SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLVA. 169 
573. STARKEA. Willdenow. : 
Calix imbricated. _ Receptacle hirsute. Pap- 
pus simple, sessile, scabrous, 
Herbateous; leaves entire or pseudopinnate; ‘Gowtiss c co- 
rymbose. _ e 
Secvieet t. 8. lipcnapatel Bubtrenentont: ‘etiie-giaek 
corymbosely branched; leaves partly pseudopinnate, ul 
mate segments minute and subulate; receptacle tabeie- 
aceous. Amellis spinulosus, Pu. 2. p. 564. Has. On the 
plams of the Missouri, common. Flowering in August 
% and September. Ons. Stem 1 or 2 feet high, erect; the 
whole plant covered with a slender. tomentum. Leaves 
rigid, 1 and a half to 2 inches long, pseudopinnate, seg- 
ments pinnatifid, ultimate divisions subulate, 1 to 2 lines - 
. Ramuli 1-flowered, fastigiate. Calix closely im- 
-  bricated, much shorter than the pappus, scales acute. 
- Rays yellow, oblong, minutely bidentate. Anthers entire 
at-the base. Pappus somewhat ferruginous, rigid, sea- 
- brous, copious and unequal. Receptacle favose, subpa- _ 
| leaceous, palea short and acuminate.—Nearly allied to. 
pe Chrysopsis, and scarcely of this genus? Certamly not 
‘ A Amelius. 1s it not allied to Erigeron finnatifidum, E. en 
natum, or to the pinnate leaved Asters, he megane se 
A. pinnatus. = 
~The only genuine species of Starkea is ‘indigenous to 
the mountains of Jamaica. saore 
574. ‘ECLIPTA. “S ue 
ee Calia many-leaved, subequal. _Discal florets 
| mostly 4-cleft. Rays very narrow and numer- — 
ous. Receptacle setose. Pappus. hone. Seed 
PUB OSs ASEBCLs subquadrangular, 
well he the jeaes Sy sisldiaon leaves entire, 0 of 
flowers obscure, whitish, peduncles axillar and terminal. 
_. Allied to Bellis. Stems-furnished with an elastic, filiform 
centre, similar to that of Stellaria and Alsine, Sap lage 
n 4 in the air. : ge ‘ 2 
‘Species. 1. E.. erecta. ~ “Indigeno 
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