PULICARIA AUCHERI, Nob.
PULICARIA, Gaertn. — Confer supra, p. 65.
Subgehus PLATYCHjETA, Boiss.
Pappi interni seice ia -2 0 , latiusculce, spathulaiceaxi crassiore quasi carinato-iminereice, lateribus
attenuates, oblique transversim striatulce (unde quasi permam e plumulis concretis constantem referunt),
marginibus insequaliter serrulatce, apice conferte barbellulalee, basi in stipitulum capillarem integerri-
muni inflexion contractss.
PULICARIA AITCHERI, Nob.
Pterochete A ucheri, Boiss., Diagn. Plant. Orient., fasc. 6, p. 75.
Platychete A ucheri, Boiss.. 1. c., fasc. I I , p. 5.
Suffruticosa. Partibus herbaceis glanduloso-puberula simulquehirsuta. Foliis tenuibus, sessilibus,
i-nerviis aveniis, integerrimis, cuspidato-acuminulatis, mucronatis, subtus carinatis, margine revo-
lutis; inferioribus lanceolatis v. lanceolato-oblongis, basi angustatis; superioribus ovato-v. oblongo-
lanceolatis basi rotundatis v. subcordato-aurieulatis; summis sublinearibus. Calatbidiis terminalibus,
solitariis, pedunculatis, multifloris, radiatis. Anthodii polyphylli hemisphaerici disco subdimidio bre-
vioris squatnis subaequilongis, inatquilatis (ab extimis angustioribus, ad intimas gradatim latioribus),
cuspidatis : exterioribus subulatis, glanduloso-ciliolatis; interioribus sublanceolatis, fimbriatis. Flori-
bus radialibus disco vix triente longioribns; Iigala lineari, tridentata. Achaeniis oblongis, crassis,
subterelibus, decem-costulatis (todidemque-sulculis), basi et infra apicem dense sericeo-setulosis.
Pappi externi campanulati profundelobati Iaciniis acutis irregulariter dentatis. Pappo interno corolla
florum hermaphroditorum subaequilonga. .
Suffrutex subpedalis, ramosissimus, partibus herbaceis glandulis creberrimis stipitulatis punedformibus scabro-puberulus
simulque villis insequilongis eglandulosis albidis simplicibus remote uodulosis crispulis (interdum ad uodulo's geniculate) patenti-
busv.reflexisbasiincrassadshirsutus. R ad ix speciminibus obviis desideratur. R ami hovelli e caudicelignoso a-3-pollicaricras-
sitiem calami auserini aequanteord, erecti, substricti, virgati, subterefes, conspicue striati, foliosi, in pedunculum desinentes;
macriores simplicissimi; vegedores cymoso-ramulosi v. paniculali; ramulorum erolutiouegeneris more decrescend-centrifuga.
R amuli similes ramo at graciliores et parcius foliati, axillares, erecti, plus minusve divergentes, simili modo ac ipse ramus pe-
dunculo terminati, nunc simplicissimi monocephali, nunc ramillulo axillari-subterminali aucti, nunc cymoso-ramilluligeni;
summi ramum superantes. R amilluli simplicissimi, monocephali, foliosi, secus apicem aphylli. F olia sparse, sessilia, tenuia,
rigidula, opaca, glaucescentia, angulosa, avenia, uni-uervia (nerro supra impresso Bliformi, subtus crassiusculo cariuaute),
marginibus plus minusve revoluta, apice cuspidato-acuminnlata, nervo excurrente mucronata. Folia ramealia inferiora lanceolate
V. lanceolato-oblonga, i - n / i pollicem longa, basi plus minusve angustata; superiors oblonga v. ovato-aut-oblongo-lanceo-
lata basi rotundata V. interdum subcordato-auriculata, gradatim minora; summa sublinearia. Folia ramularia foliis superioribus
rami couformia at minora. Pedusculi ebractead v. apice parce bracteati, erecti, stricti, rigidi, graciles, teretes, striad,
terminales, solitaru, monocephali, plerumque ramo v. ramulo laxius hirsuti, demum i-a pollices lougi, sub anthodio modice
dilatad. Calatuidia solitaria, erecta, depresso-hemisphaerica, muldflora, heterogama, radiata, quidquam minora calathidiisPufc-
cariae Dyssentericce; disco planiusculo. F lores homochromi, flavi, F lores radiales circiter i 5, uniseriales, ligulati, feeminei,
floribus disci vix triente longiores. Flores disci hermaphrodili, regulares, tubulosi. Amthodium bracteis paucis minimis squa-
mis exrimis conformibus sdpatum, circiter a lineas altum, disco subdimidio brevius, hemisphaericum, polyphyllum, pauci-
seriale, imbricatum, subsquarrosum. Squame erectae, herbacem, subajquilougse, carinato-uninervi®, cuspidato-acuminatat,
apice plus minusve recurvae, dorso glanduloso-puberula! simulque ad nervum plus minusve hirsut*. Squamte exteriores inter-
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