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SYNGENESIA. ZQUALIS. 
pepe through’a lens scabrous, often coloured; in the 
ing species purple.) 
’ Specres. 1. V. novedoracensis. Common from Canada 
to Virginia. 2. prealta. 
" smooth; calix small and hemispherical, scales appressed, 
ovate, acute, ciliate, awnless. Hap. Near Savannah in 
Georgia, and throughout the states of Ohio and Kentucky; 
on the margins of streams and swamps, very common, 
and constant to the above character, which may perhaps, 
at the same time, designate nothing more than the true 
V. prealta, but certainly not the plant s@ described by 
Willdenow, Michaux, Pursh, and Persoon.—Stem 6 to 12 
feet high, leaves very long, nearly smooth on both sides, 
igh scabrous; stem smooth and brown. Flowers vely 
numerous and small; inner scales of the calix obtuse, 
without points, external merely acute, and with the points 
appressed. v. 5. Anonymous, in Herb. Muhl. Oss. In all 
the abeve species the seeds are almost perfectly smooth. 
4. fusciculata. 5. mAh bang From Carolina to Florida. 
6. * scaberrima, Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, closely 
Sessile and very scabrous, nearly entire; corymb subum- 
bellate, few-flowered; scales of the calix lanceolate and 
naked, filiformly acuminated. Haz. From ie ai 
linia to Florida. Ons. Stem ubout 2 feet high, simple, 
slender, hirsute below, smooth above. Leaves about 2 
inches long, varying in breadth, mucronately acute, now 
and then remotely serrulate, sessile, sometimes subam- 
-plexicaule, approximating but not crowded. » Corymb 
small, from 5 to 10 or more flowered. Calix scales fili- 
forrmly terminated as in J’. is. 
3. * attissima., Leaves lanceolate, serrate, scabrous; stem 
