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brous or villous at nodes: leaves opposite, slightly connate, lanceolate- 

 elliptical, narrowing at base, sometimes appearing petiolate, 3-nerved, 

 serrate ; lower leaves 6 cm. long, .4 to 5 cm. wide : cymes 2 to 2.5 cm. 

 in diameter; branches densely scorpioid : involucral bracts .4 cm. long, 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, subequal, exterior bracts 1 to 2, lanceolate ; heads 

 consist of one 9 and one ^,or usually one ? and 2 to 5 (sometimes 8) 

 ^, undeveloped ^ often present: corolla tube villous or not; 9 subligu- 

 late, ligule narrow, upright, acute, exceeded by lobes of style before 

 they are reflexed, slightly more than | length of ^ corolla; ^ co- 

 rolla exceeding achene ; corolla tube .3 cm. long : achene of 9 slightly 

 exceeding ^ achene. — Gmel. Syst. 1269 (1796). Ftaveri a peruviana^ 

 Gmel. Syst. 1549 (1796). Mllleria chiloensis, Hort. Reg. Paris, ace. to 

 Juss. Gen. 187 (1789), nomen seminudum. M. Contrayerha, Cav. Ic. 

 PI. i. 2, t. 4. Flaveria Contrayerha, Pers. Syn. ii. 489. Vermifuga 

 corymbosa, Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Per. 114, t. 24. Flaveria honariensis, DC. 

 Prod. V. 635. Flaveria capitata, Juss. ex Sm. in Rees, Cycl. xv. n. 1. 

 Flaveria peruviana, Juss. Gen. PI. 187. Mllleria contrahierha, Lara. 

 Diet. iv. 183. Eiipatorium chilense, Mol. Chil. 335, ace. Gay, Flora 

 Chilena, 278. — Georgia: waste places among rosin wharves, Brunswick, 

 Harper, 1521 (hb. Gr.). Florida: Pensacola, Curtiss, 1504, Sept. 1886 

 (hb. Gr., hb. J. D. S., hb. M. B. G., hb. U. S.) ; Curtiss, 5, Sept. 1886 

 (lib. Gr.); Curtiss, 6495, July, 1899 (hb. Gr., hb. M. B. G., hb. U. S.), 

 on waste ground. Alabama: Mobile, 3Iohr, 17, 1891 (hb. U. S.). 

 Mexico : Real del Monte, Berlandier ; Guanajuato, Mendez, ace. Hemsl. 

 I.e. Peru: Lima, Gaudichaud, 113 (hb. Gr.) ; in yards and fields of 

 Cercado, Chaucay, Cautae, Huarocheri, Huanuci, and Cuzco provs. Com- 

 monly called "contrayerha" and " matagusanos " in Lima, and in Cuzco, 

 "chinapaya," ace. Ruiz et Pavon, Syst. Veg. Fl. Per. et Chil. 216; in 

 Peruvian Andes near Guancabamba, alt. 2,000 m.,acc. HBK. Nov. Gen. et. 

 Sp. iv. 285 ; Calloa and Lima, U. S. Exploring expedition under Capt. 

 Wilkes. Ecuador : Manobi, Eggers, 15704. Bolivia : Bang, 2026 (hb. 

 Gr.) ; Socata, G. Mandon, 58, 1859 (hb. Gr.) ; Cochabamba, Bang, 968, 

 1891 (hb. Gr., hb. J. D. S., hb. M. B. G., hb. U. S.). Chili : Valparaiso, 

 Mertens (hb. Gr.) ; Tarajnaca, R. A. Philippi, Chili Museo National 

 Santiago, 1888 (lib. J. D. S.) ; Conception, about 1709, ace. Feuille in 

 Journ. Obs. Phys. iii. 18, t. 14. Uraguay: Tweedie (hb. Gr.); Mendoza, 

 Gillies, 146 (hb. Gr.). Argentine Republic: Cordoba, Lorentz, 1874 

 (hb. Gr.) ; Naporta Grande, Lorentz, 1874 (hb. Gr.,) ; Buenos Ayres, Hb. 

 Parker (hb. Gr.) ; near S. Juan, Jachal, Cordoba, Tweedie, Jameson, Hie- 

 ronymus, ace. Baker 1. c. ; near Buenos Ayres, Bade, ace. Baker, 1. c. 



