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SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLVA. 
42. * gracilis. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, incisely and 
remotely serrulate, acute, subamplexicaule, nearly smooth, 
margin scabrous; stem minutely pubescent, summit co- 
_rymbose; peduncles filiform, 2 and 3-flowered, lateral 
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pedicells longer; calix cylindric, imbricated, partly squar- 
Tose, scales linear-oblong, partly acute; rays about 12, lon- 
ger than the calix. Has. In the Savannahs of Kentucky 
and Tennessee. Distinctly allied to the preceding and 
also to the following. Ons. Stem slender as in 4. surcu- 
Zosus, 12 to 14 inches high, purplish. Leaves about 2 
inches long, somewhat spathulate, entire, or serrulate, 
opaque and nerveless. Corymb 6 to 11-flowered, (I have 
before me 4 specimens each of them 11-flowered), lateral 
peduncles longer and divaricate, central flowers almost 
sessile. Flowers pale blue and small, but twice the size of 
the following. 
43. conyzoides. Leaves cuneate-oblong, acute, opaque, 
S-nerved, serrate, uppermost nearly entire; stem simple, 
smooth and rigid, summit corymbose; flowers glomerate, 
sessile; calix cylindric, subsquarrose; rays 5, shorter than 
the calix. Has. From Pennsylvania to Florida. B. * plan- 
taginifolius. Leaves 3-nerved, cuneate-ovate, acute, and 
sessile, subserrate, radical spathulate; stem slender, upper 
pubescent, corymbose; flowers distinct, pediceilate; 
part 
. calix partly turbinate, somewhat squarrose; rays about 
5, as long as the calix. Has. In the forests of New Jersey. 
A plant every way smaller than the preceding, and much 
fewer flowered. Seeds of both villous, Probably a dis- 
— eset” egal 2. +. 45. serotinns. 46. puniceus. 47. flori- 
— Bundus. 48. novi i, Scarcely distinct from the prece- 
SI. amplexicaulis. 52. adulterinus. 53. levigatus. 54. 
versicolor. 55. mutabilis. 56. levis, 57. concinnus. 58. 
bellidiflerus. 59. tardiflorus. 60. blandus. ©1. Tradescanti. 
62. recurvatus. An extremely polymorphous and uncer- 
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