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achaerria cylindrical silky villous : pappus short, crown-like, the 

 hairs somewhat fimbriated. Erect prickly plants : glomeru- 

 lus sphaerical : capitula inserted on a circular horny areola : 

 partial involucrum 3-series : the interior scales the longest, 

 linear acuminated carinate. Flowers blue or white. 



Sub-tribe. Carline^e. Capitula many flowered, never dioi- 

 cous : scales of the involucrum many series, distinct, often 

 spinous : hermaphrodite corolla b-cleft, female or sterile de- 

 formed : filaments free, naked: anthers usually furnished with 

 a long bearded cauda : achcenia usually villous : pappus 1 - 

 2-series, pilose or plumose, rarefy ramose. 



77« Saussurea, (D. C. 6-531). Capitula homogamous: 

 corolla slender, throat ventricose : anthers ending in long 

 appendices with 2-ciliate, bristled at the base : stigmata long, 

 diverging, continuous with the style : achaenia glabrous : 

 pappus usually double, paleae of the exterior subfiliform rough, 

 sometimes wanting, interior long plumose concreted at the 

 base into a deciduous ring. Herbs with entire leaves : capi- 

 tula usually corymbose : involucrum many series : receptacle 

 fimbrillate or paleaceous, palea persistent : corolla purple or 

 white, never yellow. 



78. Aplotaxis, (D. C. 6-538). Similar to Saussureae, ex- 

 cept that the pappus is one series plumose. [Surely this is an 

 unnecessary refinement, especially as it is said of the exterior 

 series of Saussureae " raro exter. deficiente nullus," and 

 Captain Munro, from whom I have a specimen collected by 

 himself, informs me, that Ap. gossipina ie is an undoubted 

 Saussurea. 5 ' 



79. DoLOMiiEA, (D. C. 6-542). Capitula homogamous: 

 corolla slender, dilated at the base : anthers appendiculate and 

 caudate at the base ; caudae intorted ciliate : style thickened at 



