of the Class Compositce. 197 



2. C. hierncioides, glabriuscula ; caule subnudo tereti, involucri 

 foliolis cuneato-lanceolatis acutis. 

 In Brasilia. Sello. v . 



Planta herbacea, leviter papillosa, virens. Radix- perennis, h 

 fibris pluribus, fill emporetici crassitie composita. Caules 

 h radice plures, erecti, teretes, subfiliformes, apice tantiim 

 ramosi, foliis fer^ destituti, sesquipedales, pennam corvinam 

 crassitie vix adaequantes. Folia radicalia maxima, petiolata, 

 patula, oblongo-spathulata, repanda, vix ac ne vix sinuata, 

 uninervia, basi attenuata, supra prope marginem praesertim 

 scabriiiscula, aculeis minutissimis caliosis, subtds ad costam 

 pilosa, palmaria, latitudine fere biuncialia ; caulina paucis- 

 sima (2 v. 4) plurimxim minora, semiamplexicaulia, lineari- 

 lanceolata, mucronulata, denticulata, uncialia. Flores plu- 

 res (5 — 7) corymbosi. Pedunculi longi, simplices v. bifidi, 

 copiosfe papilloso-glandulosi. Bractea lineares, mucronu- 

 latee. Involucrum simplici ordine poly(10-)phyllum : foliolis 

 cuneato-lanceolatis, acutis, concavis, exti^s copiose papil- 

 loso-glandulosis, scabris. Receptaculum nudum. Flosculi 

 plures, hermaphroditi, albi ? tubo glanduloso : limbo eodem 

 breviore, bilabiate ; labio exteriore elliptico, obtus^ triden- 

 ticulato, 4-nervio, patulo ; interiore bipartite : lacimis lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis, binerviis, revolutis, saepfe margine conglu- 

 tinatis. Anthera appendicuM lanceolate acut^, cartilagineo- 

 membranaced coronatae, basi longfe bisetosae. Stylus filifor- 

 mis, glaber, basi bulbosus. Stigmata seraicylindrica, re- 

 curvata, apice truncata, pari^m dilatata, minut^que papil- 

 losa. Achenia subfusiformia, compressa, papilloso-scabra, 

 5-costata. Pappus pilosus, cinereus, persistens : radiis du- 

 plici ordine copiosis, scabris, rigidulis. 

 Very near akin to the preceding species ; but in that the stem 



is angular and somewhat leafy, and the whole plant clothed with 



bristly 



