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squamis lanceolatis acuminatis multinerviis apice tomen- 
tosis ciliatis, acheenio dense sericeo-villoso. (TAB. xx.) 
Has. In graminosis montosis apud villa de Arrayas, Pro- 
vinci Goyazane Brasilie: florens Aprili. 
Suffrutex, 2-pedalis. Caulis erectus. Folia 6-9 pollices 
longa, 15 lin. lata. Pedunculi apice inerassati. Pappus 
pluriserialis, lucens, albidus, facile deciduus in acheeniis 
adultis, setis linearibus planis ad margines pilosis, ext. 
multo brevioribus. Cor. rosee glabree. 
Tan. 1x. Fig. 1. Chresta speciosa, nat. size; fig. 2. floret, do.; 
fig. 3. thirteen bristles from the pappus ; fig. 4. scale from 
the involucre; magnified. 
7. C. spathulefolia. Pycnocephalum spathulefolium, D.C. 
Prodr. 5. p. 83. 
8. C. scapigera. Pycnocephalum scapigerum, D.C. i. c. 
9. C. plantaginifolia. Gardn. Herb. Brasil. n. 4196. Pyeno- 
cephalum plantaginifolium, D.C. l. c. 
De Candolle remarks that CAresta is related, on the one 
hand to Elephantopus, and on the other to Lychnocephalus ; 
but its nearest affinity is certainly with Albertinia, from which 
it only differs in its less fruticose habit; for the technical 
characters are scarcely sufficient to distinguish them, parti- 
cularly if we compare Albertinia bicolor with Chresta sphero- 
cephala. 
Kew, April, 1842, 
The PLANTS or THE GnAMPIANS, viewed in their relations 
to Altitude. By Hewerr C. Warson, Esq. F.L.S. 
(Second Paper.) 
In a former paper bearing this title, and printed in the 
first and second Numbers of the London Journal of Botany,* 
Some explanations were given respecting the method adopted 
for ascertaining the range of elevation for the various species 
of plants found on those elevated chains of hills which stretch 
* See page 50 of the present volume. 
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