196 LBAFLHTS. 



Island of Santo Domingo, Wright, Parry & Brummel, 1871' 

 n. 261 as in U. S. Herb. The long narrow foliage of thin tex- 

 ture, sLngLilarly wtiifce beneith, and the very slender scapes 

 together give the plant a marked likeness to Primula farinosa. 



C. BROSA. Rather slender rootstock an inch long, ascending 

 or horizontal, the fibrous roots neither large nor fleshy : leaves 

 3 or 4 inches long, very thin, dark green and glabrous above, 

 beneath pale with a thin but close persistent tomentum, lyrate 

 lobes small, in two pairs, body of blade oval, acutish, lightly 

 and coarsely crenate-lobed and the whole margin sharply erose- 

 dentate : scapes several, a foot high, slender, naked ; involucre 

 an inch high, of subulate-linear thin bracts: achenes small, 

 slender, the slender stipe of the pappus of twice their length ; 

 pappus firm and soft. 



Costa Eica, June, 1893, Conduz, n. 447 as in U. S. Herb. 



0. MiCRODONTA. Large, with well developed ascending, 

 rootstock : leaves 3 to 9 inches long, with broadly oblanceolate 

 blade tapering to a winged petiole nearly as long, margin of all 

 minutely and not at all retrorsely denticulate, upper face darker 

 green or even purplish, glabrous in maturity but arachnoid- 

 tomentose when young, lower face densely sil very-tomentose: scape 

 not slender, 16 to 30 inches high, naked, flocculent: involucre large 

 its outer bracts subulate-filiforni, inner narrowly-linear : achenes 

 minutely hispidulous on the ribs and as minutely scaberulous 

 between them ; pappus-stipe slender- filiform, 4 or 5 times the 

 length of the achenes. 



Yungas, Bolivia, 1894, Miguel Bang, n. 2095 as in U. S., 

 Herb., named integrifolia on the label ; but Cassini's Leria integ- 

 rifolia is of southwestern South America, and extremely differ" 

 ent from this. 



C. MAJUSCULA. Rootstock stout, an inch long or more : 

 leaves commonly 8 or 10 inches, lyrate by several pairs of deep 

 and angular small basal lobes below the very large terminal one, 

 this oval to ovate-lanceolate, subcordate, lightly but distinctly 

 creaate-lobed, each lobe with 3 or 3 sharp retrorse teeth, texture 

 of the whole very thin, glabrous above, hoary beneath with a 



