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MOSCHARIA* pinnatifida. 

 Turnip-leaved Musk-Succory. 



SYNGENESIA JEQUALIS. 



Nat. ord. Composite Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 197.) 



§ Nassauviacese. Subtrib. II. Trixidese Lessing. compos. 400. 



MOSCHARIA R. et P. — Achsenia seriei extimae (circiter 8) fertilia, 

 compressa, obovata, obliqua, breviter rostrata, rostro insequali, extiis gibboso, 

 bracteolis omnino involuta atque pappo uniseriali, paleaceo, plumoso, brevi, 



iequali coronata, reliqua sterilia, calva. Herba Chilensis, superne in 



paniculam dichotomam divisa ; foliis teneris, pilosiusculis, imis confer tis pin- 

 natisectis ; involucris campanulatis imiserialibus oligophyllis. — Lessing 1. c. 



Moscharia pinnatifida. Fl. peruv. Linncea, vol. 5. 40. 



Gastrocarpha runcinata. D. Don. in Linn, trans. 232. British flower 



gard. t. 229. 

 Mosigia pinnatifida. Sj)reng. syst. 3. 661. 



Herba annua, bipedalis, moschum olens, apicepaniculatus. Rami striati, 

 pubescentes. Folia tenera, atroviridia, glabra, amplexicaulia, basi dentata; 

 inferiora pinnatifida dentata, super iora ovata v. ovato-lanceolata, indivisa. 

 Involucra 5-6-phylla ; foliolis laxis, ovatis, duplici serie imbricatis, cequali- 

 bus,foliaceis, pubescentibus. Receptaculum paleacettm, planum. Flosculi 

 omnes hermaphroditi, albi, circiter viginti, bilabiati ; labio exteriore oblongo, 

 obtuso, integro v. apice 3-dentato, interiore lineari revoluto ; fl. radii paleis 

 ventricosis, gibbosis, subtruncatis basi cincti, pappo brevi, simplici serie 

 paleaceo, polyphyllo ; fl. disci minores, paleis hand cincti, pappo nullo. 

 Antherge basi bisetosce. Styli rami lineares, revoluti, truncati, stigmatibus 

 fimbriatis. 



An annual plant, found wild in the dry, barren, rocky- 

 districts of Aconcagua, Quillota, and Rancagua, in Chile, 

 where it was originally gathered by the authors of the Flora 

 Peruviana, and subsequently by many Botanical collectors 

 in that country. Its native name is said to be Almizclillo. 

 (FL Peruv. syst.) 



In allusion to the musky odour of the only known species. 



