GEROPOGOtf. 
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nearly sessile or rather perhaps shortly stalked pappus, its 
scape-like st., umbellate fl., and hispid undivided oblong or 
elliptic-oblong 1. — Seubert (Fl. Az. 33, 34, tt. xii. xiii.) distin- 
guishes two sp. in addition to the original M. rigens (Ait.) 
DC. vii. 128. 
tTribe XXVI. Scorzonerece Schultz, Koch. , 
f50. Geropogon Linn, 
tl. G. GLABER Jacq. 
The only sp. — Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 33; Willk. et Lange ii. 
227. G. glabrum Linn. Sp. 1109 ; Lam. Diet. vi. 482, 111. t. 
646 ; BM. t. 479 ; Pers. ii. 359. no. 1 ; Buch 194. no. 215 ; DC. 
vii. Ill ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 314; RFG. xix. 13, t. 28. ff. i. ii. 
6-12. G. australis Spr. Syst. iii. 663. G. hybridus Schultz in 
WB. ii. 472. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r ; PS. reg. 2, |. Amongst 
corn in the Loo-fields and on P ta de S. Louren 90 at Cardial and 
about the Piedade ; P t0 S t0 general in cornfields towards Pico 
d’Anna Ferreira, Camacha, Serra de Fora, &c. March-May. — 
Always altogether smooth in Mad. and PS., with linear long 
grass-like grass-gr. foliage, very variable in size and luxuriance, 
from 2 or 3 in. high simple and single fid. to 12 or more in. 
branched and manv-fid. Root strong simple or tapshaped and 
fleshy, pale or whitish. L. closely sheathing the thick base 
of the st. like those of Allium Porrum or sativum L ., linear- 
acuminate elongate entire carinate bright gr. with a pale mid- 
rib, 3-10 or 12 in. long, 3-6 lines broad, half-st. -clasping. St. 
erect hard stiff round simple or fork-branched from the base 
with a broader 1. at each fork. Fl. very singular, reminding 
one of Agrostemma Githago L. with their few enormously long 
linear gT. inv. -scales far exceeding the bright lilac or rose-pink 
florets, closing before noon, small, £-f in. in diam. Ped. naked 
fistulose. Scales of inv. 7-9 linear finely acuminate, l|-2 in. 
long, gr. with pale edges, carinate especially in.fr. and then 
nearly as long as and partly sheathing the outer marginal 
ach. Fits, about 20 ; ligules of the outer scarcely half the 
length of the long free points of the invol. scales which rise 
above or beyond them. Ach. fusiform very slender and at- 
tenuately long-beaked, striate, H-2 in. long with their awns 
or pappus, the beaks minutely hispid-scabrous. Pappus of the 
outer ach. of 5 simple (not plumose) stiff minutely liispido- 
scabrous unequal awns or setoe, mostly 3 long, 2 short ; of 
the inner deciduous ach. many-raved, rays finely and softly 
plumose, not deciduous. Recept. sparingly chaffy ; scales fe w 
very fine slender narrow and filmy, about ^ in. long, produced 
into fine hair-like points. 
