Tas. 7680. 
BERLANDIERA TomentTosa. 
Native of the Southern United States. 
Nat. Ord. Composit#2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDES, 
Genus Bertanviera, DC.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 350.) 
BERLANDIERA tomentosa; tota pannoso-tomentosa, canescens v. glabrata, 
caule 1-14-pedali simplici v. ramoso, foliis inferioribus oblongis v. ovato- 
oblongis obtusis crenatis basi in petiolum sewpissime elongatum superne 
anguste alatum angustatis, supra Jete viridibus, nervis subtus validis, 
supremis sessilibus dentatis, capitulis subeorymbosis 1-2 poll. latis, 
involucri hemispherici bracteis orbicularibus. herbaceis villosis, fl. radii 
‘ ad 8 fem., corollae tubo brevissimo limbo aureo oyali-oblongo 2-lobo, 
lobis rotundatis, styli ramis filiformibus elongatis obtusis brunneis, fl. 
disci masc., ovario gracili stipitiformi elongato piloso, corolla tubo 
cylindraceo glaberrimo lobis 4 brevibus intus pubescentibus brunneis, 
antheris exsertis, stylo columnari integro pubescente, acheniis late 
obovatis compressis facie interiore villosis. 
B. tomentosa, Nutt. mn Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Ser. ii. vol. vii. (1841) p. 343. 
Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 282. Chapm. Fl. 8. U. States, 
p. 221. Gray Synopt. Flor. N. Am, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 243, 
B. pumila, Nutt. l.c. 
Silphiam pumilum, Micha. Fl. Bor. Am, vol. ii. p. 246. 
S. tomentosum pumilum & reticulatum ? Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. vol. ii. pp. 578, 
579. 
S. asteriscus, var. pumilum, Wood, Class-book of Bot. p. 442. 
Polymnia caroliniana, Poir. Dict. vol. v. p. 505. 
J. L. Berlandier was a Genevese botanist who explored 
parts of Texas and Mexico, and who died at Matamoros on 
the Gulf of Mexico in 1851. The genus named after 
him consists of four species, natives of the south-eastern 
United States. B. tomentosa inhabits Pine barrens from 
N. Carolina to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and 
Missouri. Seeds of it were presented to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, in 1898, by the Rev. L. H. Lighthipe of Jackson- 
ville, Florida, plants from which flowered in a cool green- 
house in May and June of this year. The flowers proved 
very persistent. 
Descr.—A slender, herbaceous, sparsely leafy perennial, 
twelve to twenty-four inches high, more or less hoary or 
cottony, or glabrate. Lower leaves oblong, or ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, crenate, narrowed into a petiole two to 
OctToBER Ist, 1899, 
