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the solitary character justifies such a course,* and from Wight’s 
ses + and both his and Mr. Clarke's remarks, ou is evidently much 
ore like the true Doronica in habit, whilst the Chinese species 
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peculiarity alone into consideration, they would come together. 
ov“ SENECIO PHALACROCARPUS, sp. nov.—Totus plus minus araneoso- 
tomentosus, rhizomate descendente fibras erassiusculas undique 
edente bulbillosque subrotundos pullulante, caule erecto robusto 
fistuloso ramoso 14-2 pedali plurisuleato purpurascente, foliis sub- 
rotundo-cordatis vel reniformibus angulatis calloso- dentioulatis 
supra viridibus pilosis subtus candido-araneosis pedatine radi- 
calibus longe caulinis mediocriter summis breviter patialatin potiotis 
profunde canaliculatis basi dilatatis, corymbis caulem ramosque 
terminantibus subramosis fastigiatis 5-10 baphali sede longe 
Soe basi ebracteolatis campanulatis diam 14 polli- 
aribus, involueri packet 13 evict lanceolatis ni 3-nerviis 
margin e hyalinis 8 lin. longis demum reflexis, receptaculo hemi- 
spherico fimbrillis brevibus ex pensar set delapsorum cicatricibus 
2 itisxss, ligulis 18 oblongis flavis apice 3-dentatis 6 lin. longis 
1 lin. latis, florum radii sate — mies campanulate circiter 
requilongo, "antheris ecaudat s, achenio ongo fusco obtuse 
10-striato glandulis brevibus oblongis alin obsito, pappo tam 
floseulorum disci quam radii omnino nullo! 
. Lien-chan, prov. Cantonensis, m. Januario 1879, co oll. 
Rev. E. Faber, societatis ehaasl inisebiuapias (Herb. propr. 
n, 20924.) 
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maa respectively on Vinerdon Dow Cornwall; a 
Liar ough Down, 8. Devon. Having compared them with Mr. 
Ridley’s Geaecintion and the accompanying plate, I find, with a 
considerable amount of general resemblance, the remarkably long 
glumes as in the variety. The Plymouth plants, however, I regar 
for with their peculiar features I have always found aborted 
i ad in its place a fungus, to the presence of whic I 
ciclo all the differences between them and typical pilulifera are 
e. I have no doubt they constitute the Carex Bastardiana, DO., 
described by Roreau in his ‘ Flore du Centre de la France,’ under 
* Cfr. Messrs. Franchet & penne oe dap. i on the pigeon of the pappus 
in — fips a of Composite. (Enu Jap. ii 
n. pl. Ind, or, iti. 1152, 
