BrickcUia. COMPOSITE. 103 



11. CARMINATIA, Mo^ino. {Prof. B. Carminatl, of Pavia, wrote on 

 the materia medica.) — ■ Sinirle species, an annual ; with opposite or partly alter- 

 nate l)roa(l and long-petioled thin leaves, and racemiform-paniculate heads of 

 whitish flowers. — DC. Prodr. vii. 2G7 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. 08. 



C. tenuiflora, UC 1. c vSparsely pubescent or hirsute : stems a foot to a yard liigli, ter- 

 minating in a leafless virgatc panicle : leaves broadly deltoid-ovate, as wide as long, repand- 

 dentate, veiny, often shorter than the petiole : heads half-inch long : soft pappus bright 

 ■vviiite. — Gray, PI. Wriglit. ii. 71. — New Mexico and Arizona, Wn'ijht, &c. (Mex., first 

 coll. by Mo(,-ino.) 



12. KtJHNIA, L. (Br. Adam Kuhn, oi Philadelphia, took the original 

 species to Linnaeus.) — Perennials of Atlantic U. S. and Mexico; with chiefly 

 alternate leaves (more or less sprinkled with resinous atoms, as in allied genera), 

 usually Avith scattered or corymbosely cymose heads, these of 10 to 30 whitish 

 or at length purple flowers, produced in late summer or autumn : pappus mostly 

 tawny. — Spec. ed. 2, ii. 1G62 (excl. syn. Pluk.), & Gen. ed. G, Of) (the anthers 

 wronglv described, from imperfect or monstrous blossoms). Critonia, Ga^rtn., 

 not Browne. Kuhnia § Sfrif/ia, DC. Prodr. v. 12G. 



K. SchAffneri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 207, of Mexico, is a peculiar species, with 

 scapiform monocephalous peduncles and tuberous roots. The rest of tlie genus is the fol- 

 lowing. 



K. eupatorioides, L. Stems wholly herbaceous, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves from oblong- 

 (or even ovate-) lanceolate to linear, irregularly few-toothed or upper ones entire, the lower 

 narrowed at base and sometimes short-petioled : pubescence miniite or soft and cinereous, or 

 liardlv any: heads mora or less cymose-clustered. — L. f. Dec. ii. 21, t. 11 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. ii. 78. K. eupatorioides & K. Critonia, Willd. Spec. iii. 177.3. K. dasijpia, (jlutinosa, 

 elliptica, t'dherosa, fidva [media, glabra), & pubescens, Raf. Ciitonia Kii/inia, Ga;rtn. Fruct. 

 ii. 411, t. 174, f. 7; Michx. Fl. ii. 101. — Dry ground, New Jersey and Penn. to Montana, 

 and south to Texas. Very variable ; the extreme forms are 



Var. COrymbulosa, Tork. & Gray, 1. c. A foot or two high, stouter, somewhat 

 cinereous-pubescent or tomentulose : leaves rather rigid and sessile, from oblong to lanceo- 

 late, coarsely veiny: heads rather crowded. — K. glidinosa. Ell. 8k. ii. 292, not DC. 

 A', suavcolcns, Freseu. lud. Sem. Francf. 18.38. K. Maximiliani, Sinning in Neuwied. Trav. 

 A'. ra«cra??^/io, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861,456. — Prairies and plains, Illinois to 

 Dakota and Nebraska, and south to Alabama and Texas. 



Var. gracilis, Tork. & Gray, 1. c. Leaves from lanceolate to very narrowly linear, 

 few-toothed or all but lower entire, minutely puberulcnt or neaidy glabrous : general inflo- 

 rescence more open and paniculate. — A', paniculata, Cass. Diet. xxiv. 516; DC. 1. c. K. Cri- 

 tonia, Ell. 1. c. — Carolina to Florida, Alabama, &c. Seems to pass into the following. 

 K. rosmarinifolia, Vent. Perhaps more lignescent at base, a foot or two high : loaves 

 all entire, Ihiear or linear-lanceolate, mostly v.-ith revolute margins, and the upper almo.st 

 filiform, from a quarter of a line to 2 lines wide, somewhat scabrous: heads more scattered 

 or paniculate : plume of the bristles of the pappus perhaps a little siiorter. — Hort. Cels. 

 t. 91 (poor figure of a broadish-leaved form, with too much imbricated involucre) : DC. 1. c. 

 (excl. syn. Ort. ? ), but surely from Mexico, not " Cuba." K. fnitescens, Ilornem. Hort. Hafn. 

 ii. 791. K. kptoph/Ua, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 598. K. enpaforioides, var. (jrarillima, Gray, 

 PI. Lindh. ii. 218, a very slender-leaved form, wliich connects with the slenderest of the jire- 

 ceding. — Rocky open ground, Texas to Arizona. (Mex.) 



13. BHICKELLIA, VAl (Br. John Brickell of Georgia, correspondent 

 of Muhlenberg and Elliott.) — Herbs or undershrubs ; with opposite or alternate 

 veiny leaves, and variously disposed heads of white, ochroleucous, or rarely flesh- 

 colored flowers, in late summer. A genus of about 40 species, of the warmer 

 parts of the U. S. and Mexico. A single annual species (B. diffusa, which may 



