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BELLIS INTEGRIFOLIA. AMERICAN Daisy. 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 
- Generic Character. 
Involucrum hemisphericum subuniseriale ; squamis equa- 
libus. Radius uniserialis. Pappus o. Achenium com- 
pressum erostre. Receptaculum conicum nudum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Betus integrifolia; annua puberula ramosa gracilis, foliis 
oblongis spathulatisve integerrimis, involucri foliolis 
linearibus acutissimis, acheniis pyriformibus pubes- ~ 
centi-hirsutis. ah a | 
Betus integrifolia. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 131. Pursh, Fl. - 
Am. ©. 2. p. 527. = Y | 
Ecuipra integrifolia. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 602. 
Bracnycome xanthocomoides. Less. Comp. p. 192? Lin- 
nea,v.9,.p. 2657 © ' | 
This rare plant was long known only from the report of 
~Micuavx, as an inhabitant of shady hills and banks of 
rivers in Tenessee. Pursu had never seen it. Nurratt, 
when he-wrote his useful Genera of North American Plants, 
was unacquainted with it, and observed, ‘‘ No Botanist 
has yet collected this plant since Micuaux. Is it not an 
Ecurra ?”’—And upon this latter suggestion, as it would 
appear, Sprencex transferred it to Ecuipra : and a general 
opinion prevailed that no species of our favourite Daisy — 
was to be found in the New World. But Mr. Norraut ~ 
had afterwards the good fortune to meet with it himself in — 
the Arkansa Prairies, and to him and to Dr. Boorr I am 
indebted for my first knowledge of the species. Dr. Suorr 
finds 
