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47. COXPOSITACEJC. 
dular, strongly ribbed or striated ami angular, red or purple 
downwards. Branches erect remote elongate subcorymbose 
naked with an auriculate semiamplexicaul leafy br. at each 
fork, often in a laciniately pinnatifid, but sometimes, and in 
H always, acuminato-lanceolate, the uppermost being always 
finely linear and entire with the auriculate base only toothed. 
L. chiefly radical tufted, in « altogether smooth ; in with the 
midrib hispid or furry and the nerves and margins hispidulous 
beneath ; the edges in all the 1. being remotely and irregularly 
subciliately setoso-denticulate. FI. about an in. in diam. umbel- 
late in twos or threes at the ends of the branches, loosely corym- 
bose, closing about noon ; ped. and fl.-buds always erect form- 
ing a loose broad cyme, the former ebracteate long slender 
mealy-puberulous with sometimes 2 or 3 linear-filiform br. at top. 
Heads slightly mealy outside, inner scales about 15 twice or more 
the length of the outer loose calvcle, gr. with a strong fleshy 
keel or midrib, very obtuse and prominent downwards and 
fringed or crested more or less with short conical or bulbous 
black soft spinules ; outer scales of calycle lax unequal imbri- 
cate not spreading, lanceolate acute or subobtuse with disco- 
loured ustulate or after flowering withered tips, a prominent 
gr. naked keel, and w. mealy membranous margins ; all finely 
silky-w. inside. Tube of florets subpuberulous. Outer ligules 
mostly reddish towards the tips beneath. Ov. and its beak 
smooth. Ach. fusiform subcompressed attenuately longiros- 
trate, their beak in all as long as or a little longer than them- 
selves, ribbed and transversely rugulose, each with a little 
short pedic. which remains attached to the recept. llecept. 
alveolate, the edges of the cells fringed with short erect bris- 
tles. Pappus in the nearly ripe anthodia before expansion 
protruding half the length of the closed pericline above it in a 
thick close snow-w. tuft, copious. The long-beaked ach. or 
distinct pappus-stalk takes this pi. at once out of the category of 
C. biennis L., nicceensis Balb., virens L. ( C. tectorum Sm.), tec- 
tor um L., &c. And from C. taraxacifolia Thuill., its nearest 
ally, it is constantly and at once distinguishable by its smooth 
shining full or dark gr. less finely divided foliage, tfcc. 
C. intybacea Brot. 11. cc. is perhaps a mixture of it with C. 
taraxacifolia or something else with 1. u utrinque hirsuta.” 
2. C. divaiucata Lowe. Almeirante. 
Ann. or bienn. dwarfish succulent bright shining full gr. ; 
st. short robust fork-branched smooth downwards, upwards 
with the divaricate ped. hispid glandulose ; 1. very smooth still' 
rigid undulate crowded at the base or lower part of the st., the 
radical tufted or rosulate sinuato-runcinate, the st.-l. at the 
forks deflexedly caudate-acuminate subentire semiamplexicaul 
