17GES SYNGENESIA, FRUSTRANEA. 
about the length of the seed. Has. In open graSsy swamps 
from the maritime parts of Virginia to Florida. Oxs. 
Root small and fibrous, perennial. Stem simple, 1 to 3 
flowered, minutely pubescent, 3 or 4 feet high. Leaves 
few, mg fd ones acute, all of them short, about from1to2 
“inches long, and except the radical ones only 2 or 3 lines 
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2. * multiflora. Stem branched, many-flowered, smooth” 
and striated; leaves narrow Jinear, subcarnose and smooth; 
segments of the calix and teeth of the corneous cellular — 
receptacle acuminated; pappus very short, cupulate. Haz. 
On the sand-hills of the Altamaha, West Florida——Dr. 
flowers pale _yelloy 
(about the size o! 
4 and 5-toothed, dentures viscidly glandular, the’ 
é tube corneous (as in the preceding). Anthers os 
- the base. Stigmas long and perfoliate, or enlarged abo 
| the middle, smoothish and fusiform beyond.t Receptacle _ 
the ing, but the intersections acum nga é * 
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