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Sinn 3 to IS inches high. Primary radical loaves ovatc-spathu- 
late, rather blunt; the inner ones narrower, more attenuated at, 
the base, and acute; all generally dentate and frequently with 
some of the teeth, especially those towards the base, much length- 
ened, very acute, pointing or curving forwards. Petioles and base 
of the stem woolly with long white hairs. Anthodes very large 
when solitary, smaller when 2 or 3 together. Pcricline very 
black, frequently without any of the hairs white at the apex. 
The monoeephalous forms of this species present considerable 
resemblance to H. melanocephalum, II. gracilentum, and II. glo- 
bosum ; but the leaves have generally much longer and more 
irregular teeth ; the petioles and base of the stem are more clothed 
with white woolly hairs ; the phyllaries are much more slender, 
and destitute of the silky appearance which those species present ; 
fchey are often destitute of any white -tipped hairs. The poly- 
ccphalous forms are much more common in H. chrysanthum than 
in 11. gracilentum and II. globosum, and do not occur in H. melano- 
oephalum. 
Golden-Jloicered Haiolcweed. 
SPECIES X.— HIE RACIUM NIGRESCENS. Willd. 
Plate DCCCXXXII. 
Mon. Ilier. p. 28. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 202. Hook & Am. Brit. FL 
ed. viii. p. 221. Fries, Epic. p. 44. 
Stem simple or corymbosely branched at the apex, more or less 
el "thed with stellate down and black gland-tipped hairs, occa- 
sionally intermingled with black or black-based simple hairs, and 
below with white simple hairs. Radical leaves sub-coriaceous, oval 
or elliptical, rather suddenly (or the inner ones gradually) con- 
tracted into hairy petioles, acute, coarsely and irregularly dentate- 
wrrate, sub-glabrous or hairy ; stem generally with 1, more rarely 
-. small strapshaped leaves, sometimes bract-like ; the lower one 
attenuated at the base, much smaller than the radical leaves. 
Anthodes solitary, or more often with 2 or more in a corymb, 
and occasionally branches beneath it also terminated by anthodes. 
Pericline ovate at the base. Phyllaries broad, acute, cuter ones 
obtuse, all nearly black, thickly clothed with short black and 
black-based hairs, intermixed with gland-tipped ones and small 
yellowish glands. Plorets sub-glabrous externally, slightly pilose 
;it the tips. Styles olive-brown. Plant green. 
On highland mountains, at an elevation of 2,000 to 3,000 feet, 
r »n granite, mica-slate, hornblende, &c. ; but I have never gathered 
