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aii! rong rt up to an elevation of 115 sul: — The last four are what 
c. nlled weak s more material from various _ ocalities is needed to warrant a 
proper ee or their characters. Possibly 9 pete 10 may have to be united in o 
species and 11 and 12 in another. 
24. SENECIO, L. 
Florets all fertile, either all tubular and hermaphrodite or the outer 
ones female and ligulate. Involucre of a single row of nearly equal bracts 
with mostly a few small ones round the base. Style-branches in the 
disk-florets truncate and penicillate, or very rarely with a short obtuse 
appendage. Achenes striate or angular. Pappus of numerous soft capil- 
lary bristles. — Herbs, or rarely shrubs, with alternate leaves. Heads 
terminal, solitary, corymbose or paniculate, the florets usually yellow, 
rarely purple 
The largest genus of Compositae, ranging over nearly the whole world. 
1. S. Sandwicensis, Less. in Linnaea, VI, 526. — DC. Prod. VI, 375. 
~~ «An erect herb, probably several feet high, si simple stem esa 
in its r portion a few distant, small and clasping leaves. Lower 
leaves diiptine: oblong, obtuse, entire, penni-nerv ae glabrous, fleshy, about 
3‘ 1‘, contracting at the base into a margined petiole. Heads in a 
Sparingly foliose or bracteate dichotomously dividing panicle, longer than 
their pedicels, 4--5“ in diameter, discoid, homogamous. Involucre shorter 
h i 
tubular, the little dilated limb longer than the tube, gee Pappus 
white, the scabrous bristles much shorter than the coro Achenes ob- 
long, glabrous.» — The description from the Linnaea. 
Oahu, only found by Chamisso 
2. S. capillaris, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 468. — «Stem erect, frutescent, 
branching. Leayes few, linear-capillary, glabrous. Peduncles terminal, 
foliose, ahead headed.» 
«Sandwi ands, 2000—2400 ft. Called «Pamakani» by the natives.» — DC. 1. e. — Only 
collected ~E SARTO 
Trige VII ANTHEMIDEAE. 
Florets of circumference 
Heads heterogamous or rarely homogamous. 
ets a hermaphrodite 
ase. Styl 
usually female, ligulate or tubular. Disk- flor 
or rarely male, 4- or 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse a 
branches as in Senecionideae. Pappus wanting or tase to a small cup or 
_ting or auricle. Involucre of dry or scarious scales appressed and imbricate 
in 2 or more rows. Receptacle mostly naked. Leaves alternate, generally 
much eut. 
