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- MARSHALLIA C@#sPITOsSA. ‘TUFTED 
MARSHALLIA. 
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Class and Order. 
SynGenEsiA AUQUALIS. 
(Nat. Ord —Composirz. Div. Senecionipex. D C.) 
Generic Character. 
Capitulum homogamum. Involucrum 1—2-seriale, squa- 
mz lineari-lanceolate aquales. Receptaculum convexum 
paleis linearibus acutis ouustum. Corolle tubulose 5-den- 
tate, extus hirsute. Styli rami exappendiculati. Achenium 
turbinato - subquinquangulum, pubescens seu_villosum. 
Pappi palee 5, enervie, elliptice, acuminate, integre.— 
Herb Boreali- Americane perennes. Folia alterna integra. 
Capitula terminalia solitaria purpurascentia non male Scabi- 
osarum capit. referentia. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Marsuarua cespitosa; glabra cespitosa, caule simplici 
aphylio 1-cephalo, foliis elongato- et lato-linearibus 
subobtusis integerrimis, involucri squamis oblongo- 
linearibus obtusis, paleis receptaculi linearibus. D C. 
Marsuarwia cespitosa. Nutt. MSS. in Herb. nostr.—De 
Cand. Prod. v. 5. p. 680. 
Marsnatuia isa Genus named in 1791, in compliment to 
Mr. H. Marsuatt, who wrote a Natural History of the Trees 
and Shrubs of North America, a country to which the spe- 
cies are wholly confined. Micnaux called it Persoonia, an 
appellation which Smirx had dedicated to a different plant : 
and it is the Trarrenicxia of Persoon (not Witxp.). Mr- 
cHAux described three species, the M. latifolia, M. angusti- 
folia, and M. lanceolata, A fourth, that now under consid- 
eration, 
