slightly hairy on the upper surface ; upper ones ovate-attenuated,
clasping, without hairs on the upper surface. Leaves
all frequently more or less tinged with purple. Heads rarely
exceeding four, sometimes solitary, large; involucre ventri-
cose, covered with whitish stellate pubescence, long white
hairs with a black base, and black stalked glands, its scales
dark green, the margins paler and almost glabrous. The
florets large, yellow. Receptacle fimbriated. Fruit dark brown
or nearly black, angular, furrowed, scabrous. Pappus rigid,
very brittle, light brown.
Not having seen authentic specimens of Froelich’s plant,
we are unable to state positively that it is the same as that now
figured ; but as our plant agrees more exactly with the description
of his H. Lapeyrousii than with that of any other ol the
188 species described by him in DeCandolle’s Prodromus, it has
been considered better to adopt this nomenclature, rather than
to introduce a new name into this already overloaded genus.
The present figure will enable botanists to identify the British
plant, which was found in 1840 at Garra Head, in the county
of Antrim, by Mr. David Moore, and in the upper part of
Teesdale, both in Durham and Yorkshire, by the writer,
in 1842. The specimen figured was gathered near Winch
Bridge in Teesdale, on the 9th of August, 1843.—C. C. B.