30 
account of the South American C. 
until the appearance of the Fifth 
of De Candolle's Prodromus, which we 
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A 
osite, 
king- 
dom, have greatly retarded the Te 
of his work; while, in the mean time, o 
collections have been returned by Mr. Dos 
in of his observa- 
scribing 
our extensive collections, and thus to re- 
ord the numerous and important discove- 
ries par have been made by Messrs. Gillies, 
C need. & Boni (in 
di h 
but only in those cases where the increase 
of species seemed to require it. 
Tris. I —CicrBonaACEx.— Vaill Juss. 
Less. Syn. p. 126 
ge TRIB. L—ScoLYMEX.—.Less. l. c. 
Mro sor ie e ret 
os ON 26.—Scolymus His 
Desf. E we m (Cult. ) re 
SuB-TRIB. IL—H vosgRIDEE.— Less. 
MicrosEris.—Don. (1832.) Lepidonema. 
F. and M. (1835.) 
Rachis ebracteolata. Achenium obfasi- 
- few or no scales 
FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
Krigie affine, et precipue differt achenus 
longioribus et "yup. uniseriali uniformi" 
731. a JM mea. Don, Ph. 
Mag. (April, 1832) p: 388. CEDE 
ma d. 
; oF qi —V 
Cet d (n. 50€ 
mena, 
FL Bor. Am not Cassini) 
only differs by the imbricated, not sim- 
ple, involucre 
SUB-TRIB. IHI.—HYPOCHÆRIDEÆ. Less. 
SERIOLA!—4Z. Less. l. c. 
tCaulibus foliosis. 
732. (1.) S.tarazacoides (Hook. et Arn.) 
caule simplici monocephalo, foliis ra- 
dicalibus runcinatis, involuc 
intertextim setoso-pilosi foliolis interi- 
s t 
oribus acuminatis.—Oreophi raxa- 
coides. Don. in Ph Apri 
—Valparaiso. Macr ges, 
Cuming, (n. 486,) Mathews, (n. 369.) 
The to sma. 
te. The flowers are about half an 
733. (2.) s. dicus pi (Less,) caule an- 
gulato ad inflorescentiam p 
v. polycephalo, involucri glabri folio- 
re Bes lanceolatis obtusiusculis.—a, 
ndifiora ; capitulis 8—12 lin. longis. 
Porcellites Brasiliensis. Less. in Linn. 
E. coast of Patagonia, Dr. 
1 We agree with Lessing, Syn. ba - 130, in gie the 
Sobth American species of Porc Genus, 
The European species have a simple Sa cae with 
at the base: the South American 
ones have it wq imbricated. Porcellites, Cass. 
the type of re ee 
eal with A Our Seriole here 
seen (even those from Pera). 
