188 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
on the under side and margins ; stem-leaves 1 to 3, the lowest 
ones sessile and semi-amplexicaul, or subsessile, elliptical-strap- 
shaped, the upper ones usually bract-like. Anthodes rather 
large, 2 to 4, in a corymb, or more when the stem is branched 
from near the base. Pericline- at length truncate below; phyl- 
lariea rather numerous, rather broad, subacute, or the outer ones 
obtuse, dark-olive, very sparingly clothed with stellate down, espe- 
cially towards the margins, and with a few simple white or black- 
based hairs and short black gland-tipped hairs. Florets glabrous, 
not ciliated. Styles yellow. Plant intensely glaucous, 
In mountainous districts. At the foot of Snowden, North 
Wales ; Melbreak, near Crummock Water, and Great End, Cum- 
berland ; Clova District ; Castlcton of Braemar, and Craig Dhu- 
loch, Aberdeen ; Isle of Harris, in the Hebrides. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Radical leaves, or at least the inner 
ones, very long and narrow. Peduncles elongated, rigid. Buds 
cylindrical, with the ends of the phyllaries reflexed. This plant I 
have never gathered, and have seen but a single British specimen, 
which was collected in Glen Dole, Clova, by Dr. George Lawson. 
Silvery Hawkweed. 
SPECIES XXL— H ISRACIUM NITIDUM. Back. 
Plate DCCCXLIV. 
Back. Mon. Hier. p. 50. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 204. Hook. & Am. Brit. FL 
ed. viii. p. 225. 
II. pallidum, persicifolium, Fries, Epic. p. 84. 
Stem scape-like, corymbosely branched at the apex, wiry, 
glabrous, the upper part and peduncles with stellate down and 
gland-tipped hairs, and a few white simple hairs. Badical leaves 
elliptical or narrowly elliptical, gradually contracted into rather 
short slightly-winged and slight h-woolly petioles, very coarsely 
toothed in the lower half, acute or subacute, glabrous above, 
sparingly clothed with rather soft woolly hairs on the under 
side and margins ; stem with a single leaf, sub-pctiolate when 
near the bottom of the stem, sessile when near the middle, 
narrower than the root-leaves, very acute, and coarsely dentate. 
Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 5, in a corymb, or more when 
the stem is branched from below the corymb. Pericline hemi- 
