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ture, like a cabbage tree, so that an ordinary blow with a hatchet or 

 an axe, sinks the blade to the eye. The flowers are not so brilliant as 

 the scarlet Bronnia sjnnosa, but its bright golden crown renders it an 

 attractive object when seen in its glory. 



Dr. Kellogg read a description of a new Composite, brought from 

 Cerros Island, by Dr. J. A. Veatch ; a plant of the natural order 

 Rudbeckiace, closely allied to the genus Echinacea. 



Bahiopsis, (Kellogg). — Heads many flowered, ray flowers in a sin- 

 gle series, imperfectly pistillate, with rudiments of sterile filaments, 

 those of the disk tubular and perfect. Involucral scales, lanceolate, 

 rigid imbricate, appressed in about four series. Receptacle conical, 

 alveolate, the alveolar margins irregularly lobed ; carinate lanceolate 

 chaff, mostly three-nerved, serrate, terminated by a somewhat rigid 

 cusp, partially embracing the flowers ; points purplish, shorter than the 

 flowers. Corolla of the disk cylindrical, five-toothed ; teeth glandularly 

 villous, short, slightly expanding, the proper tube very short, villous 

 within and without. Branches of the style barely exsert, subulate 

 stigmatose, terminated by a short cone. Achenia of the ray three- 

 sided, abortive, of the disk compressed, slightly margined, all densely 

 hirsute ; pappus of about six or more pectinate nerveless scales, two of 

 which are awned, awns hirsute with ascending hairs. Flowers yellow. 



B. lanata, (Kellogg). — A plant with a somewhat woody, perennial, 

 thickened base, and simple, erect or ascending, attenuated and some- 

 what naked stem above ; peduncle thickening upwarls to the sohtary 

 terminal head, six to eighteen inches (perhaps more) in height. 

 JNIostly opposite, sub-entire, three nerved leaves. Flowers yellow. 



Stem striate, lanuginous above, densely appressed lanate below, 

 simple (or branching) ? 



Leaves mostly entire or slightly serrate, opposite ; lower leaves cor- 

 date, three-nerved, on petioles thickened, amplexicaul at the base about 

 half the length of the lamina, closely clustered below ; upper cauline 

 leaves rather remote, opposite or alternate, ovate on very short peti- 

 oles, densely white appressed lanate. 



Rays eighteen, punctate with a few pellucid dots, ligulate, three- 

 toothed, tubular base, pvibescent on the back and tube ; imperfect 

 style simple, glabrous, five-nerved, with five lesser intei'raediate nerves. 

 Chaff of the disk mostly three-nerved, apex purplish and glandular on 

 the back. Disk-florets five-nerved from the sinuses ; the very short 

 proper tube pubescent within and without. Corolla, stamens, and pis- 

 til yellow. 



The general form of involucre campanulate ; scales obscurely three- 



