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 676 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

larger than in our specimen, with the segments elongated to a very narrow point.

Bot. Mag. 2343 (1822),

Arthropodium cirratum, racemo diviso, bracteis foliaceis, pedicellis fasciculatis, petalis interioribus integerrimis, fila- mentorum dimidio barbato basi biappendiculato, foliis lanceolato-ensiformibus. Brown MSS.

AntJiericum cirratum, foliis lanceolatis planiusculis, scapo paniculato, filamentis bicirratis. Forster Prodr. Fl. Austr., p. 24. Willd. sp. pi. 2, p. 14G. Anthericum latifolium, Banks and Sol MSS.

Another species of Arthropodium, the paniculatum, will be found at No. 1421 of this work ; from which our present plant differs in the much greater width of the leaves and revolute bractes ; greater size of its white flowers ; and both from that and every known species in the greater length of the spur-like processes at the base of the bearded part of the filaments, of which Mr. Brown could only trace mere rudiments in any of the other species ; in the entire margins of the inner petals ; and in the thicker root, approaching to tuberous.

Bot. Mag. 2350 (1822).

��Ammobium alatum.

Syngenesia Polygamia tEqualis.

Sect. Discoidei.

Receptacidum paleis distinctis. Pappus, margo dentatus. Anther & basi bisetse. Involucrum imbricatum, coloratum, radians. — Herba erecta, tomentosa. Folia integerrima : raclicalia lanceolata, basi attenuata, caulina minora, decur- rentia. Caulis alatus, ramis unifloris. Involucra hemi- spharica, laminis albis, intimis patulis radium abbreviatum

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