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named Echinops grandiflora, made a most chap. 
superb appearance : it grew to such a size, that i^ 
some of its blossoms were near three inches in 
diameter, forming a sphere equal in bulk to the 
suhjlexuosns. Folia subliis alhida, mollissima, supra sordide virentia, 
hispida ; lacinia lineari-subiilafcc, Capitulutte. Copitula pollices 
duos cum dimidlo seu tres diameiro caciulei. Flo^tim pedicelli 
papposL Squama calycina exteriores imbrkata lanceolato-subu- 
lala;, infra medium infegerrima: ; supra conlractce dentato-ciliaiee 
acutissimcc : squama iiilima brevior tuhulata, quinquefida, apicibus 
lacinialis. CiroUce limbus tubo brevior quinquepartitus laciniis svlli- 
nearibus. Stigmata refiexa. Semina hirsuta, coronata ; coiona 
striata, ciliata submembranacea. 
V. A non-deicript species of /lira, with the outer valve of the corolla 
three-awned, and the flowers in a close panicle, as in the Aira 
pubescens. We have called it Aira triaristata. Jira paniculd 
spiciformi, ollmigd ! corolla: valvd exteriore cali/ce nervosa dimidio 
hrcviore, triaristata; vaginis foliorum ventricosis, atnplissimis. 
This is a dwaif species, with the leafy culms often shorter than 
the oblong heads of the flowers. Both the leaves and their 
sheaths are deeply striated, and downy. The flowers are set very 
close tojjether in the panicles, which vary, from about an inch 
and a half to two and a half inches in length. The glumes of 
the calyx are of a linear-lanceolate shape, deeply furrowed, and 
downy. The inner valve of the corolla is slenderer and shorter 
than the outer valve, slightly notched at the end, and without 
awns : the two lateral awns of the outer valve are about the 
length of the calyx; the central one a third part longer. 
VI. A non-deseript shrubby species of Cistus, with rough alternate 
leaves, abnut two thirds of their length distant from each other 
on the branches. We have called it Cistus gugophyllus. 
Cistus stipulatus, fruticosus,foliis alternis ovato-lanceolatis, entrviis, 
integerrimis, s-:abris, pilosis, margine revolutis ; pedunculis unijloris; 
cali/cis foUolis inaqualibus, hirsutis. Fruticulus ramosiis, rami 
flexuosi, graciles, supra viilosi. Folia petiolata, patcntia, lineas 
quatuor longa. PetioUbrevissimi, pilosi. Calycis foliulu ina'fuaUa 
duo angustn, tria quadrupla latiora, nervosa. Corolla Jiava. 
