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GRINDELIA INULOIDES. FLEA-BANE-LIKE 
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Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) 
Generic Character. 
—Capitulum multiflorum tetragonum, fi. radii 1-seriatis 
ligulatis (in unica spec. nullis), disez tubulosis 5-dentatis 
hermaphroditis. Receptaculum foveolatum. Involucrum 
basi hemisphericum, squamis pluriserialibus imbricatis. 
Anthere basi nude nec caudate. Achenia obovata aut 
subangulata, glabra. Pappus pauci -aristatus deciduus, 
aristis crassis rigidis —Suffrutices aut Herbe Americane ad 
apices et presertim ad involucra glutinifere. Folia alterna 
serrata aut integra, radicalia sepius spathulata, caulina 
sessilia aut semiamplexicaulia. Capitula ad apices solitaria. 
Flores flavi. DC. 
| Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Grinpewia inuloides ; caule basi suffruticoso, foliis glabris 
radicalibus spathulatis, caulinis subovatis serratis basi | 
latioribus subamplexantibus, pedunculis pubescenti- 
bus, involucris glabris. Dun. 
~ Grinversa inuloides. Willd. Mag. Nat. zu Berl. 1807. p. 
261. Enum. p. 894. Dun. in Mem. du Mus. ». 5. p- 
50. t. 15. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 579. 
Dont inuloides. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 29. 
(A.) foliis pubescentibus. as 
GrinveEwia inuloides. Bot. Reg. t. 243. — 
I have reason to think that the individuals of the Genus 
GrinveEtA are liable to very considerable variation, so that 
I have sometimes found it difficult to draw the line of dis- 
tinction 
