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28. FACELIS Cass. 



Annual herbs, branching from the ground, with leaves alternate, narrow, 

 entire, emarginate, hoary underneath. Heads rather small, axillary or 

 apically aggregated ; disciform and heterogamous ; the females in the 

 ray, and few fertile, tubular, hermaphrodite in the disk. Involucre ovoid, 

 its scales several-seriate, the inner long-scarious ; outer woolly ; outer- 

 most leafy. Receptacle naked. Antliers basisagittate and tailed. Style- 

 branches truncate. Pappus-setae i -seriate, plumose, basiconnate as a 

 ring. Achenes oblong, beakless. 



Species 3, Andine. 



F. APICULATA Cass. 



Leaves linear, apically truncate or emarginate, the nerve apiculately 

 produced. Heads crowded. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 5, p. 184, J. K.) 



(S. Brazil ; Argent.); N. Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



F. BRACHYCH/ETA (brachyantha?\ 

 S. Patagon., high up by Rio Sta. Cruz. 



29. ACHYROCLINE Less. 



Erect undershrubs, mostly woolly, with panicled cymes of small, nar- 

 row, few-flowered, yellow to whitish, disciform heads; 3-6 filiform, female 

 flowers in the ray, and 1-2 tubular, hermaphrodite flowers in the disk ; 

 all fertile. Receptacle naked or with few pales. Anther-tails small. 

 Style-branches truncate. Pappus-seta scabrous, falling singly. 



Specimens 16, Mexico to Brazil, etc., also in Africa and Madagascar. 



A. SATUREIOIDES (Lam.) DC. 



Branches woolly. Leaves sessile, linear, spreading, scarcely acute ; the 

 cauline crowded, those on the branches distant, webby above, woolly 

 underneath. Heads apically crowded, cylindric, glabrous ; their scales 

 oblong, obtuse. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 5, p. 184, L.) 



(Brazil, etc.) ; N. Patagon., by mouths of Rio Negro. 



