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Mono.topiA MAJor. LarGer MOonovopia. 
Jeb HEedebieiek 
Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz.—SenecionipEx. DC. ) 
Generic Character. 
Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radi feemineis 
ligulatis interdim subbilabiatis, disci tubulosis hermaphro- 
ditis sterilibus aut masculis, tubo tenui hispidulo, fauce dila- 
lata. Invol. squama 8—10 uniserialz ad medium concretes. 
Recept, convexum aut subconicum epaleaceum. Anthere 
ecaudata. Styli radii rami cono brevi superati. Achenia 
calva glabra, radii obcompressa aut subtrigona, disci com- 
pressa.—Herbz Californice annua, erecte, albo-tomentose. 
Folia alterna, oblonga-linearia, integra aut parce dentata 
‘seu loculata. Capitula ad apicem caulis aut ramorum ter- 
minalia ebracteata. Flores lutez. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Monotor1a* major ; foliis ligulatis obscure dentatis obtusis 
basi latioribus semiamplexicaulibus, ligulis involucro 
triplo longioribus. 
Monotorr1a major. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 74. Hook. Ie. 
Pl. t. 4. t| 844. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. 
p. 359. 
Few persons on first seeing this rampant plant, with its 
dark green foliage, as growing in our gardens, (under the 
name too of “ Hetentum Douglasii”) would suspect that it 
was the same with the small and hoary Monotoria major ths 
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* From the Greek word jovorowes, bearing a single tunic, oF garment, in 
usion to the structure of the Involucre. De Cand. 
