101 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem scape-like, corymbosely branched at the apex, sparingly 
clothed with stellate down, the peduncles rather densely so and 
with scattered black gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves sub- 
coriaceous, oval, rather abruptly attenuated at the base into 
rather long slender woolly petioles, sub-acute or sub-obtuse, 
denticulate or dentate, with sharp spreading teeth towards the 
base, clothed with very minute stellate down, especially beneath 
and when young ; stem with 1 or 2, rarely 3 leaves, the lowest 
one rather large, sub-petiolate, with the indistinct petiole winged 
and scmi-amplexicaul ; upper ones much smaller and sessile. 
Anthodes moderately large, 2 to 7, in a lax sub-racemose (?) 
corymb. Peduncles elongate, ascending, usually slightly curved. 
Pericline ovoid at the base ; phyllarics numerous, acuminate, 
dark-olive, sparingly clothed with white-tipped hairs, and a few 
black gland -tipped hairs. Florets sub - glabrous, not ciliated. 
Styles livid-yellow. Plant ashy-green. 
On the margins of alpine streamlets, at an elevation of 1,500 
to 3,000 feet. Ptare. Eastern side of Cairntowl and higher part 
of Glen Dee, cliffs near the Dhuloch and Loch-na-nean, Aber- 
deenshire ; near the Kirktown of Clova, Forfarshire. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
I have never collected this plant, nor seen it in a living state, 
but have a specimen gathered by Mr. Backhouse on the cliffs above 
the Dhuloch. This is about 16 inches high, but Mr. Backhouse 
says it varies from 18 inches to 2 feet. The radical leaves in my 
specimen arc few, with the lamina about equal to the petiole, 
regularly oval at each end, and remotely denticulate, with the 
teeth terminated by callous projections ; the lower stem-leaf is oval- 
elliptical, nearly as large as the radical leaves, and beneath the 
middle of the stem ; the upper stem-leaf is lanceolate and much 
smaller ; all the leaves are stcllately furfuraceous on both sides. 
The anthodes are 4 in number, sub-racemose, considerably smaller 
than those of II. ca3sium, but rather larger than those of II. muro- 
rum ; the phyllaries shorter than in II. caesium, nearly destitute of 
Btellate down, but with many more short black-based hairs inter- 
mixed with a lew ^land-tipped ones. 
Fries quotes this under II. cajsium, with a mark of admiration 
to indicate that he has seen specimens; but it is certainly quite 
distinct from the plant called II. caesium by British botanists, 
although lu; also ([notes H. caesium of Backhouse's British Hieracia 
witli a mark of admiration : besides this he mentions that his II. 
caesium has the leaves with stellate down beneath, while all the 
