HELIANTHUS ATRORUBENS. Dark-purpLz- 
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Class and Order. SY 3s itis 
SynGENEsIA Potyeamia FrustraneA. 9 
Generic Character. bea 
Receptaculum paleaceum, planum. Pappus diphyllus. 
Cal. imbricatus, subsquarrosus. © 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Heviantuus atrorubens ; foliis oppositis spathulatis cre- 
natis triplinerviis scabris, squamis calycinis erectis 
longitudine disci. Sp. Pl. 1279. ed. Willd. 3. p. 2245. 
Persoon Syn. 2. p. 476. n. 26. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. 
p. 129. 
Heuiantuus atrorubens ; totus hispidus; caule superne 
nudiusculo laxe paniculato, foliis spathulatis ovatis 
crenatis triplinervibus scabris, squamis calycinis ovato- 
lanceolatis longitudine disci atropurpurei. Pursh FI. 
Amer. Sept.2. p. 570. Bot. Reg. 508? excluso sy- 
i Bot. Mag. 
Corona Souris minor, disco atrorubente. Dill. Eltham. 
111. ¢. 94. | 
Corona Souts caroliniana parvis floribus, folio trinervi 
amplo aspero, pediculo alato. Martyn Cent. 20. 
In the forty-fifth volume of this work, No. 2020, we 
gave a figure and description of a Hetianruus which ap- 
peared to us to be an undescribed species, and to which 
we gave the name of diffusus. This has been since quoted 
as a synonym of He.ianruus atrorubens in the Botanical 
Register. e figure in that work, we suspect to be from 
the plant we have called diffusus, and the description ac- 
commodated to both species. We have here given a figure 
