6 ICONES PLANTARUM, 
the inflorescence, and from which it only differs in the rather more developed 
ligule of the ray-florets. The typical B. ciliata of Ledebour, originally 
blis to sa 
kdeetoe wit Trigeron and Conyza. Unless, however, the three genera, 
together with six or seven of their allies, are united into one overgrown genus, 
from Erigeron in the small ligule, leafy stems, short peduncles, etc., from 
Conyza in the ligulate ase fovtte and habit. The following are the species 
I should refer to Brachyacti 
ciliata, Ledeb. Fi. Ross. ii. 495 ; annu ula, ramosissima, glabrescens 
foliis linenribas integris, receptaculo leviter foveoato, ligulis stylo suo 
brevioribus v. minimis.—Zrigeron ciliatus, . FL Alt. iv. 92; Ic. Fl. 
Ross. t. 100. Conyza altaica, DOC. Prod. % 380. Crinitaria "humilis, 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 24. Tripolium angustum, Lindl. in Hook. Fl. Bor. 
Amer. ii. 15. Aster angustus, Torr, et Gr. Fl. N. Amer. ii. 162. 
Altai and Alatau mountains, and Songaria, Ledebour, Karelin and 
Ki iviloff Schrenck, and others; on the ere and towards the Rocky 
Mountains, Drummnon d, Richardson, Bourgeau 
Var. ecueials : foliis earnosulis, involucri bracteis obtusioribus. 
Has. New Mexico, Wright, n. 1161; Sonora Pass, Bolander, n. 6160. 
umbrosa ; annua ? glanduloso-villosa, caule gracili ramoso, foliis 
obovatis cuneatisve dentatis in petiolum longiusculum contractis, reseptaculo 
oe ligulis minimis.—Conyza umbrosa, Kies et Kir. in Ledeb. Fl, Ross 
498, 
Has. Alatau Mountains, Karelin and Kirilo off, also Semenov, from specimens 
sent from St. gripe nder the name of B. ciliata, perhaps from the 
misplacement of a label; Western Thibet, ?. Thomson, Stewart ; Lahul, 
Jeschke, 2nd coll. n. a1. 
Caules erecti v. adscendentes, ramosi, tenues, 3-]- -pedales, Folia tenuia, 
grosse dentata. Inflorescentia et flores fere B. ciliate, capitula tamen 
minora et pa ppus minus copiosus. Ligule ovate vy. oblong, stylo multo 
breviores, szepe pilosule. 
3. B. ro 2 fa, sp. nov.; annua? glanduloso-pubescens, caule valido recto 
s obovatis dentatis in ‘petiolum brevem contractis, vecdekiegls 
lato Ctkalsto. ligulis minimis. 
Has. Thibet, 7. Thom: mson ; —_ M. P. Edgeworth ; Kamaon, 
Strachey and Winter bottom, Falconer. 
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