136 SYNGENESIA. ZQUALIS. 
_ This extensive genus of near $0 species is almost pecu- 
farly American, extending beyond the tropics as far as 
Peru and Paraguay. In Europe there is but a single spe- 
z cies with 3-parted leaves, 1 in China, 2 in Japan, 3 at the 
Cape of Good Hope, 1 in Guinea, another at Mozambi- 
_ que, Lin Syria, and 2 of doubtful genus in Australasia. 
543. MIKANIA, VWrilldenow. 
Calix 4 or 6-leaved, equal, 4 or 6-flowered. 
- Receptacle naked. Pappus pilose. 
A genus scarcely distinct from Eupatorium. Stems twi- 
ning or erect. Leaves opposite, ovate, cordate or hastate; 
flowers corymbose or spiked, corymbs paniculate, axillary, 
or terminal. Flower and seed as in Eupatorium. 
Srecres. 1.M. scandens. Flowers in some plants 
fragrant, 2.* pubescens. Stem twining pubescent, leaves 
cordate and acuminate, angularly toothed, and on either 
side, as well as the calix, pubescent, lobes divaricate, 
val. Has. In Carolina and Georgia. Flowers pale pur- 
ple, odorous. Very nearly allied to the preceding. 
A genus of 15 species, principally indigenous to the tro- 
-_pical regions of America, there is also 1 species in India, 
lin the Isle of Bourbon, 1 at Sierra Leone, and another at 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
544, CHRYSOCOMA. EL. (Goldy-locks.) 
Calix imbricated, oblong or hemispherical. 
‘Style searcely exserted. Receptacle naked. Pap- 
gus pilose, scabrous, rays crowded and unequal. 
. Seed pubescent. —__ 
Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves alternate and entire, of 
a. ten narrow; flowers mostly corymbose and terminal, ye! 
low, rarely purple; calix 3 or 4, 5, or more than 20-flow- 
ered, in C. Linosyris, &e. hemispherical, in all the North 
American species oblong, small, and attenuated at the 
base, the scales are likewise rigid and carinate. Notwith- 
stand is diversi the genus appears to be 
sof the Missouri in denudated soils; common. — 
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