Glossogyne?)^ CompOsitcB. 4 1 



usually 3- sometimes 5-foliolate, Iflts. nearly sessile, ovate, 

 tapering to base, very acute, sharply serrate, glabrous, the 

 terminal one the largest, petiole somewhat dilated and 

 sheathing at base; heads under \ in. diam., outer inv.-bracts 

 oblong, obtuse, spreading, inner erect, acute; ray-fl. varying 

 from 5-16, strap-shaped, acute, not toothed, or broader, trun- 

 cate and toothed; achene narrowly linear, black, the upper 

 half hispid, pappus-bristles erect or slightly spreading, rough 

 with long backward-pointing prickles. 



Var. /3, bipinnata, Hk.f. B. deconiposita^ Wall., Thw. Enum. 165. 

 C. P. 3583. Herm. Parad. Bot. t. 123. 



Lflts. 5, narrower, much cut, sometimes into separate Iflts.; 

 bristles on achene longer. 



Cultivated on waste ground ; a pestilent weed, very common every- 

 where. Fl. all the year ; ray white, disk yellow. 



Found in all warm countries. Probably originally American. 



Not recorded by Hermann from Ceylon. A very variable plant ; the 

 variety given is scarcely worth distinction. Leaves sometimes very hoary, 

 with copious pubescence on both sides. Known universally as ' Spanish 

 Needle.' Moon gives the S. name above quoted and its English equiva- 

 lent, ' Ceylon Tea,' the origin of which I have failed to trace. 



27. GXiOSSOGVNE, Cass. 



Perennial herb, 1. alt, mostly radical and pinnatisect, heads 

 small, solitary, terminal, inv.-bracts in 2 or 3 rows, connate at 

 base, narrow, receptacle convex, with linear bractlets, ray-fl. 

 few, ligulate, female, disk-fl. few, tubular, bisexual, fertile ; 

 anth.-bases obtuse, style-arms of bisexual fl. with long hairy 

 tips; achene linear, compressed, glabrous, pappus of 2 hispid 

 spines. — Sp. 5 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



G-. pinnatifida, DC. i?t Wight, Contrib. 19 (1834). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 164. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 310. 



Perennial with an erect rootstock, often branched at 

 summit, 1. mostly radical, erect, 4-6 in. including long petiole 

 into which it tapers insensibly, triangular-rhomboid in outline, 

 very deeply pinnatisect, lobes few, linear, acute, the larger 

 ones again pinnatisect, glabrous, rather rigid, veins prominent 

 beneath; flowering stems about i ft., slender, stiff, glabrous, 

 slightly dichotomously branched with a small pinnatisect 1. at 

 each fork; heads {Q.\\f, inv.-bracts obtuse; glabrous; ray-fl. 

 about 5, spreading, 3-toothed; achene strongly striate, dark 

 brown, glabrous, pappus-spines rough with backward pointing 

 prickles. 



