239 Mr.D. Don’s Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
cronatis, ciliatis, rigidis, simplici serie contiguis, persisten- 
tibus, basi solutis. 
Herba erecta, ramosa, virens, copiosé glanduloso-villosa, tempore 
florendi formosa, odorem moscho similem redolens; radice 
fibrosá, annuá. Caulis teres, flexuosus, spithameus v.. peda- 
lis; in hortis tamen sepé 5 pedes attingens. Folia alterna, 
profundé runcinato-pinnatifida, suprà opaca, subtüs lucida, 
bi- v. tri-pollicaria: in hortis sepé spithamea v. pedalia ; 
caulinis superioribus bas? auriculatá ampleaicaulibus : seg- 
mentis lanceolatis, mucronatis, undulatis, lobatis, acutéque 
dentatis. Flores diffusé paniculati, pedicellati. Involucrum 
foliaceum, virens, hirtellum. | Flosculi plures (12—16) sin- 
gulo involucro, nivei. Nob. in Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. 229. 
1. G. runcinata. Nob. in l.c. 
Moscharia pinnatifida. . Ruiz et Pavon Syst. Veg. Fl. Perwv. et 
Chil. 1. p. 186? Gen. p. 103? 
‘In Chili ad Coquimbo (Caldcleugh), ad Valparaiso (D. Bridges). 
©. (v. v. etiam in hort.) 
Whether this be really the Moscharia pinnatifida of Ruiz and 
Pavon I must leave for the present undetermined, as there exists 
no pii xe it in their herbarium; and the description of 
i - ification, both i in the iubimed. account of the 
genus a nd alse in mete l 
ciled to "Ginto A 
Trib. 4. CHETAN TIRER: "Beeeptaiseum epaleatum. . Flosculi 
difformes ; radii foeminei.. Antherarum setis subplumosis ! 
Stigmata crassa, obtusa, partim connata. Herbe (Chi- 
nses) pl rumque nuloeenits, foribus solitariis, magnis, 
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12 CHETANTHERA. 
