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Class and Order. 
SyYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) 
Generic Character. * 
Anthodium multipartitum apice maculatum basi subinvo- 
lucratum seu bracteatum. Receptaculum nudum. Spreng. 
: Specific Name and Character. 
Senecio ampullaceus ; herbaceus, erectus, glaberrimus, stri- 
atus, foliis oblongis obtusis carnosis inferne precipue 
dentatis basi subcordatis semiamplexicaulibus, infimis 
spathulatis, panicula corymbosa, involucris demum — 
ampulliformibus nitidis, radiis paucis patentibus, ache- 
niis cylindraceo-attenuatis sericeo-pubescentibus stri- 
atis. 
A handsome, showy species, but.too near perhaps, in the 
appearance of its flowers, to some of our larger European - 
Groundsels, to become a general favourite. Its leaves, 
indeed, are very different from those of any species with 
which I am acquainted, and peculiarly thick and fleshy ;— 
nor do I find any described Senecto that will accord with it. 
It is one of Mr. Drummonp’s discoveries in Texas, but he 
probably did not meet with it in a good state of flower ; for 
there are very few specimens in the herbarium, and those in 
a most indifferent condition, and with their lower leaves 
much more toothed than in the cultivated state. Nor do 
these specimens, probably owing to pressure, exhibit the 
remarkable contraction in the upper part of the involucre, 
which is so striking in the recent individual, giving the old 
flowers the form of the capsule of SpLacunum ampullaceum. 
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