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PrarNacevM iNcANUM. Hoary _ 
# 7 PHARNACEUM. “ay 
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Class and Order. 
PENTANDRIA T'RIGYNIA. 
Generic Character. hart 
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Cal, 5phyilus. Cor. 0. f Caps. 3-loc cularis, pélyapeiiia, - 
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P Specific Character and Synonyms. 
PHARNACEUM incanum ; pedunculis proliferis, foliis subulatis 
aristatis in nodulos congestis, stipulis setaceis, stigma- 
tibus petaliformibus. = 
PHARNACEUM incanum; pedunculis communibus longissimis, 
foliis linearibus, stipulis pilosis. Linn. Suppl. 186. 
Willd. Sp. Pl.1.1510. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 174. 
Puarnaceum pedunculis communibus longissimis. Hort. 
Cliff. 492. foliis linearibus. Mant. 358. 
Puarnaceum incanum; foliis teretibus mucronatis stipulis 
setaceis, umbellis terminalibus. Thunb. Prodr. 54. 
Atsine forte, seu Lycunis africana, foliis lariceis tenuissime _ 
divisis, floribus fere umbellatis. Pluk. Alm. p. 23. 
Phyt. t. 304. f. 4. ‘he ; 
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Descr. Stem shrubby, dwarf; branches white, by the 
remains of the hair-like stipules. Leaves at first scattered, 
but these soon fall off and leave the stems bare, except ‘at the 
ends and about the divisions of the branches, where they are 
awl-shaped, smooth, terminated with a bristle or awn, and — 
collected into round nodules with hair-like stipules intermixed.) _ 
From these nodules proceed the long filiform peduncles, 
dividing into proliferous umbels. Calyx 5-leaved, green 
externally with a membranaceous margin, and white Ate 
/ Corolla 
