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1 lowest leaves most elegantly eccanted, ‘and the upper ones ee pe 
divided; a Zinnia,** intermediate n= innia multiflora and , 
slezans, and which last season ght near St. Louis from. nas 
peted from these specimens. Many other retin have not = =e 
ope. ,a Centaurea may be found to be distinct from C. A 
so far the only pyeericns species of that genus, which is iilsionaitels 
diffused in the old w 
Leaving aside Bercy Daleae, Lupini, Giliae, a Gentiana, Buchnera, 
+ Castilleia, a number of Labiatae, Gramineae, and many others, I will 
i 
bus ovato-cordatis, acutis; beads: culo 0 apice vix incrassato ; pers ovati A 
_ -Squamis marginatis obtusis; paldia cristato-fimbriatis ; radii ligulis oblan-. 4 
- ceolatis, extus nAP inesalis, ciliatis; acheniis radi Hinapribusy disci es.) = 
aristatis, os : 3 
~ Common about Cosihuiriachi Resicrein Sepeaciinet ‘Annual, 19 2eet 
es _leaves 1 inch long, 6 to 8 lines wide; flowering heads 18 to 20° ‘g 
in diameter. The cultivated specimens grew 3 feet high: leaves © 
hes long and half as wide; heads hemispherical, larger, ligulae less hd 
. Differs from Z. multiflora by the less inflated peduncle, the << 
t and shorter leaves, the cristate paleae; from Z. elegans, to which = 
ape of the leaves and of the chaff much resembles, by the shape of» ' 
the 3 lia. I may state here that jf aff the cultivated as well as native | ne OR 
pote § of Z. multiflora the ere are not entire, but fimbriate at the : 
apex. 
fe 
#] : juea, Nn. sp., petiolis patenti pilosis ; ‘foliis sinu latis-’ 
simo Cordatis, orbiculatis, 5-7-lobatis, lohis incisis duplicatim dentatis, 
stil junioribus pilosis; scapo nudo infra parce piloso, supra cum 
ae cellis calycibusque colorato blandulaads lis near Saba is & eee 
calycis lobis ovatis obtusis, gee meer — lineari-spathul fe 
sistentib » Cam staminibus pistillisque 
wphyry mountains of Llanos, pew in is eaeteeban: ‘Scape 81 we: 12 
Eee high; upper part, together with the flowers, bright scarlet; en- 
_closed petals ee below the throat of the calyx; stamens still lowes 
Pc gattie! i in 7 sea tot he orbicular cordate red anthers. . a 
“ec entstemon _ ¢oceti ne sp., glaberrimus, glaucus, fol ks 
i i perioribus: 
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srioribus: oblongo-linearibus, superi 
