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ENCELIA canteens. 
Hoary Encelia. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Nat. ord. Composite. Sect. IlcUa/ithna' C'ds.suii. 
ENCELIA Adans. — Involncrnm polyphylliim, inibricatiini. Kcceptu- 
cvlum conicuni, pale;iceum. Flosculi disci tul)tilosi, hcrmaphroditi ; radii 
ligulati neutri. Akenia obovata, compressa, margine villosa, apiee emargi- 
nata, et calva. Suffrutices ramosi. Folia alterna, integra, trinervia. 
Flores terminaie$, long^ pedunculati, subcon/mbosi, Jiavi. Kunth. sy- 
nc^>8u, 2.467. 
E. canescens ; foliis ovatis trinerviis molUbuft altemis, flonbus corymboMS. 
Cav.icmes. A5. t.Q\. 
CJoreopsis limensis. Jacq. ic. 3. t. 594. 
E. canescens. Lam. encycl. 2.356. Pers. syn. 2.479. Kunth. I. c. 
Pallasia halimifolia. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 2260. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 5.137. 
SufFrutex 2-pedaliSt catile moUif pubescente, terete, ad apicem Jblioso. 
Folia lata, ovata, triangttlaria, obtwa, trinervia, incuna, in petiolo sub-decur- 
rentia, basi cwieatay fUrpu^ moUiter velutmiy longi petiolata ^jpgtitiis vUr 
hsiSf SHpetiord tnteg^rmai inferitira imvejM snbde^ 
nale$, genuxif longi pedmculaHi^tdnneahpiia ^nifpettemiibus^ intertextia 
villoso, supri tnedium brqcted solHarid, watd^ subsesnli, kmatd, rttcurvd, 
svbcompUceUd. JblYOlucni|il villomsimum, duplex y patens, exterias 8-fhjfl- 
lum; foliolis omto-ktnceotatis, obtusis, torquatiSf intenus folio^ toikkm 
angustioribus, altemis, assurgentUms. FlosCuii radii ft</«, circiter 12, tmi- 
labiati, ligulati, lati, cuneati subplicati, invicem imbricati, omnino sterilesy 
rudimento ovarii nbortivo, ohsoleto ; discoidei fwm, hermaphroditi, infundi' 
bidares, basi tcretes, glanduloso-pilosi, apicem versHs villis paucis patentibus 
aspersi, intiis atro-purpurei, in paled cymbiformi, ipsarum longitudine, vil- 
losd, (jraminum glumcE siynillimu involnti. Antherae atro-purpurem basi 
muticce, apicc mcmbranace(2 ovatcB. Ovarium co/nprt ssum, tenuc, ohovatum, 
truncatum, pilosum, utrinquc villis diaphanis manjinatmn. Pappus 7i?<Z/mJ. 
Stylus Jiliformis, glnber, apice purpurcus. Stigmata Unanm, rtcurva, 
papulosa, atro-purpurea. Receptaculum foveatum, paleis cymbiformibuSf 
stqrrd'dictit tqvamahon. ■Jjf^'" 
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For the intioduction of this pretty genus of Com- 
positae the public is i^ebted to Robert Barclay, Esq., of 
