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brous or villous at nodes: leaves opposite, slightly connate, lanceolate- 
elliptical, narrowing at base, sometimes appearing petiolate, 3-nerved, 
serrate ; lower leaves 6 cm. long, .4 to 5 cm. wide: cymes 2 to 2.5 em. 
in diameter; branches densely scorpioid: inyolucral bracts .4 cm. long, 
oblanceolate, obtuse, subequal, exterior bracts 1 to 2, lanceolate ; heads 
consist of one 2 and one ¥,or usually one 9 and 2 to 5 (sometimes 8) 
%, undeveloped & often present: corolla tube villous or not; 9 subligu- 
late, ligule narrow, upright, acute, exceeded by lobes of style before 
they are reflexed, slightly more than 4 length of & corolla; % co- 
rolla exceeding achene; corolla tube .3 em. long: achene of 9 slightly 
exceeding % achene.— Gmel. Syst. 1269 (1796). Fiaveria peruviana, 
Gmel. Syst. 1549 (1796). Milleria chiloensis, Hort. Reg. Paris, acc. to 
Juss. Gen. 187 (1789), nomen seminudum. WV. Contrayerba, Cav. Ic. 
Pl.i. 2, t. 4. Flaveria Contrayerba, Pers. Syn. ii. 489. Vermifuga 
corymbosa, Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Per. 114, t. 24. Flaveria bonariensis, DC. 
Prod. v. 635. Flaveria capitata, Juss. ex Sm. in Rees, Cycl. xv. n. 1. 
Flaveria peruviana, Juss. Gen. P). 187. Milleria contrahierba, Lam. 
Dict. iv. 183. Hupatorium. chilense, Mol. Chil. 335, acc. Gay, Flora 
Chilena, 278.—Grorata: waste places among rosin wharves, Brunswick, 
Harper, 1521 (hb. Gr.). Fiortwa: Pensacola, Ourtiss, 1504, Sept. 1886 
(hb. Gr., hb. J. D. S., hb. M. B. G., hb. U. S.); Curtiss, 5, Sept. 1886 
(hb. Gr.) ; Curtiss, 6495, July, 1899 (hb. Gr., hb. M. B. G., hb. U. S.), 
on waste ground. ALaBama: Mobile, Mohr, 17, 1891 (hb. U. S.). 
Mexico: Real del Monte, Berlandier ; Guanajuato, Mendez, acc. Hemsl. 
l.c. Peru: Lima, Gaudichaud, 113 (hb. Gr.) ; in yards and fields of 
reado, Chaucay, Cautae, Huarocheri, Huanuci, and Cuzco provs. Com- 
monly called “contrayerba” and “ matagusanos ” jf Lima, and in Cuzco, 
“chinapaya,” ace. Ruiz et Pavon, Syst. Veg. Flf Per. et Chil. 216; in 
Peruvian Andes near Guancabamba, alt. 2,000 m.,acc. HBK. Nov. Gen. et. 
Sp. iv. 285; Calloa and Lima, U. S. Exploring expedition under Capt. 
Wilkes. Ecuapor: Manobi, Lqgers, 15704. Bortvia: Bang, 2026 (hb. 
Gr.); Socata, G. Mandon, 58:3 Q9 (hb. Gr.) ; Cochabamba, Ban ; 
1891 (hb. Gr., hb. J.D. S., hb. BSB. G., hb. U. S.). Cutr1: Valparaiso, 
Mertens (hb. Gr.) ; Tarajuaca, R, A. Philippi, Chili Museo National 
Santiago, 1888 (hb. J. D. S.); Conception, about 1709, acc. Feuille in 
Journ. Obs. Phys. iii. 18,t.14. Uragvar: Tweedie (hb. Gr.); Mendoza, 
Gillies, 146 (hb. Gr.). ArcGentine Repusuc: Cordoba, Lorentz, 1874 
(hb. Gr.) ; Naporta Grande, Lorentz, 1874 (hb. Gr.,); Buenos Ayres, Hb. 
Parker (hb. Gr.) ; near S. Juan, Jachal, Cordoba, Tweedie, Jameson, Hie- 
ronymus, acc. Baker |. c.; near Buenos Ayres, Bacle, ace. Baker, 1. c. 
