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Poeppig (from Chili ?) which by the description seems to 

 accord sufficiently with our plant. The scales of the involu- 

 cre indeed are not " dense ciliatae," but in the var. 3 of De 

 Candolle, they are described as " minus ciliatte." The leaves 

 of our plant are an inch and an inch and a half long, coarsely 

 serrated from the apex to below the middle, in reality three- 

 nerved, the lateral nerves are very flexuose and unite with 

 the lateral nerves of the costa. 



1071. (28.) B. Poeppigiana {DC. Prod/: v. p. 410) ; fruti- 

 cosa glabra viscosa ramosissima, foliis obovatis basi cuneatis 

 subsessilibus apice obtusis repando-dentatis, capitulis pedicel- 

 latis ad apices ramorum paucis umbellatis, invol. S campanu- 

 lati squamis lanceolatis vix apice subciliatis. DC. — " B. alater- 

 noides, Poepp. PL Chil. exs. 2. n. 102," (non Kunth). Val- 

 paraiso. Cuming, (n. 193.) Quillota and Concon. Bridges, 

 by whom it is marked as "5. banksicEfolia, Bertero." — If we 

 are correct, as we think we are, in referring these plants of 

 Cuming and Bridges to the B. Poeppigiana DC, it is a plant 

 which we have confounded with B. concava, from which it 

 only differs in being not downy on the branches, (though the 

 resinous particles often give them that appearance) and in 

 the terminal heads of flowers being pedicellate and tlius 

 umbellate. We fear it is not really distinct. De Candolle 

 compares it with B. ciinei/olia; itself a very dubious plant. 



1072. (29.) B. concava (Pers.); fruticosa ramosissima, 

 ramulis angulaiis pubero-velutinis (potius pulverulente resi- 

 nosis, H. et A.), foliis late obovato-cuneatis apice obtuse trl- 

 rarius quinquedentatis sessilibus (opacis) glabris crasso-cori- 

 aceis uninerviis summis circa capitula subcoriaceis, capitulis 

 ad apices ramulorum 3 — 5 congestis subsessilibus, invol. cam- 

 panulati squamis margine scariosisoblongis in $ obtusiusculis 

 in $ inter, linearibus subacutis, acheniis compressis glabris. 



DC. Prodr. v. p. A\ 1 Molina concava. R, et Par. Syst. p. 



206. — Baccharis resinosa. Hook, et Am. Bat. of Beech, Voy, 

 p. 31. {excl. Syn.). — B. tridentata, Poepp. Coll. Chil. n. 211. 



{non Vahl.). — Chili. Valparaiso. Bridges (n. 54.). — In our 

 specimens we do not find any difference between the scales of 



