278 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Tribe VII. Senecione.e. 



Heads radiate or discoid. Involucre little or not at all imbricated. Anthers 

 without tails. No chaff on receptacle, or occasionally present. Pappus capillary. 

 Receptacle with chaffy scales; involucre somewhat imbricate; half-shrubby herb 



with leaves partly trifid 754. Neurolcena lobala. 



Receptacle naked; involucre i-seriate; annual herbs. 



Heads whitish; stem erect, leaves sessile at the tapering base. 



755. Erecktites hieracifolia' 



Heads purplish; stem weak; lower leaves lyrate, the upper sagittate, clasping 



the stem 756. Emilia sonchifolia. 



Tribe VIII. Mutisie^. 



Heads various, usually some of the flowers with bilabiate corollas; anthers 

 long-tailed at base; receptacle naked; style branches in the hermaphrodite fiowers 

 not appendaged and usually very short; scapose herbs with tufted radical leaves, 

 whitish-canescent below 757. Chaptalia dentata, 



711. Sparganophorus Vaillantii Crantz. 



Sparganopkorus Vaillantii Crantz, Institutiones Rei Herbariae, I, 1766, p. 261. 

 Fthulia sparganophora Linn.«us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. II, 1763, p. 1171. 

 Slriichium sparganophorum O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 

 366. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May i, 1904, 0. E. Jennings, No. 478. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: The West Indies, continental tropical America 

 from Cuba and southern Mexico to Brazil; and tropical Africa. 



712. Lachnorhiza piloselloides A. Richard. 



Lachnorhiza piloselloides A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural 



de la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 34. 

 Vernonia piloselloides Hoffmann, in Engler & Prantl, Die Natiirlichen Pflanzen- 



familien, IV (V), 1894, P- 126. 



Described by A. Richard (/. c), from specimens collected by A. H. 

 Lanier; northern part of the island, Blain, No. 83 (Millspaugh) ; swamp 

 north of Nueva Gerona, May 8, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 138. Flow- 

 ers noted as "flesh-pink." General Distribution: The Isle of Pines. 



Note. — ^^Lachnorhiza asteroides DC." is in the printed list of plants 

 ■collected in the Isle of Pines by A. H. Curtiss. The writer has not 

 seen this specimen, but ventures to think that the plant is L. pilosel- 

 loides A. Rich. 



713. Elephantopus mollis Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 



Elephantopus mollis Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 

 Plantarum, IV, 1820, p. 26. 



