*2/l6 SPACH. — GARDOrATlUM. 



quasi pectinatis , intimis plerumque integerrimis. Receptaculi 

 fimbrillse setaceo-subulatse , obsolète denticulatse. — In Laconia 

 legit Bory de Saint-Vincent! (Herb. Mus. Par. et Webb. ). 



Planta subsemi-pedalis, foliosa, aristis stramineis creberrimis horrida. 



Caulis fere digitum minorem crassus, foliosus, erectus, firmus, llexuo- 



sus, compresso-angulatus, striatus, foliorum decurrenti a inarginato-ala- 



tus (alis internodio brevioribus, angustissimis, cartilagineis, denticu- 



latis : denticulis 3-7~aristatis : aristis stramineis, inasqualibus, 2-6 lineas 



longis , majoribus subulatis , plerumque setoso -pinnulalis , minori- 



bus setaceis, plerumque integerrimis ), jam ab infima axilla ramigenus , 



apice tri- v. quadri-furcus. Rami fastigiati v. subfastigiati , substricti , 



plus minusve divergentes, firmi, irregulariter angulosi, caule tenuiores 



(terminales axillaribus crassiores), sicut caulis brève marginato-alati et 



aristis armati , 1- v. oligo-phylli , apice nunc brevius nunc longius trifur- 



cati , caetero indivisi, simul ac caulis et ramuli straminei, laxe floccoso- 



lanuginosi. Ramuli in cymulam 2- v. 3-radiatam (radiis indivisis v. inae- 



qualiter bifidis, flexuosis, lanuginosis) soluti, 1- v. 2-phylli. Folia viridia, 



supra glabra (saltem adulta), subtus ad costam laxe floccoso-lanuginosa ; 



omnia pinnatipartita; segmenta sinuato-dentata v. sinuato-pinnatilobata 



simulque setoso- v. aristulato-denticulata : infima plerumque ad aristas 



pal matas (3- v. pluri-partitas) reducta (laciniis mediis haud raro pinnu- 



latis) ; rachis crassa , albida, nunc anguste nunc latiqs marginata ( secus 



basiu immarginata), setoso-denticulata. Foliaradicalia 3-6 pollices longa ; 



petiolo brevi,setoso-ciliato, striato; segmenta pleraque ovato- v. oblongo- 



lanceolata, nunc sinuato-dentata , nunc sinuato-pinnatilobata : dentibus 



lobisve ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatisv. triangularibus, longe aristatis,setoso- 



denticulatis. Foliorum caulinorum et ramealium segmenta levius et parcius 



lobata v. dentata. Bractée glabrae v. juxta basin laxe lanuginosae, foliis 



superioribus similes at minores, coriacece, virides, calathidiis longiores. 



Bracteom: calathidiis subaequilongae v. paulo longiores, stramineae, su- 



bulatae , cartilagineaB , pectinato-denticulatae : denticulis 1-3-aristatis 



(plerumque 2-aristatis; aristis nunc setaceis nunc subulatis). Inflores- 



centja totius plantas cymam efïbrmat amplam (6-9 pollices latam ) den- 



sam umbraculiformem bracteis plus minusve superalam. Calathidia 7-8 



lineas longa , 10-12-flora, quovis ramulo 9-15 in cymulam compactam 



conferta; pauca alaria; caetera spicata, 1-lateralia, subimbricata. An- 



thodium floribus aequale v. sublongius, viridi (v. serius stramineo) et 



cœruleo variegatum , glabrum. Squa^le cartilagineae (exceptae inlimae et 



penintimae), crassae , carinatae , longe aristato-acuminatae ; extimae subdi- 



midio breviores, subrectae, subulalae, 1-aristatac, setoso-ciliatae : setis 



divaricatis , subpungentibus , plerisque 2- y. 3-furcatis , infimis minutis ; 



