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planatf, apice truncati penicillatique necnon appendice filiformi sibi 

 ipsis fere sequilonga onusti. Achcenia subcylindrica, 10-costata, 

 a!gre omnino glabra. Pappi setae pauca3, tenuissimse caducissimseque. 

 Herba annua habitu gracili. Folia alterna. Capitula exigua, ea 

 Emilice simulantia, ad apicem ramorum solitaria. Corollse 5-merifi, 

 verisimiliter flavae vel aurantiacse. 



Paeudactis emilioides, sp. unica. Planta sparsim ramosa, spi- 

 thamea vel sesquispithamea, ramulis (uti caulis) filiformibus debilibus 

 ascendentibus sparsim foliosis puberulis ; foliis parvis distantibus 

 inferioribus manifeste petiolatis orbicularibus vel suborbicularibus 

 superioribus conti'a sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis omnibus tenuiter 

 membranaceis puberulisque ; capitulis circa 25-flosculosis longipedun- 

 culatis ; Jlosculis ext. zjgomorphis circa 8 exsertis ; involucri phyllis 

 6 oblongis acutis vel obtusiusculis apice ipso sphacelatis dorso ele- 

 ganter striatis puberulis; styli ramorum appendicibus ex androecio 

 eminentibus; acJiceniis utrinque paullulum angustatis eleganter cos- 

 tatis ; pappi setis glabis albis. 



Belgian Congo, Western slopes of Magila Mts. ; Kassner, 2994. 



Folia inf. 7-10 mm. diam., horum petioli filiformes, summum 

 5 mm. long. ; folia pleraque sup. 7-10 mm. long., 2-3 mm. lat., 

 omnia Integra et in sicco viridia, Pedunculi circa 12 cm. long. 

 Capitula pansa 7x5 mm. Involucri phylla 5 mm. long. Floscu- 

 lorum ext. lobi majores oblongi, obtusi, usque ad 3 mm. long., lobi 

 minores lineari-lanceolati, acuti, 1"5 mm. long. ; flosculorum int. 

 tubus anguste infundibularis, 3 mm. long., lobi lanceolati, circa 

 2 mm. long. Styli rami '6 mm. long., horum appendix '4 mm. 

 Achsenia fusca, 2 mm. long. Pappi setae 2 mm. long, vel paullo 

 ultra. 



A curious plant, which at first sight would be sorted without 

 hesitation into Emilia. From this the zj^gomorphic exterior corollas — 

 recalling those of some DipsacecB and MutisiacecBy for instance, — the 

 filiform appendages to the style-anus, and the scant}' caducous pappus, 

 afford good grounds for sejDaration. 



ILFRACOMBE MOSSES AND HEPATICS. 

 By Cecil P. Hukst. 



(Concluded from p. 97.) 



Sarhtila cordata Dixon. First noticed on a wall-top at Sauntoii 

 by Mr. Holmes in April 1903, and was only known until quite 

 recently from Central Europe (Austria, Germany and Switzerland) ; 

 in 1902 it was gathered in Pyrenees by Messrs. Dixon and Nicholson 

 the latter of whom writes : — " I found B. cordata on the Saunton 

 cliffs in North Devon in October, 1916. It grew in a scattered way 

 practically all along the cliffs, but I think that it was most plentiful 

 at the end nearest to Baggy Point." — B. topliacea Mitt. Fruiting 

 freely on the cliffs to the east of Ilfracombe ; I think I have also 



