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Composite?. 
slightly villous. Heads large. Upper caul. Is broad, al¬ 
most half-clasping. H. pilosum Lagg. exs. (form with 
narrow Is).—Alp., subalp. and Jura. 7 
villosum Jacq. 1385. *) 
Section 3. Barbata. 
44 (33). Ls intensely glaucous, very villous above, almost 
or entirely glabr. underneath! Stem with neck very 
villous-woolly, often reddish, entirely covered with fine, 
very numerous and extremely long, hairs, gen. inter¬ 
mixed with very short glands.— W. (reported from above 
Fully); Piemont! Savoy! Dauphine! gen. above 2000 m. 7 
*subnivale G. G. 1386. 
— Ls green or faintly glaucous, hairy underneath, glabr. above, 
or hairy on both sides, or glabr. on both sides . £5 
45- Stem 10—15 cm, gen. leafless and 1-headed (comp. var. b.), 
entirely covered with abundant long and simple 
hairs, but without glands or these scarcely visible. 
Ls gen. broader than in H. glanduliferum, always hairy. 
H. Schraderi Koch.—b. ramiferum Gnnl. (alpinum multi- 
florum Schl.!) Stem bearing 2—4 heads and 2—3 fairly 
developed (but always narrowed at the base) caul. ls. 
PI. very villous.—High Alp.; b. Albula! Simplon! Saas- 
thal! Javernaz! 7 . . . piliferum Hoppe. 1387. 
— Stem 10—15 cw, thick, almost always leafless and 1-headed 
(rarely with 2 heads and 2—3 small ls), covered with 
short, black, gen. very abundant glands, but 
almost without long simple hairs, or these only few 
and high up. Ls gen. narrow.—Varied : ls very villous to 
(v. calvescens) almost or entirely glabr. Easily dis¬ 
tinguished from H. alpinum by its glandless ls and 
* glabr. ligules.—High Alp. 7 glanduliferum Hopp. 1388. *) 
— Stem taller, 20—35 cm, slenderer, gen. bearing 2—4 heads, 
covered above with glands (often not numerous) and 
simple scattered hairs. Ls often fairly glabr., the rad. 
narrowed insensibly to the base. Heads distinctly smaller 
than in the last, and with a shorter villosity. FIs gen. 
tubular, with prominent, livid, styles. H. Murithianum 
Favre! 1873. H. penninum Rap. in.! — b. trichocladum 
Arv.-Touv.! Stem low.er, bearing 1—2 heads, covered with 
*) The beautiful H. eriophyllum Willd. (villoso-lanatum. Reut.) with 
hairs very long, extremely numerous, rather crisp and faintly plumose, is 
found in the vallee de Cogne (to the S.E. of Montblanc); common in the 
maritime Alps.! 
*) H. glanduliferum insigne Favre ! from the Simplon, has the broad 
ls and dense villosity of H. piliferum, but with numerous long (!) glandiferous 
hairs; perhaps a hybrid form?— H. fuliginatum (glandulifer.-pllifer.) 
Hut. Gaud.! which Christener notes in Br. on the Simplon, we have only 
seen in the Tyrol. 
