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DONIA criaTa. 
Ciliated Donia. 
_ SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.—Nat.- Oa. COMPOSITE. 
pies ap os 
E, Juss.—SY NANTHEREES Div. Astérers, Cassin. 
Gen. Cuar—Receptaculum nudum. Pappus setaceus, caducus? Calyx im~ 
bricatus, hemisphzricus.—Br. in Hort. Kew. 
Donia ciliata; foliis oblongis obtusis semiamplexicaulibus ciliato-serratis, 
laciniis calycinis linearibus planis, seto acuminatis, caule herbaceo— 
Nutt. i 
Donia ciliata, Nutra, in Journ. of the Academy of Nat. Sciences of Phila- 
delphia, vol. ii. (1821), p. 118. 
Root subfusiform, fibrous, biennial. Stem from 1 to 2 feet high (in its native 
country 4 or 5 feet), erect, branched, furrowed, glabrous, the branches 
ing from the axils of the leaves. Leaves from 2 to 4 inches long, 
oblong, obtuse, slightly concave, rigid, waved, gradually smaller upwards, 
the margins strikingly ciliato-serrate, the midrib strong, keeled at the 
base, and forming a swelling where it is inserted upon the stem; with 
indistinct lateral nerves. The whole substance of the leaf is beautifully 
aeaaee. pellucid veins, as may be seeri by holding it up against 
solitary, terminal upon the stems and branches, yellow, showy. In- 
volucres hemispherical, formed of numerous linear imbricated scales, of 
Evidently allied to the Donia squarrosa of Purs and of 
the Botanical Magazine, t. 1706, but differing from it, even 
at first sight, in its smaller flowers, and in the shorter scales of 
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