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rarely more than callous points, sub-glabrous above or with very 
short hairs, glaucous beneath, with the network formed by the 
ultimate veins very distinct, generally with moderately long hairs 
on the veins and margins, and sometimes with distant short 
hairs all over the lower surface. Anthodcs small, numerous, 
in a compound corymb or short panicle terminated by a corymb, 
with slender very short diverging pedicels, which are mostly desti- 
tute of small bracts, except one or two beneath the anthode. Peri- 
cline ovate at the base ; phyllaries few, in 2 irregular series ; the 
outer ones very few and short, rather lax, sub-acute, concolorous ; 
the inner ones obtuse, with paler margins ; all blackish-olive, with 
numerous short black and gland-tipped hairs, and a little stellate 
down. Ligules ciliated at the apex. Styles livid-yellow. Achenes 
small, pale reddish-brown. 
On the margins of streams and woody ravines. Not uncommon 
in sub-alpine districts. In Teesdale and Western Yorkshire ; 
Cheviots and Pentlands, in the South of Scotland; Clova, Braemar, 
and Breadalbane, in the North. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Stem erect, rather stout, 1 to 3 feet high, generally purplish 
below, with the leaves rather thinly scattered over the whole 
stem, but many of those on the lower part of it generally 
withered by the time of flowering ; the lower ones narrowed at the 
base, but they can seldom be called distinctly petiolate ; those in 
the middle third of the stem enlarged and clasping at the base, 
then slightly contracted, attaining their greatest width beyond 
the middle, from whence they taper gradually to the apex, 
so that they present somewhat the shape of the sole of a shoe ; 
generally with remote callous points on the margin, more rarely 
with distinct teeth, beautifully reticulated on the under surface, 
which is decidedly glaucous. Anthodcs small, about the size of 
those of II. murorum ; and, as in that plant, the pedicels and phyl- 
laries are thickly clothed with black gland-tipped hairs. 
H. prenanthoides cannot well be confounded with any of the 
preceding species ; it has the leaves more amplexieaul than in any 
of them ; and, besides the small size of the anthodes, the phyl- 
laries are reduced to one row, with a few shorter ones on the out- 
side, and, as well as the peduncles, clothed with numerous gland- 
tipped hairs. 
Bough-leaved Jlawkweed. 
French, Epervicre a FeuiUes de Prenanthe. 
