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VERNONIA FLEXUOSA. ZIG-ZAG VERNONIA. 
KEKE KEKE KKK EEK 
Class and Order. 
SynGENESIA PoLYGAMIA ZQUALIS. 
Generic Character. 
Recept. nudum. Cal. ovatus, imbricatus. Pappus du- 
‘plex : exterior paleaceus, brevis ; interior capillaris. 
Specific Character. 
Vernonta flexuosa; caule stricto superne dichotomo: ramis 
flexuosis, floribus ad dichotomias et flexuras ramu- 
lorum sessilibus. 
Wien 
Descr. Radical leaves on short, flat footstalks, ovate, 
quite entire, fleshy, rigid, covered above with closely ad- 
pressed hairs, and somewhat woolly underneath. Cauline 
leaves lanceolate, margin quite entire and scabrous, nar- 
towed towards the base, remote ; upper ones smaller. Stem 
upright, straight, hairy, a foot and half high, dichotomously 
tanched towards the top: branches spreading, zig-zag. 
‘towers in round heads, bright purple, sessile at the divi- 
-Sions and at the flexures of the branches, with a leaf-like 
bracte at the base of each. Calyx ovate, imbricate, hairy : 
leaflets mucronate. Receptacle indented. Limb of corolla 
five-cleft: segments linear. Anthers purple : pollen white. 
Style exserted ; stigma bifid. Pappus double, outer one 
og rather bristly than chaffy. Seed angular, pubes- 
This handsome species of Vernonia, appears to us not 
to have been heretofore described; but has a near affinity 
with sericea and remota. It was raised from seed sent to 
us 
