HELIOPSIS canescens. 
Peruvian Heliopsis. 
ss 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. CoMpositm. Adanson fam. 2. 103. 
CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VI. 
HELIANTHER, Cassini in journ. de phys. 88 (an 1819). 191, 
HELIOPSIS, Involucrum (calyx) polyphyllum, imbricatum. Kecept. 
conicum paleaceum. F*loscult disct tubulosi, hermaphroditi; radiz ligulati, 
feminei. Achenia (semina) apice calva.  Herbe oppositifolia. Flores 
terminales, solitartt, pedunculati, flavi. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 4, 212, 
Hi. canescens, foliis cordato-ovatis utrinque villosis, involucro biseriato im- 
bricato, ramis erectis bifaridm pilosis. Don MSS. 
Heliopsis canescens. Munth nov. gen. et spec. 4, 212. 
Heliopsis rugosa. Hort. berol. MSS. 
Helianthus buphthalmoides.  Hortulanis. 
Helenomoium canescens. Herb. Willdenovii; (fide D. Kunth. ) 
Helianthus cordatus, Herbar. peru. penés D. Lambert. 
Herba facie omnind HELIANTHI, perennis, radice ramosé. Caules nu- 
merost, adscendentes, teretes, subtripedales, inferne glabri nitidi, superne 
bifariam pilosi, ramost ramis oppositis, erectis, caules sepins superantibus, 
iterum divisis. Fol. membranacea, petiolata, lato-ovata, acuminata, ser- 
rata, utringue virentia, hirtids villosa (juniora caneseentia ), reticulato-ve- 
nosa, 2-3-pollicaria v. ultra latitudine sesqui-bipollicari, basi subcordato- 
rotunda, rarits petiolum verstis cuncata: petiolus ter brevior lamind v. ultra, 
subtus glaber, supra hirto-canescens canaliculatus. ‘Pedunculi terminales, 
erecti, cylindrict, subsulcati, 5-fariam ptlosi, cunescentes, juxta florem cla- 
vatt Jistulost 3 primartt ramis lateralibus breviores hisgue abortientibus axit- 
Jarium emuli. Flores auret, magnitudine INuLm britannice. Tnvol. (cal.) 
biseriatum, villoso-canescens, foliolis spathulato-lanccolatis, trinerviis, mu- 
cronulatis, intimis plurimim minoribus. Recept. conicum, paleaceum : 
pale lineari-oblonge, obtuse, carinate, flosculos sigillatim complectentes, 
apice flave, lose. disci hermaphr., tubulosi, glabri, deorsim attenuati, 
limbi laciniis brevissimis acutis revolutis: radii femin., lineari-oblongi, 3- 
dentato-retust. Anth. inclusa, nigra. Germen breve, angulatum: stylus 
basi gibbosus: stigmata exserta, recurvaiim replicata, lincaria, villosa, in- 
crassato-apiculata. Achenia. (semina) subovata 5-angula, papilloso-mican- 
tia, epapposa. Don MSS. seats 
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While at Paris last summer, we were gratified with the 
inspection of the Herbarium collected by Messrs. Hum- 
boldt and Bonpland in South America, from which the 
great work of the vegetable discoveries of those celebrated 
travellers is at this moment editing by M. Kunth. It was 
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