ENGLISH BOTANY. 
A very distinct species, with a peculiar rigid habit. Stems 
8 to 21 indies high. Leaves elongate, with harsh bulbous-based 
hairs on the upper surface; petioles very short and indistinct; 
stem-leaves large in proportion. Phyllaries rather broad at the 
base, but tapering gradually to the apex, not at all silky, the points 
projecting beyond the florets in bud. 
Mr. H. C. "Watson possesses a form with the leaves sub- 
glabrous. 
Lvngulate-leaved Hawkweed. 
Group B.— AMPLEXICAULIA. 
Plant yellowish-green, rarely glaucous, viscid-glandulose ; hairs 
on the stem and leaves gland-tipped. Neck of the root-stalk clothed 
with fibres. Radical leaves in a rosette, persistent until after 
flowering ; stein with few or rather few large leaves. Phyllaries 
acuminated, with glandular hairs. Florets ciliated. Achenes large, 
brownish-black. 
SPECIES XIIL— HIE RACIUM AMPLEXIC AULE. Linn. 
Plate DCCCXXXV. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MD. 
lluok & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 222. 
Stem paniculately and corymbosely branched at the apex, clothed 
with short yellowish gland-tipped hairs. E,adical leaves oblanceolate 
or oblong-oblanceolate, gradually contracted into short petioles, 
sub-obtuse, remotely dentate or serrate-dentate, clothed with 
short gland-tipped hairs above and beneath ; stem-leaves 1 to G, 
large, the lower ones oblanceolate or oblong ; upper leaves and 
bracts at the base of the corymbs broadly ovate, acuminate ; all 
amplexicaul, with large rounded auricles. Anthodes numerous, 
in corymbs at the extremity of the stem and branches. Pericline 
ovate at the base. Phyllaries numerous, acuminate, rather lax, 
green, thickly clothed with gland -tipped hairs. Florets sub- 
glabrous, ciliated at the apex. Styles yellow. 
Naturalized on the walls of Magdalen College, Oxford, and on 
the Avails of Clcish Castle, Kinross ; also said to have been found 
on a rod called the Garric Barns, Clova, Forfarshire, by G. Don; 
bui no one else lias been able to detect its presence there, and 
Dr< \\ nlkvr-Arnott says the specimen in his horbarium, labelled 
by Don himself, is evidently a cultivated one. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Late Summer. 
