SYNGENESIA. EQUALIS. 
flowered, scales naked, eiliptic-oblong, obtuse, appressed, 
resiniferous, at length hoary. Has. In the Pine forests of 
North and South Carolina—About 2 feet high, every 
where very smooth. Radical leaves often very long us in 
L. heterophylla, cauline numerous. Spike 6 to 12 inches 
long. Flowers bracteate, very closely sessile and erect. 
Scales of the calix resiniferous, at length appearing whit- 
ish and furfuraceous. IP: about the length of the 
seed, which is large and villous. Florets purple, inter- 
nally smooth. 
_ 10. elegans. Stem villous, leaves linear and scabrous; 
flowers pedunculate; calix about 5-flowered, scales pu- 
bescent, internal ones ligulate, coloured. 11. spheroidea. 
- Calix about 20-flowered? ‘12. scariosa. Calix about 20- 
~~ 13. eqguarrosa. Pubescent and scabrous; leaves linear, 
lower ones very long; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered; calix 
large, about 20-flowered, scales foliaceous, lanceolate- 
ovate, Mucronate, rigid and spreading; segments of the 
fiorets linear, internally villous. Has. From Virginia to 
Florida. About 12 inches high, and few-flowered. The 
. ealix unusually large, like that of the genus Carthumus. 
- Fiorets of a bright violet-purple, deeply cleft, and with 
_ the segments internally villous, as in no other species of 
- the genus, except L. cylindracea. Style very tong and 
deeply cleft, pubescent. Pappus plumose, lish, about 
20-rayed, rays more than twice the length of the pubes- 
cent and subcylindric seed. : 
tae 11. Flowers subcorymbose or fastiyiate; roots fibrous. 
‘14, pancifora, Pu. Georgia. 15. paniculata, Corymb 
_ paniculate, coarctate; stem hace legend calix, some- 
what viscidly pilose and scabrous; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
_ subacute, and nerved; stem simple. Has. From Virgi- 
16. edoratissima, Corymb panicuiate, stem smooth, sim- 
ple, and partly naked; leaves smooth, obtuse and glaucous, 
radical ones oblong-ovate, cauline amplexicaule; calix 
about 10-flowered. Has. From Virginia to Florida. (Va- 
tesves lanoceiateoblk rap a | 
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