of the Class Composita. 197 
2. C. hieracioides, glabriuscula; caule subnudo tereti, involucri 
foliolis cuneato-lanceolatis acutis. 
In Brasilià. Sello. 4. 
Planta herbacea, leviter papillosa, virens. Radia perennis, è 
fibris pluribus, fili emporetici crassitie composita. Caules 
è radice plures, erecti, teretes, subfiliformes, apice tantim 
ramosi, foliis feré destituti, sesquipedales, pennam corvinam 
crassitie vix adeequantes. Folia radicalia maxima, petiolata, 
patula, oblongo-spathulata, repanda, vix ac ne vix sinuata, 
uninervia, basi attenuata, suprà prope marginem presertim 
scabriuscula, aculeis minutissimis callosis, subtüs ad costam 
pilosa, palmaria, latitudine feré biuncialia ; caulina paucis- 
sima (2 v. 4) plurimüm minora, semiamplexicaulia, lineari- 
lanceolata, mucronulata, denticulata, uncialia. Fores plu- 
res (5—7) corymbosi. Pedunculi longi, simplices v. bifidi, 
copiose papilloso-glandulosi. Bractee lineares, mucronu- 
late. Involucrum simplici ordine poly(10-)phyllum : foliolis 
. cuneato-lanceolatis, acutis, concavis, extüs copiose papil- 
loso-glandulosis, scabris. Receptaculum nudum. — Flosculi 
plures, hermaphroditi, albi? tubo glanduloso: limbo eodem 
breviore, bilabiato ; labio exteriore elliptico, obtuse triden- 
ticulato, 4-nervio, patulo; interiore bipartito : laciniis lan- 
ceolatis, acutis, binerviis, revolutis, sepé margine conglu- 
tinatis. Anthere appendiculà lanceolata acuta, cartilagineo- 
membranaceá coronatz, basi longè bisetose. Stylus filifor- 
mis, glaber.. basi bulbos. Stigmata semicylindrica, re- - 
: xo Bie cios; 5 sake. rigidulis 
Very near akin to the preceding species ; but in that the stem | 
is pagolar and somewhat leafy, and the whole plant, clot th 
