Text Appearing Before Image: a. The roots attachedto several specimens furnished sufficient material to establish the pres-ence of pipitzahoic acid, and the specimens of great perfection servedas originals for the accompanying illustrations of these most interestingplants. Perezia nana Gr., of slender growth from 4 to 8 inches high, with aslender, creeping or ascending root-stock, articulated mostly, and thejoints and head of which are covered with tufts of fine woolly hairs.The slender wiry stem is simple or sparsely branched from the base,slightly flexuous, angled and a little rough. The rigid, coriaceous leavesare shining, glandular, scabrous, strongly reticulate veined, roundishovate, If to 2 inches wide and but little longer, spinose toothed,sessile by a cordate base or amplexicaul. The large capitula areterminal, subsessile, 20-30 flowered with a campanulate involucre ofmucronate cuspidate, ciliated scales, arranged in three rows, of whichthe exterior ones are ovate and the interior lanceolate, all purplish Text Appearing After Image: Perezla (Acourtia) nana, Gray (natural size).—1. Corolla. 2. Sta-mens. 3. Akene (magnified). 4. Floret (natural size).
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