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Var. /3. Mauiensis : foliis utrinque incanis, vetustissimis glabrescen- 

 tibus, divisionibus lobisque plerumque filiformibus integerrimis. — Cra- 

 ter of Maui. 



LuciLiA, Cass., remanded to the Gnaphaliece by Remy, and right- 

 ly described as to the pappus by "Weddell, ought to include JBelloa, 

 too slightly distinguished by the papillose instead of silky achenia, as 

 is Merope, by the at length spreading, instead of connivent, scales of the 

 involucre. In some specimens they appear neither to spread nor to 

 connive. — Nuttall's Gnaphaliuin depressum, described from Pichincha 

 specimens of Professor Jameson's collection (no. 642 and 57) is not 

 the G. radians, Benth. i. e. L. (3ferope) Kunthiana, but apparently the 

 L. conoidea, Wedd., or near it, although larger. L. gnaphaUoides, 

 Less, includes L. argentea, Hook. & Arn., in which, by a typographi- 

 cal error of the Prodromus, the heads are said to be three-flowered in 

 place of thirty-flowered. 



LuciLiA (Merope) piptolepis, Wedd., a form with more cau- 

 lescent sterile shoots from the Peruvian Andes. 



LuciLiA (Merope) Schultzii (Gnaphalicum evacoides, Schultz 

 Bip. and Merope Schidtzii, Wedd.), a depressed, pulvinate plant, with 

 the habit of Silene acauh's, has glabrous achenia. 



LuciLiA (Merope) Pickeringii (sp. nov.) : cano-tomentosa, multi- 

 ceps, depressa; caulibus confertis uncialibus foliatis; foliis spathulatis seu 

 obovatis planis dense undique lanuginosis; capitulis subsolitariis sessili- 

 bus cylindraceis ; involucri squamis interioribus linearibus obtusiusculis 

 badiis discum sequantibus ; acheniis minutim papillosis. — Var. )3. ? 

 minor : condensata, pube appressa, capitulis minoribus aggregatis. — 

 High Andes of Peru. 



ANTENNARIA § MNIODES. — Plantar andicola?, musciforraes, 

 densissime pulvinato-csespitosoe, cinereo-tomentosaj ; foliis obovatis squa- 

 mseformibus creberrimis arete imbricatis ; capitulis solitariis in apice 

 ramulorum inter folia sessilibus fere absconditis : dioica. 



1. Antennaria (Mniodes) andina (sp. nov.) : foliis lingulato- 

 subcuneatis fere truncatis retusisve utrinque pilis longis crebris viiloso- 

 crinitis ; involucri squamis lineribus obtusis ; acheniis glabris ; pappi 

 setis fl. masc. apice subito valde clavato-incrassatis. — Alpamarca, high 

 Andes of Peru. Also collected by Haenke, in the same region. Form- 

 ing cushion-like perennial tufts, like those of Letu:obryum, and of the 

 related 3Iaja, Wedd. Flowers as in Antennaria. 



