PLATE 2765. 
ERYNGIUM CRASSISQUAMOSUM, Hemsl. 
UMBELLIFER. 
E. (§ Ss meagnedony pro) ceca lnc (sp. nov.) ; ab EF. pec- 
tinato, Presl, capit minoribus numerosioribus, involueri bracteis 
multo minoribus ae carpellorum pontine majoribus differt. 
Herba ut videtur saltem 2-3 ped. alta. Caules graciliusculi, recti, 
rigidi, striati, supra medium alternatim ramosi, ramis terminali bus 
- 1 tet 
vel alternis linearibus longioribus 9-10 lin. vont asi seepe state 
minuta ornatis ; caulina prope basin paucispinosa, inferiora longissime 
caudata. Capitula numerosa, globosa vel ellipsoidea, seepius 6—9 lin. 
diametro maximo, ore striatis vel suleatis, Jnrolucri bractee 
circiter 9, rigidwe, 6-15 lin. longe, deflexe, integre. Palee rigidissime, 
uam 
longiora. Styli breviores vix divergentes. Carpella pertingeh non visa) 
undique squamis magnis crassis spongiosis vestita ; vitte dorsales 5, 
commissurales 0 7—£, pectinatum, Seem, Bot. Voy. Herald, p. "94, non 
Presl. 
Mexico: Sierra Madre, Seemann, 2136. 
name Sierra Madre has been given i elds pape ranges of 
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mountains in Mexico, and old and n are nif in this 
res Th ra Mad of emai journ . is , Or 
age partly in Sina In the ‘ Royal Atlas’ the mountain range 
the confines of North ‘Sonora and Chihuahua bears this name, as 
pe a range in Guerrero, where E. W. Nelson collected. 
Eryngium crassisgquamosum, Hemsl., is one of several species which 
have been taken for EZ. pectinatum, Pres, Particulars on this point 
are given in the letterpress to plate 
The Mexican and Central Seriont species of Eryngium may be 
roughly classified by their leaves into four sections, namely: 1, Znermes ; 
2, Setosu-dentate ; 3, Aculeate ; 4, Spinescentes ; the last being more 
robust and rigidly spinous than section 3 
