PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 
233, ERYNGIUM, Gen. pl, 456. Delaroche monog. 
1. E. prealtum ; foliis longissime lanceolato-linearibus ser- 
ratis: rameis lineari-multipartitis, involucri foliolis 
capitulo ovoideo longioribus paleisque 3 —5-fidis, ca- 
_ pitulis paniculatis.— Lam. encycl A; p.759. Delaroche 
eryng. p. 48. See eee 
E. aquaticum B. Willd. sp. pl. 1. p. 1357. Mich, fl. 
|. amer. |. p. 163. d ve 
. leon. Delaroche eryng. t. 19. Pluk. alm. t. 396. f. 3. 
MR On the banks of rivers, in overflowed tide-meadows : 
. Pensylvania to Virginia. Y. July, Aug. v.v. Stem 
hollow; flower-heads green or pale blue. I once 
` found a beautiful proliferous variety with pale purple 
. flowers, one on the top of theothers, = — 
2E, simplex ; foliis ovato-cordatis brevissime petiolatis, 
..fapitulis omnibus pedanculatis, involucri foliolis pa- 
. . eisque 3-fidis, caule virgato superne tantum ramoso. 
7 Lam. encycl. A. p. 757... Delaroche eryng. p. 49. 
— OR. ovalifolium. Mich, fl. amer. 1. p. 163. 
. E. integrifolium. Walt. fl. car. 112. 
^ leon. Delaroche eryng. t. 20. ~ | 
lu wet meadows and woods: Carolina and Georgia. 2. 
siej July. . v. v.: About a foot bigb ; flower-beads small, 
.. found, amethystine-blue. —  . aged va SE 
3. E. pumilum, graveolens; foliis serrato-spinosis : radi- 
calibus lanceolatis, floralibus palmatis, capitulis cylin- 
.  dricis subsessilibus, paleis longissimis lineari-lanceo- 
Cr latis.— Willd, sp. pl. 1. p. 1350. es 
Icon. Brown. jam. 1. t. 156. f. 3. 4. 
In dry fields ; Georgia to Florida. X. July, Aug. v. v. 
Flowers in small heads, herbaceous. Very much es- 
teemed among the natives as a medicine. Ko 
4. E. elatum ; foliis late-linearibus remote ciliato-spinosis, 
~~ floralibus lanceolatis dentatis, foliolis involucri capitulo 
globoso brevioribus paleisque integris, caule subdicho- 
tomo.— Willd. sp:pl. 1. p. 1357 o | 
Jacq, ic. 2. t.347. Pluk. alm. t. 390. f. 3. 
= - Sometimes more than six feet high ; leaves very long ; 
+ Virginia to Carolina, X. Aug. v. v.. 
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virginianum, 
virgatum., 
aquaticum. 
