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HELIOPSIS canescens 



Peruvian Heliopsis. 



SYNGENESIA POLYG.^MI.i SVPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord> Composite. Adansonfam. 2. 103. 



Corymbifera:. Jussieugen, 177. Viv. VL 



Heliantheje. Cassini injaum. dephys. 88 (a» 1819)- 191. 



HELIOPSIS, Involucrum (calyx) polyphyllum, imbricatum. RecepU 



conicum paleaceum. Flosculi disci tubulosi, hermaphroditi ; radii ligulati, 



feminei. Ackenia (semirta) apice calva, Herba oppoHtifolite, Flares 



tcmiinaleSf solitarii, pedunculati, ftam. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 4* 212. 



H. canescens^ foliis cordato^ovatis uttinque villosis, iavolucro biseriato im- 



bricato, ramis erectis bifaridm pilosis. Don MSS. 

 Heliopsis canescens. Knnth nov. gen* et spec. 4. 212. 

 Heliopsis rugosa. H&rt beroL MSS. 

 Helianthus buphthalmoides, Hortulanis, 



HelenomoLum canescens. &rb. WiUdenovii; (^de D. Kuntk^) 

 Helianthus cordatus. Herbar* peruv. penes D> Lambert, 



Herba /acie omninb Helianthi, perennis, radice ramosd. Caules nu- 

 merosi, atbcendentes, teretes, subtripedales, infemh glahri nitidi, svpemS 

 bifaridm piloH, rotfutti ramis oppwUis, erectis, caules scepius guperantiims, 

 iterum dwisis*, Fol. me^tbranacea, petiolata^ lato^ovataf acuminata, ser- 

 rata, utrinque virentia, hirtiUs viUosa (juniara caneseentia), reticulato-ve- 

 nasa, 2-3-po/Iicarta v. ultrd iatitudine sesqui-bipoUieari, ban subcordato- 

 rotunda, rariits petiolum versOs cuneata : petiolus ter bret>iaf lamind v* ultrd, 

 mbtils glabcTj suprd hirto-canesccTis canaliculatus. Pedunculi terminales, 

 erecti, cylindrici, stAsukati, &-faridm pihsi, cunescentes, juxta Jlorem cla- 

 vati jfistulosi ; primarii ratnis lateralibus bremores hisque aborHentibvs axil- 

 Iwiium nsmulL Flores aurei, nmgnitudine Inul£ britannicae. Invol. (cal.) 

 biseriatum, villoso-canescens, foliolis spathulato-lanceolatis, trinerviis, mu- 

 croHulatis, intimis plurimum minoribus, Kecept. conicum, paleaceum : 

 palesB lineari-ol^UmgiB, obtustB, carhtatw^ flosculos sigiUattm complectentes, 

 apice flaviB. Flosc. disci hermaphr.^ tuhulosi^ glabri, deorsitm attenuati, 

 limbi laciniis bremssimis acutis reoolutis: radii jemtn., Uneari-oblongi, 3- 

 dentato-retust Anth, inclasa, nigra, Germen breve, angulatum: stylus 

 basi gihboms: stigmata exserta, recurvatim replicata^ lineaii^, viUosa, in- 

 crassato-apiculata, Achenia (semina) subovata ^-angula, papilhso^miean- 

 tia, epapposa, Don MSS. 



While at Paris last summer, we were gratified with the 

 inspection of the Herbarium collected by Messrs. Hum- 

 boldt and Bonpland in South America, from which the 

 great work of the vegetable discoveries of those celebrated 

 ti-avellere is at this moment editing by M. Kunth. It was 



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