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fowered, flowers large as the preceding, and of the same 
colour; calix remarkable for its smoothness. Pappus dou- 
ble; seed elliptic-obovate, villous. 
4. mariana. Corymb simple: stem and leaves for the 
mast part sericeously sublanuginous; leaves sessile, nearly 
€qual in size, ablong-ellipticy suborate, obtuse, distantly 
denticulate; fastigiate peduncies and calix viscidly pu- 
hescent. 8. falcata. I. fuleata? Pu. Corymb coarctate, 
many-flowered, simple or compound; stem and leaves se- 
riceously sublanuginous; leaves sessile, nearly equal, ob- 
long-lanceolate, canaliculate, acute and spreading; margin 
remotely denticulate; fastigiite peduncles and calix vis- 
cidly pubescent. Has. In “New J ersey, Common; scarce- 
ly a distinet species from the preeeding; the flowers are 
more numerous, and the leaves opaque and remarkably 
channelled; fowers bright yellow and abundant, corymb 
sometimes effuse, but usually crowded; rays oblong, tri- 
dentate. Pappus double, seed obovate and villous. 
5. graminifolia. Corymb compound; stem and: leaves 
doveled with an appressed sericeous pubescence; leaves 
entire, linear-lanceolate, erect and acute; calix oblong, 
glandularly pubescent. Erizeron nervasum, Willd. Has. 
= Seaver, to Lava 
- argentea, Every where sericeous; corymb en 
leaves entire, Sheth -linear, ercet and very acute; ca- 
lix turbinate, pubescent, but not glandular. Has. From 
Virginia to Florida. Very nearly allied to the preceding 
which it generally resembles, it is, however, narrower 
leaved, and ought therefore to have been considered the 
graminifolia of Michaux, but the calix is not glandular; © 
the leaves of Persoon’s argentea are then those of Mi- 
chaux’s plant. ‘The pubescence in these 2 species is ex- 
tremely singular, appearing like white silk laid evenly and 
Jongitudinally along either surface of the leaf; the radial 
cash are also only 8 or 10 in number;. the pappus dis- ; 
double, and the seeds obovate and villous. < 
— villosa. ‘Subdecumbent and hirsutely » illous leaves — | 
entire and » linear-oblong, subspathulate, 
scabrous; stem branched, 
ers fastigiate. Haz. On the 
plains of the coor trode its confluence to its source? 
Amellus villorus. Pite 2 p- 564. Ons. Perennial: stems 
