AIL). 
Anthodes usually slightly drooping ; leaves very unequally inciso- 
serrate-dentate. Pericline broad. Styles bright-yellow. 
Var. /3, microcephalum. Back. 
Plate DCCCXXXII. 
II. atratum, Bab. olim (non Fries). 
Anthodes usually erect; leaves more evenly dentate, some- 
times nearly entire. Pericline smaller, narrower. Styles slightly 
livid. 
On mountains, at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Not un- 
common. In the Braemar and Clova districts, and in Inverness 
and Sutherland. Var. on Cairntowl and Loch-na-gar, Aberdeen- 
Bhire ; cliffs above Lochwharral, Clova; slate rocks of Stridden 
Edge and Glara-mara, Cumberland. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
