Plants Collected in Paraguay. 153 



pubescent, with a purple, almost black tuft of hairs at the apex. 

 Corolla white, bilabiate, the exterior lip much the largest and 

 3-toothed. The heads are numerous and very pretty. 



Trixis verliasciforiiiis. Less., Linusea, 1830, p. 29. 



Villa Rica (491). January. = Balansa t27. 



A stout yellow-flowered, shrubby ish plant, 4 or 5 feet high, 

 occurring in open grounds at Villa Rica. Flowers exceedingly 

 numerous, very fragrant. Pappus copious, of deep copper-colored 

 bristles. Lobes of the corolla of the same color. A show}^, con- 

 spicuous species. 



Jungia floribuuda. Less., L c, 38. 



Luque (306). December. 



A coarse plant 12-24 dm. high. Stem stout, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, orbicular-cordate, deeply 5-8 lobed, palmately veined, 

 nearly glabrous above, velvety pubescent beneath, on petioles 

 10-12 cm. long, the largest blades over 20 cm. long, and the same 

 in breadth. Stipules large, roundish, broader than long, cordate 

 or slightly lobed at base, dentate or angular. Flowers in large, 

 spreading, many-forked panicles. Heads 8-12 mm. high, contain- 

 ing about 12 flowers. There are only about 5 small, pubescent 

 involucral scales in one row. What seem to be an inner series of 

 larger scales are really the outer row of palese, as they all enwrap 

 a flower. These are oblong, pubescent, 3 or more nerved, ciliate, 

 t or 8 mm. in length. Each flower is closely invested by a rigid 

 palea. Corolla white, bilabiate, the exterior lip larger, 3-toothed, 

 the interior 2-parted. Achenia ribbed, slightly beaked, very slen- 

 der, pubescent, 5 mm. long. Bristles of the pappus plumose. 



Hypochaeris lutea (Veil.), Britton. 

 Penanthes liitea, VelL, Flor. Flum., 350, viii, t. 91. 

 Hijpochceiis Brasiliensis, Griseb., Symb. Flor. Arg., 217. 



Asuncion (799 and 843). October-November. 



Stem slender, striate, pilose with scattered, spreading hairs, 20-30 

 cm high. Leaves mostly in a radical tuft, pinnatifid or dentate, 

 the largest 5-6 cm. long, 1-1-^ cm. broad. Cauline leaves few, 

 linear-lanceolate, clasping, hastate. Inflorescence loosely panicled 

 Heads solitary, 1^-2 cm. high; ultimate peduncles 3-10 cm. long. 

 Scales biseriate, each with a white webby margin and green centre, 

 the outer shorter. Corollas yellow or nearly white, ligulate, the 



