HELrcnRYSTnr. 
483 
smooth fertile atropurpureous upwards in fl., blackish or black 
before and afterwards, the black eyelike disk of the heads con- 
trasting singularly with the snow-w. opake shortly ovate mostly 
obtuse dry scales of inv. ; female fl. in 1-2 rows. Iiecept. hat 
with a central conical papilla, strongly alveolate. Pappus in 
all the fl. in a single row the length of the fl., simple (not 
clavate) minutely rough or pubescent. Ach. minute dark chest- 
nut oblong or oblong-turbinate 4-angular rough with glittering- 
resinous dots. 
(3. rosea ; heads blush -pink, the scales of inv. being rose, 
pink, or crimson at the base.— Mad. rrr, Portella de P t0 da 
Cruz, Passo d’Area ; PS., S r J. M. Moniz. Cymes more 
dense compact and hemispherical perhaps than usual, but 
agreeing in all other points with the usual snow-w. -lid. state 
(mvect). 
Sect. 3. Aster antha Lowe ( Xerochlcena DC. in part). Heads 
hemispherical ; scales altogether dry and scarious loose 
or spreading and finally stellately radiant golden or 
pale y., sometimes w. Pappus simple, rough or pubes- 
cent. Mostly stout erect herbaceous more or less to- 
mentose pi. with large conspicuous heads clustered or 
single. 
t|4. II. FCETIDUM (L.). 
Hoary-grev or whitish clammy-tomentose ; st. stout erect 
simple virgate leafy ; lower 1. oblong-lanceolate attenuate down- 
wards, stem-1, cordate-amplexicaul acuminate erecto-patent, 
all w. and cottony beneath, light gr. subglabrescent or thinly 
furry-pustulate above ; heads large stalked clustered in large 
compound terminal cymes ; outer scales ovate, inner lanceo- 
late longer than the tiorets, all acute or subacute smooth 
shining scarious. — DC. vi. 187 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 185 ; Willk. 
et Lange ii. GO. Gnaphalium fcetidum Linn. Sp. 1197 ; Lam. 
Diet. ii. 751; Pers. Syn. ii. 418. Anaxeton fcetidum Lam. 111. 
t. (392. f. 1. 
(3. citreum Less, ex DC. 1. c. ; heads subpanieled, inv. and pap- 
pus bright lemon-y. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. Seminatura- 
lized here and there in two or three fields about Mr. Bland v’s 
house at St. Antonio da Serra, from whose garden, where it 
still grows, it has evidently straggled within the last 10 or 15 
years ; observed also by S r J. M. Moniz going thence towards 
the Levada dos Lama 9 eiros in 1859 u remote from all culti- 
vation but I have lately searched for it in vain in this lo- 
cality, to which it was doubtless originally conveyed from the 
same garden. June-Oct. — St. mostly several from the crown, 
forming a close bush, simple stiffly virgate very stout hard and 
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