“tinity; the female 
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‘Has In the salt-marshes of Long Island near New York, 
und in New Jersey. This species ought perhaps to be 
transferred to Conyza, to which genus it bears a near af- 
> doves being’ very small, obscure purple, 
more numerous than the hermaphrodite ones, and arrang- 
ed in a compound series; it is also annual; still it re- 
serobles in some respec’s the preceding specics, the seed 
is almost exactly similar. Tt grows ‘about 2 feet high, 
and is extremely branched, the branches somewhat fasti- 
‘giated; leaves 4 or 5 inches long, 2 to 4 lines wide. 
9. paludosus. Stem simple, leaves linear and subulate, 
amplexicaule, erect, entire, and very smooth, margin sca- 
brous; branches pubescent, axillar and terminal, leafy, 1-. 
‘lowered; calix large and squatrose. faz. From Cape 
May county, N. Jersey, to Florida, on the margins of 
open swamps. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, smooth nearly to the 
summit, 3 to 5-flowered; flowers. very large and e t, 
the rays bright blue and numerous. Inner scales of the 
calix coloured. Pappus as in the preceding, capillary, fer- 
ruginous, seed also oblong and smooth. 
10. pilosus. 11 * diennis. Low and much branched, 
_ subdecumbent, pulverulently pubescent, stem canes- 
cent; leaves sessile, linear, entire, uniform, points abrupt- 
ly acute, radical ones spathulate; branches few-flower- 
ed, flowers subfastigiate; calix imbricate, scales linear- 
lanceolate, setaceously mucronulate; radial florets about 
20. Has. On denudated argillaceous soils, from the 
Arikarees to Fort Mandan. Flowering from August to 
October. 2. canescens. Pu. 2. p. 547. Ons. Root bien- 
nial. Stem about a foot high, numerously and divaricately 
branched; branches 2 to 5-flowered, more or less- Flow- 
ers purplish-blue, as large as a Daisy. Scales of the calix 
in.3 or 4 series, summits greenish and pubescent. Rays 
entire, longer than the disk. Pappus scabrous. 
ing. 15. foliolosus. B.A. coridifolius. Willd. 16. aquaryo- 
“a Leaves cantide: minute, and scabrous. 
