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2. C. hieracioides, glabriuscula ; caule subnudo tereti, involucri 

 foliolis cuneato-lanceolatis acutis. 

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Plant a herbacea, leviter papillosa, virens. Radix perennis, e 

 fibris pluribus, fili emporetici crassitie composita. Caules 

 e radice plures, erecti, teretes, subfiliformes, apice tantum 

 ramosi, foliis ferfe destituti, sesquipedales, pennam corvinam 

 crassitie vix adaequantes. Folia radicalia maxima, petiolata, 

 patula, oblongo-spathulata, repanda, vix ac ne vix sinuata, 

 uninervia, basi attenuata, supra prope marginem proesertim 

 scabriuscula, aculeis minutissimis callosis, subtus ad costam 

 pilosa, palmaria, latitudine fere biuncialia ; caulina paucis- 

 sima (2 v. 4) plurimum minora, semiamplexicaulia, lineari- 

 lanceolata, mucronulata, denticulata, uncialia. Flores plu- 

 res (5 — 7) corymbosi. Pedunculi longi, simplices v. bifidi, 

 copiose papilloso-glandulosi. Bractece lineares, mucronu- 

 lata3. Involucrum simplici ordine poly(10-)pliyllum : foliolis 

 cuneato-lanceolatis, acutis, concavis, extus copiose papil- 

 loso-glandulosis, scabris. Receptaculum nudum. Flosculi 

 plures, hermaphroditi, albi ? tubo glanduloso : Umbo eodem 

 breviore, bilabiato ; labio exteriore elliptico, obtuse triden- 

 ticulato, 4-nervio, patulo ; interiore bipartite : laciniis lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis, binerviis, revolutis, ssepe margine conglu- 

 tinatis. Anthcra appendicula lanceolata acuta, cartilagineo- 

 membranaceti coronatae, basi longe bisetosse. Stylus filifor- 

 mis, glaber, basi bulbosus. Stigmata semicylindrica, re- 

 . curvata, apice truncata, parum dilatata, minuteque papil- 

 losa. Achenia subfusiformia, compressa, papilloso-scabra, 

 5-costata. Pappus pilosus, cinereus, persistens : radiis du- 

 plici ordine copiosis, scabris, rigidulis. 

 Very near akin to the preceding species ; but in that the stem 



is angular and somewhat leafy, and the whole plant clothed with 



bristly 



