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blade in length, upper ones gradually smaller, bracteifonn. 

 Flowers scarcely an inch across, pale yellow, almost cream- 

 coloured, opaque, so that the nerves are scarcely visible. 

 7 2042, (36.) S. canabinepfolms, (H. & A.); glaberrimus, 

 / ramis flexuosis striatis, foliis profunda bi-tripinnatifidis vel 

 rarius pinnatim sectis laciniis paucis lineari-lanceolatis acu- 

 minatis serratis, corymbis compositis aphyllis parce bractea- 

 tis, involucri ovato-cyiindracei calyculati foliolis sub-20acutis 

 non sphacelatis, ligulis 8-10 latiusculis disco brevioribus. — 

 Marshes of La Plata, near Buenos Ayres; Tweedie. — (3. folio- 

 rum laciniis 4-6angustioribus subtus inter marginem et costam 

 tomentosis. — Banda Orientale ; Tweedie. — The leaves of this 

 plant are very peculiar, generally of about three inches long, 

 unequal, narrow acuminated lacinise. Our var. /3. may prove 

 a distinct species, but evidently allied to this. 



2043. (37.) ^.crassiJlorus,DC. Prodr.Vu p. 412.— Cinera- 

 ria crassiflora; Lam. III. t. 675./. 4. — C. vestita; Spreng. — 

 On the sandy shores of the Uraguay, " creeping among the 

 sand to a great width," and on a quicksand on the Arroy de 

 Los Vagues, Banda Orientale; Tweedie^ (n. 887, and 888.) 

 — This is a very handsome species, every part densely hoary 

 with white tomentum, except the large bright yellow corollas. 

 Flowers solitary, or two together. 



2014. (38.) S. arnicoides, H. ^ A. Bot. of Beech. Voy.p. 32. 

 — S. plantagineus; Bert, in Colla, Mem. Acad. Turin, xxxviii. 

 p. 32. — Aster plantagineus, " Poepp. PL exsicc. (n. 265.)" 

 — ChiW; Bridges. Conception; Beechey. Valparaiso; Afcr/- 

 thews, [n. 243.) Cuming, (ji. 516.) 



2045. (39.) S. irifurcatus, Less.— DC. Prodr. \\.p. 435.— 

 Cineraria trifurcata : Spr. — Woollaston Island, Cape Horn ; 

 C. Darwin, Esq., (n. 381.) — A small plant, five inches to a 

 span high, with a perennial root of long thick descending 

 fibres. Stem scapiform, but leafy, with a solitary capitulum. 

 Radical leaves several, spathulate, somewhat fleshy, 3-5 lobed 

 at the apex, lobes ovate obtuse, with a somewhat callous point; 

 the base is dilated, and sheathing. Cauline leaves linear-subu- 

 late, with a membraneous almost sheathing base. This seems 



