This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...sericeous: pappus straw-coloured.--V. divaricate, Sw.: ex parte.--Cymes divaricate-flexuose or virgate: heads 3'" long, 15-20-flowered.--Hab. Jamaica!, Al., Dist., Wnllschl.; S. Anns, Manchester. 8. V. punctata, Sic. Shrubby; leaves chartaceous, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, tapering into the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...sericeous: pappus straw-coloured.--V. divaricate, Sw.: ex parte.--Cymes divaricate-flexuose or virgate: heads 3'" long, 15-20-flowered.--Hab. Jamaica!, Al., Dist., Wnllschl.; S. Anns, Manchester. 8. V. punctata, Sic. Shrubby; leaves chartaceous, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, tapering into the petiole, acuminate (or " blunt"), concolor, puberulous with scattered down; cymes shortly scorpioid, fastigiate, leafy: superior heads subsessile, inferior usually pedicellate; interior involucral scales oblong-lanceolate, sharply acuminate, exterior ovate; achenium sericeous: pappus straw-coloured.--V. Vahliana, Less.! V. lougifolia, Vers., ex syn. ap. DC--Cyme-branches 4-2-headed: heads 3"' long, blue.--Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl.; Dominica!, Imr.: S. Croix, Guadeloupe!; Mexico, Honduras!. 9. V. rigida, Su.! Shrubby; leaves rigid, shining above, oval or lanceolate-oblong, bluntish, coucolor, hispidulous-scabrous or glabrescent; cijmet scorpioid, leafy, flexuose: heads much distant, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, single or geminate, usually much exceeded by the floral leaves; interior invotucral scales oblong-lanceolate, blunt or bluntish, exterior ovate; achcnium hairy or glabrate: pappus straw-coloured.--V. fruticosa, Sic.: ex ic. Plum. Ed. Burnt, t. 95. f. 1. V. Sagrtcana, DC: the longer-leaved form. V. emarginata, Wickstr. sec. Less. Heads 4'" long: scales of the involucre at length spreading.--Hab. Jamaica!, Sw., Wits., in the northern limestone hills; fhibal. 10. V. tricholepis, DC. (ex descr.). Suflrulescent; leaves elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, pointed, scabrous above, villous beneath, subsessile; cymes virgate, flexuose, leafy, or passing into branches with axillary heads: heads much exceeded by the leaves, ...
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