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nis, parvula, lanuginosa, Brasiliensis. Radix cespitosa, fibrosa. 
Caules plures, decumbentes, subtripollicares, ramosi, foliosi. 
Folia opposita, sessilia, lineari-lanceolata, mucronata, 4 lin. 
longa, integerrima, uninervia, reticulato-venosa. Pedunculi 
terminales, solitarii, elongati, dense lanuginosi, 1-cephali. Capi- 
tula oblongo-cylindrica. Flores flavi. Pappus rufescens. 
5787.* Leucopodum campestre. 
Has. Open grassy places, Organ Mountains, at an elevation 
of about 3500 feet. Fl. March. 
The little plant on which I have established this genus is 
related to Conyza and its allies, but differs from them all in 
| its caudate anthers, terete and rostrate achænia, and opposite 
leaves. 
499. Pluchea (Stylimnus) Organensis; herbacea, tota rufo- 
tomentosa, caule sulcato, foliis amplexicaulibus cordatis 
oblongis acutis serratis venoso-reticulatis, corymbo com- 
posito conferto, involucri squamis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 
dorso dense villoso-tomentosis disco brevioribus. 
Has. Open marshy places, Organ Mountains, at an eleva- 
tion of about 3000 feet. F1. April. 
: Herba 2-3-pedalis, apice corymboso-ramosa, foliosa. 
. Folia 23-8 poll. longa, 3-4 lin. lata. Capitula multiflora. 
: Flores favi, foeminei pluriseriales, 3-dentati, stylo exserto, 
. masculi plures. Antheræ exserte, caudate.  Achenium sul- 
. cato-angulatum. PE 
Near P. oblongifolia, and P. bifrons of DC. but abundantly — 
distinct from both. Seg ame 
. 506. Wedelia (Cyathophora) scandens ; caule fruticoso scan- 
. . dente, ramis albo-piloso-tomentosis teretibus, foliis petio- 
latis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi rotundatis re- 
mote serrulatis triplinerviis supra piloso-scabridis subtus xd 
velutino-villosis, pedicellis solitariis elongatis, involucri Que 
.  *' There is some mistake in this No., as 5787 is properly — 
, above as a new Erigeron. The present plant may perhaps be 5788, © ae 
1 which I have no specimen,—G. B. 1 AP EUM TI 
