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clarcd to be identical with the allied species from tropical America. 

 G)iap]ialiiuH spatJiulatiDU differs at once from the former by the 

 simple stem, erect from the base like the leaves, greenish through- 

 out every stage of growth, botli covered loosely with a floccose 

 woolly tomentum ; by the caullne leaves being all broadly spatu- 

 late like the radical leaves; and further, by the racemose inflores- 



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cence with the flowering heads in close clusters, on the lower part 

 of the stem borne on axillary branchlets one inch and over in 

 length, and sessile towards its extremity. 



Common in the southern part of the State from the Coast to 

 the Prairie region in cultivated and waste-places, waysides, etc., 



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flowering from the early spring to the close of the season. Al- 

 ways found in the vicinity of dwellings, apparently a fully natural- 

 ized introduction from the neighboring tropics ; frequent in Mexico 

 and the West Indies ; GiiapJialiiDii Avicricanum Mill. Diet. ? (Grise- 

 bach, Flor. Br. W. Ind.) seems to be the same species. 



■ Mobile, February iS, 1899. 



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