) 
; 
ALABASTRA DIVERSA. 169 
TAUREA virGaTA Cav. Ic. = al 230. This is referred by 
suteia’ (e.g. DeCandolle, Prod. vi. 583; Nyman, Conspectus, 427 ; 
Willkomm & Lange, Prod. FI. Hsp. ii. vg to C. ca@rulescens 
Willd., a member of the § Acrolophus. Among a large number of 
Composite recently incorporated into the solléotion at the British 
Museum is Cavanilles’ type of C. virgata, which, instead of being 
C. carulescens, is really C. intybacea Lamk., belonging to the 
; is it mi 
by the artist consists in carrying the ciliation too far down the sides 
ro the miler leaves, and this it is which has caused the plant 
o be wrongly placed in the genus. But gl this slight though 
ee blunder, the figure is really a fair one. 
CENTAUREA CANARIENSIS Brouss. in cone Si Hort. Berol. 928. 
Three specimens of this e sists 5 plant are in the British 
Museum Herbarium. AL are labelled Teneriffe, and two ofgthem, 
dated 1812, are Broussonet’s own types. In an interesting collection 
from the Canary — eng by the Museum from the Rev. R. P. 
h a number 
canariensis, but its leaves, instead of being pinnatifid, show no sign 
of division. . — propose to distinguish it 
Var. INTE ov. Folia oblanceolate, in petiolum 
alatum i ima yest goed tits ampliatum desinentia, deorsum remote 
denticulata, cirea 5:0 cm. long., juxta medium 0°8-1°3 cm. lat. 
w Herbarium has no specimen answering to the type 
form, but, on looking through the Canary Telands Conan there, 
I recognized the above-described variety (Orotava ; Gustav Mann, 
Nos. 2459, 2479 in Herb. Kew.). 
sa parce ramosa, Sertootis, ramulis strietis deorsum 
foliosis sursum nudis, oliis ediocribus sessilibus subdistanter 
pinnatisectis 5-6-jugis jugis anguste li nec revera rhachide 
appendicem scariosam stramineam pectinato-partitam productis 
intimis quam exteriores longioribus apice membrana scariosa 
age ciliata coronatis. 
Coquimbo, Chile; Bridges, No. 1897 (Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
Phas saltem 80 cm. alt., verisimiliter altior. Radicem non vidi. 
Caulis meer sursum obtuse er ae in longit adin nem ie 
Involueri chon acoeae co 2-0°4 ¢ de oor interiora circa 0-8 em. 
. lat., eorum appendix 0-17 cm. long. et (ciliolis 
ima 2°0 cm. attingentia, margine hyalina, interioribus sub- 
