214 ilfr. D. Don's Descriptions of new Genera and Species 



Flosculi cyanei, omnes hermaphroditi, bilabiati, tubo cylin- 

 drico limbo eequali; labio exteriore elliptico, obsolete triden- 

 ticulato ; interiore bipartite, spiraliter revoluto : laciniis line- 

 aribus, obtusiusculis, pritni^m margine conglutinatis. An- 

 therce basi longe bisetae, appendicul^ lineari-lanceolata ob- 

 tus4 terminatae. Stigma bipartitum : laciniis semicylindri- 

 cis, apice dilatate-truncatis, minutfe papillosis, recurvis. 

 Achenia cuneato-compressa, pilosa. Pappus niveus, cadu- 

 cus : radiis plumosis, basi leviter connexis. 



2. L. divaricata, caule difFusfe ramosissimo, foliis amplexicaulibus 

 inciso-pinnatifidis. 

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Canlis tripedalis, erectus, ramosissimus, divaricatus, uti cum 

 totd fer^ herb4 glandulis pedicellatis confertissimis necnon 

 lanugine alb4 parciori instructus. Folia caulina (superiora 

 tantilm vidi) remote alterna, amplexicaulia, inciso-pinnati- 

 fida, subtils cost^ prominenti instructa, lanugine nive^ ves- 

 tita, supra opaco-viridia, glandulosa, uncialia v. sesquiun- 

 cialia ; segmentis lanceolatis, cuspidatis, margine revolutis, 

 integerrimis ; imis duobus sagittae more porrectis. Flores 

 laxfe paniculati. Fediinculi filiformes, uti cum involiicro 

 copiosissime glandulosi atque lanuginosi, sesquipollicares. 

 Involucrum subglobosum, truncatum : squamis multiplici or- 

 dine imbricatis ; eocterioribus ovato-lanceolatis, obtusis, ad- 

 pressis ; intimis longioribus, acutis. Receptaculum scrobi- 

 culatum. Flosculi flavi, omnes hermaphroditi, bilabiati; 

 marginales plures (15 — 16) radium aemulantes ; labio exteriore 

 ligulato, tridenticulato, in radio majore patulo, in disco re- 

 voluto ; interiore bipartito : segmentis lineari-angustissimis, 

 membranaceis, prim6 conglutinatis, revolutis. Filamenta 

 capillaria, glabra. Anthera basi setis 2 tenuissimis sim- 



plicibus 



