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COUSINIA CHAMÆPEUCE, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. р. 465. 
Badghis: 486, May 17, 1885; 515, May 19, 1886. Very common on dry clayey 
hills and banks, and remarkable for its large woolly flower-heads. 
COUSINIA, sp. 
Hari-rud valley: 1070, July 26, 1885. In gravelly plains; common. 
COUSINIA ($ SERRATULOIDEA, Bunge ?) WiwNKLERIANA, Aitch. et Hemsl. Herba 
perennis, rigida, pedalis ad sesquipedalis, canescens, tarde glabrescens, caulibus 
pauciramosis oligocephalis. Folia rigidissima (radicalia non visa), oblonga, usque 
ad 4 poll. longa, plana, arcte ad ramos appressa, longe lateque decurrentia, elevato- 
venosa, secus margines tantum longiuscule rigideque aculeata. Capitula sparsa 
(ramulis sæpius tricephalis), lateralia sessilia, terminalia breviter pedunculata, 
arachnoideo-tomentosa, multiflora, ovoidea ore constricto ; involucri bracteæ 
numerosissimæ, exteriores atque intermediæ breves, angustissimæ, spiniformes, arcte 
appressæ, interiores glaberrimæ, cartilagineæ, lineares, acutissimæ, 10-15 lineas 
longæ; receptaculi setæ fere filiformes, achæniis cum pappo longiores. Achenia 
ecostata, compressa, obovata, apice rotundata, glabra, opaca, obscure maculata ; 
pappi setæ breves, sæpius bistortæ, longe bifariam barbellatæ. 
Hari-rud valley : 759, August 3, 1885. Very common in gravelly and clayey plains. 
We have much pleasure in naming this after Mr. Const. Winkler, Curator of the 
St. Petersburg Herbarium, who compared this and other Compositæ with Turkestan 
species not represented in the Kew Herbarium. 
COUSINIA CYNAROIDES, C. A. Mey.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 506, var. foliis radicalibus a 
forma typica diversa. 
Hari-rud valley ; 601, June 4, 1885; Khorasan: 1079, June 21, 1885. Very common 
in stony ground and shingle. The plant has a general grey appearance, from the woolly 
tomentum with which it is covered. 
We have followed Mr. С. Winkler's suggestion in referring this to С. cynaroides, 
as we have only seen Hohenacker's Caucasian specimens. 
COUSINIA, sp. 
Badghis: 365, Мау 1, 1885. Native name Pulush. A perennial with numerous 
creeping root-stocks, which throw up annual flowering-stems, three to four inches in 
height, with numerous clusters of leaves. The plant grows in large irregular patches, 
and is of a remarkable grey colour, rendering it very conspicuous at a distance. It is 
found in rocky places on the low hills above 3000 feet. It would, we think, prove а 
good plant for garden purposes. 
CousiNIA, sp. Cousinia “ nova species, C. arachnoidee, Fisch. et Mey., valde affinis (an 
potius forma glabriuscula hujus speciei ?).”--0. Winkler in litt. 
Hari-rud valley: 596, June 4, 1885. One specimen only. А plant three feet in 
height ; flowers yellow. | ; 
The inner involucral bracts of С. arachnoidea are conspicuously dilated, scarious, and 
