In the confusion that exists throughout the whole of 

 Compositse, it is no easy task to say whether a genus is 

 published or unpublished. The present may have made 

 its appearance in some work with which we are unac- 

 quainted, or in some place that we have not succeeded in 

 discovering. We believe, however, that it is new. It 

 differs from all the Corymbiferous genera with hairy 

 pappus, in having an outer squarrose involucrum, and 

 an inner one formed of a number of erect, channelled 

 scales. Its nearest affinity is probably Munnozia, from 

 which it differs in the scales of the involucrum not being 

 trifid at the extremity, and in its alternate leaves. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, somewhat branched, about 

 two feet high, striated, covered with hairs and viscid 

 glands. Leaves simple, sessile, stem - clasping, ovate- 

 lanceolate, somewhat pinnatifid, pale green, glandular on 

 each side. Heads corymbose, radiant. Peduncles with 

 a few bracteae, densely glandular. Involucrum double, 

 hemispherical; the outer in a single row, consisting of 

 numerous subulate, glandular, squarrose scales, occa- 

 sionally bifid at the apex ; the inner campanulate in a 

 single row, consisting of several erect channelled scales, 

 somewhat squarrose at the apex, smooth on the inside, 

 glandular on the outside. Florets of the ray female, ligu- 

 late, entire, or somewhat trifid at the apex, with a long 

 filiform tube. Florets of the disc hermaphrodite, filiform, 

 tubular, with a small, 5-toothed, erect limb. Stamens 

 without appendages at the base. Receptacle smooth. 

 Style filiform. Stigmas 2, linear, spreading, truncate and 



shaggy at the apex. Fruit smooth, striated. Pappus 



hairy, roughish 



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