_ digenous to Mexico. Ons. Racemes not virgated, ere: 
date, secund, nearly naked, and not exserted; peduncles 
mostly 1-flowered, calix with fewer bractes; flowers lar 
ger, peduncles equally pubescent, rays about 10. Recep- 
tacle punctate, margins of ‘the alveoli, in this as well as 
in the preceding pubescent. 
26. sempervirens. Ons. Stem tall, erect and smooth; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, very acute, partly acuminate, subcar- 
nose, smooth and entire, margin scabrous; racemes loose, 
filiform, axillary, secund and suberect; peduncles squa- 
mose, pubescent, longer than the calix; rays elongated, 3 
or 6. Seed pubescent. 
{+ Racemes erect. dncath 
ris bac ee iasa. Stem tall and smooth, simple or virgatel 
branched; - leaves lanceolate, entire, somewhat aig 
_ scabrous on. the margin, the lower very bread, radical 
ones subserrate; racemes terminal, erect and compound, 
pubescent; peduncles mostly shorter than the calix; rays 
elongated about 5; seed smooth. Has. In shady woods, 
om the banks ef the Schuylkill, also in New Jersey; neat 
Philadelphia, but rare. S. sempervirens. Mich. S. integri- 
folia? Persoon, 2. p. 449. Allied to S. petiolaris. Stem 
often 6 feet high, smooth and sulcate. Lowest leaves a 
span long, and 3 inches broad, irregularly and remotely 
_ subserrate, upper leaves very entire, gradually diminish- 
ing upwards, in dry and shady situations, membranaceous 
and yeined, in gardens subcarnose and smaller, with the 
veins partly obliterated, racemes also numerous, but always 
_Tigid, terminal and erect. Flowers larger than the pre- 
: ig, With the cook goon cases i ve the pet 
‘is green); rays bright yellow, unusually broad. The 
| this species are perfectly smooth, in our semper- 
ubescent. This is one of the most ornamental 
