200 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. a, gcniiinum. 
Stem slender, with several or numerous leaves. Leaves strap- 
shaped- elliptical or elliptical; radical leaves withering before 
flowering. Anthodes rather large. Styles livid-yellow. 
Var. /3, latlfolium. Back. 
Stem stout, with few leaves. Leaves broadly elliptical or 
oval-elliptical, those in the middle attenuated towards each end ; 
radical leaves sub-persistent. Anthodes large. Styles pure yellow. 
On heathy and grassy plains. In sub-alpine districts. In Wales, 
on Cader Idris, Snowden, and about Llanberis ; Teesdale, York- 
shire; Clova and Braemar, Scotland. Var. 0, heathy hillocks, 
near Kirktown of Clova ; Connemara and Carrickfergus, Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Apparently a very variable plant, with which I have but an 
imperfect acquaintance, having seen but few specimens. Stem 1 
to 4 feet high, erect, rigid, in var. a with numerous narrow leaves. 
Anthodes large. Phyllaries obtuse, nearly glabrous, but usually 
with a line of short white or white-tipped hairs in the middle ol 
each, or sometimes gland- tipped hairs. 
Fries makes the chief dhTerence between his H. Gothicum and 
II. Norvegicum consist in the former having gland-tipped hairs 
on the blackish-green sub-glabrous phyllaries, while the latter has 
glandless white hairs on its pale stellately - downy phyllaries. 
We appear to have both plants, but the glandular phyllaries do 
not always occur on the narrow-leaved plants, nor are the gland- 
less hairs confined to the broad-leaved forms ; so that the latter 
cannot belong to II. Norvegicum of Fries, as suspected by Professor 
n.ibington. Were it not for the differences of a similar nature 
which occur between different forms of II. vulgatum, I could 
hardly have believed that the var. latifolium could be properly 
united with the ordinary state of H. Gothicum. 
All the forms of II. Gothicum seem to be distinguishable from 
those of II. vulgatum with leafy stems by the larger anthodes and 
the sub-glabrous pcriclinc with blunt phyllaries. 
I must confess that I do not well understand the limits 
assigned to H. Gothicum by Mr. Backhouse : some of the specimens 
in Mr. II. C. Watson's Herbarium and in my own, which have 
been named II. Gothicum by Mr. Backhouse, I should have called 
II. vulgatum, others II. boreale. 
Naked-headed Hawk weed. 
