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Fertile Heads.—Nearly twice the size of the sterile, the 
involucres more broadly campanulate or hemispherical, the 
scales obtuse, with broad brown middle portions and ciliate or 
fimbriate margins. Akene nearly 2 mm. long, obovate, com- 
pressed, with darker margins, the flat surfaces finely 3-striate, 
the pappus tawny, 5 or 6 mm. long, the corollas very slender, 
2-toothed, a little shorter than the pappus. 
"A shrub, 6 feet, near Ingles-Ingles, 6,000 feet altitude, 
Bolivia, August 16, 1902." (R. S. Williams, No. 1445.) 
» Baccharis densifolia. 
Younger portions minutely strigose, otherwise glabrous. 
Shrubby, the branches stout, the branchlets weak and some- 
what drooping, densely leafy, reddish, finely sulcate. Blades 
2 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad, oblong or oval, abruptly con- 
tracted into a short petiole, lightly serrulate with erect acute 
teeth, thickish, deep-green, lightly 3-nerved, the midrib m 
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the heads slenderly peduncled, about 5 mm. long, hemispheri- 
cal-campanulate, the involucre nearly equaling the disk, its 
scales in about 5 series, ovate, obtuse, thick and rigid, appressed. 
Only staminate flowers seen. Pappus scanty, wavy, extending 
beyond the base of the corolla-lobes, about 3 mm. long, serrate, 
at the summit semi-plumose. Corolla-tube cylindric, stout, 
pilose, a little longer than the linear, acutish, recurved lobes, 
the limb campanulate. Style obscurely branched. Receptacle 
convex, nodose, naked. 
“A shrub 3 to 5 feet high in open lands, San Lorenzo Ridge, 
6750 to 7500 feet. January 26.” (Herbert Smith, Colombia, 
No. 1997.) p 
Appears to be the same as Triana's No. 1281. 
Gnaphalim multicapitatum. -— e 
i ite- tose, the branches pilose with í : 
MR MN. Dd the upper leaf-surfaces minutely 
lent. Diffusely branched, the branches ree ed 
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more than twice as b 
three series, sub-glabrous, lanceolate, 
greenish middle portion, very thin. 
acute, light-brown with 
Involucre concave, foveo- 
