COMPOSITE. 193 
Var. a, genuintm. 
Radical leaves generally attenuated towards the base, sub- 
acute, dentate ; petioles slightly woolly ; stem-leaf very small and 
- ^ile, or none. Florets bright-yellow. 
Var. 3, obtusifoUim. 
H. obtusifoliutn, Back. Mon. Hier. p. 58. 
First radical leaves rounded at both extremities, nearly or quite 
entire ; petioles very short and shaggy ; stem-leaf rather large, 
shortly stalked. Florets pale-yellow. 
On rocks chiefly in mountainous districts, but apparently much 
less abundant than H. murorum. The specimens in Mr. H. C. 
AVatson's Herbarium and my own are from near Settle and 
Ilawnby, Yorkshire ; Kirkstone, Northumberland ; Braemar, Aber- 
deenshire ; and Durness, Sutherland. Mr. Backhouse considers 
that a plant from Hoy Hill, Orkney, belongs to this species ; but 
the specimens are too immature to enable us with certainty to 
extend the range so far North. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem 9 to 18 inches high. Leaves thicker in texture, more 
glaucous, more attenuated into the petiole than in H. murorum, 
which it very much resembles. Anthodes fewer and considerably 
larger, with more stellate down and white hairs, and fewer gland- 
tipped hairs than in the ordinary state of H. murorum. The 
pericline is much broader and not cylindrical when in fruit. 
The softer hairs, reduced stem-leaves, whiter phyllaries, and yellow 
styles, distinguish it from H. pallidum and nigrescens. Fries says 
of H. caesium, " Folia radicalia * * * subtus stellato-floccosa ;" 
but the British plant has no stellate down on the under side of 
the leaves. Is it the same as Fries's plant ? 
H. obtusifolium I have never seen : Professor Babington refers 
it to II. cajsium. 
Ccesions Haickiceed. 
German, Blliullches llabichtskraut. 
SPECIES XXV— HIERACIUM FLOCCULOSUM. Back. 
Plate DCUCXLVIII 
Back Mon. Hier. p. 60. 
H. floccosum, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 205. 
H. stelligerum, Bad: Mon. Hier. p. 59. Hook. & Am. Brit. FL p. 227 (non Frol). 
H. caesium, Fries, Epic. p. 92. 
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