156 S¥NGENESIA, SUPERELUA. 
herbaceous, but very elegant species; flowers large, brigh* 
| violet-purple. Stem 12 to 18inches high. 
19. *montanus. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, entire, 
‘subsericeousty villous, obsoletely -3-nerved; stem erect 
and somewhat-slender; branches 1-flowered; calix folia- 
eeous, hemispherical, leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute and 
‘erect. Has. On the mountains of Tennessee and North 
Carolina; rare. (Near Ashville and Morganton.) Nearly 
allied to the preceding, but distinct. Stem often perfectly 
simple, also branched, 1 to 2 feethigh, branches not fas- 
‘ugiate, shorter than the summit. ‘Leaves ‘not. tomentuse, 
ly canescent, Flowers violet-purple, twice the size 
of the preceding, somewhat exceeding those of 7. gran- 
diflorus, and-containing about 25 rays. In the preeeding the 
= are from 18 to 20. 20. reticulatus. Pu. 
1. salicifolius. 22. estivus. 23. nove angle, y. spu- 
rius, Persoon, is the natural aspect. Leaves lanceolate, 
amplexicaule, entire, auriculate at the base; stem pilose 
and paniculate; branchlets mostly 1-flowered, subfastigiate; 
-scales of the calix loose, linear-lanceolate, about equal with 
the disk. Has. From Canada to Pennsylvania. ‘1 his is 
the plant commonly misnamed 4. grandifforus. Flowers 
and of adeep purplish-blue; rays very numerous 
l linear. Stem 4to’6 feet. 
24. cyaneus. 25. grandifiorus, 26. carolinianus. Stem 
trailing “shrubby orsuffruticose. Seed oblong,-smooth, 10- 
 striate;. ;pappus reddish. 
27..* oblongifolius. Herbaceous; stem and leaves mi- 
tutely scabrous; leaves sublanceolate-oblong, partly am- 
oe ranches or fo stem low and divaricately 
Ss branchlets 1 or few-flowered, subfastigiate; ca* 
hemispherical, foliaceous, and squarrose, leaficts |'- 
4 Sn aay acute. Has. On the banks of the Missouri. 
_ Stem scarcely more than 12 inches high, compoundly and 
rigidly branched; leaves of the branchlets smaller, all ap- 
“pearing smooth and partly obtuse, but scabrous to the 
touch; flowersterminal asin 4. biennis, pale purple, mid- 
tule sized, smaller than those of 2. carolinianus, to which 
ee it appears ae siligds calix remar eepy folia- 
Seed villous. 
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