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 three little spines, and having several of the same kind hooked upwards, in the margin, particularly towards the top. The young leaves are very downy. Flowers thick set in a cylindrical erect spike, arising from the divarications of the branches. Their common receptacle is cyclindrical, rather obtuse, covered with closely imbricated downy scales, some of the lowermost of which terminate in a long downy pointed arista, and from among the rest the flowers come out in pairs. The structure of the flower is well expressed in the annexed plate. We suspect the fruit figured in Mr. White's Voyage, page 225, fig., may belong to this species, but we have no positive authority to assert it.

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