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PopoOLEPIS GRACILIS. SLENDER-STALKED 
Popo.LerPis. | 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Involucrum subglobosum, scariosum, squamis stipitatis. 
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus scaber. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Popo.erts * gracilis ; herbacea, glabra, foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis basi trinerviis amplexicaulibus glaberrimis, 
inferioribus obtusis, superioribus acutis, involucri 
Squamis levibus. F: 
Povoteris gracilis. Graham in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. for 
_ July, 1828. Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 285. 
a 
Descr. Root slender, subfusiform, annual, fibrous. 
em one to two feet high, erect, slender, terete, wiry, pur- 
Plish, quite glabrous, as is the rest of the plant ; branched 
Upwards in a paniculated manner. Leaves alternate, remote, 
ark-green above, paler beneath, oblongo-lanceolate, quite 
entire at the base, three nerved, and embracing the stem : 
€ lowermost ones more or less cordate at their insertion, 
very obtuse at the point, the rest acute, or even acuminate. 
ers numerous, terminal, purple, showy. Peduncles 
slender, scaly, the scales scariose. Jnvolucre almost glo- 
» Of many closely imbricated, scariose, almost white 
Seales ; the outer ones oval, very obtuse, with a short fe 
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om xs, wodes, a foot, and Agwy, a scale. So named by LABILLARDIERE, 
Mm the pedicellated scales of the inyolucre. 
