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22. ERIGERON SULLIVANI Hook. f. 



Entirely subhirsute, with appressed hairs. Stem very short, depressed, 

 bi-tri-cipital, leafy. Leaves stellately spreading, elliptic-ovate, subacute, 

 entire, narrowing to a petiole. Scape erect, \-headed, bracteolate, with 

 linear leaves. Head rather large, depressed. Involucral scales narrowly 

 linear, hispid-woolly. 



"Like E. unifiorus, but with broader leaves, distinct petiole, and ellip- 

 tic-ovate lamina, not spatulate." (J. D. Hooker.) 



Falklands, on moist cliffs; at Punta Arenas; S. Patagon., by Hatcher 

 at Cabo Negro, Jan. 13, 1897. 



1 6. VITTADINIA A. Rich. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with alternate leaves and mid-sized, mostly radi- 

 ate heads; both ray- and disk-flowers fertile, heterochromous, or some- 

 times with discoid heads; involucre broad, its scales few-seriate, imbri- 

 cate, narrow, scarious-margined, the outer scales smaller. Receptacle 

 naked. Anthers basiobtuse. Style-branches narrow, with subulate ap- 

 pendages. Pappiis setae copious, unequal. Achenes compressed. 



Species 8, severally in S. Amer. ; Papua ; Australia ( i of the Australian 

 forms in New Caledonia); and in Hawaiia. 



i. V. MULTIFIDA Gris. (Baccharis ulicina multifida O. Ktze.) 

 Glabrous. Heads discoid. Stem i meter high, suffrutescent, virgate, 

 striate, leafy, corymbose at top. Leaves pinnatisect, the segments remote, 

 3-6 pairs, filiform, acute. Involucral scales lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. 

 Pappus i -seriate. Achenes oblong, smooth. 

 N. Patagon., near Rio Negro. 



2. V. TRIFURCATA Benth. 



Heads radiate. Leaves less dissected than the preceding. Pappus 

 yellowish and pink in the same flower. 



(S. Brazil); by Rio Negro, and in various other parts of Patagon. 



17. CHILIOTRICHIUM Cass. 



Shrubs, with entire, narrow leaves, tomentose on the under surface, and 

 with long-pediceled heads, having white or violet ray-flowers, or heads 

 discoid. Involucre campanulate, its scales scarious, smaller outwards. 

 Receptacle with chaff. Anthers basiobtuse. Style-branches flat with nar- 



