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| SYNGENESIA. PRUSTRANEA. 
ae southern hemisphere as far as Fine with the exce 
_ tion of 2 species of doubtful geet said to be indigenous 
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: *ACTINOMERIS.(- = 6. =: 
 Calice simple, many-leaved, foliaceous, pub 
‘ Sale . Rays remote, elongated, (4 to 8). Re- 
. le small and paleaceous, the leaflets em- 
e : bracing the margin of the seed. Seed compres- 
~ sed and marginated, with the sume persis- 
tently 2-awned. “ 
- fall and herbaceous plants, with entire, decurrent and 
alternate scabrous leaves; flowers corymbose, rays yellow, 
3 or 4 times the length of the calix.—Discal florets like 
those of Helianthus, and Verbesina, partly ventricose, with 
a short distinct and narrow tube; stigmas also simi 
sitbulate. Seeds transversely embraced by the leaflets of is 
the receptacle. A genus apparently intermediate with ~ 
Verbesina and re but without any shadow of affi- 
nity to Coreopsis. The calix and BY ys remove it from Ver- 
besina; from gree notwithstanding an approximation 
jin some measure by “4 discal florets, it is easi- 
ly distinguished by the flat and marginated seed, furnish- 
ed with transverse sutures and persistent awns, 
Species. 1. A. *squarrosa. Leaves broad lanceolate, 
serrate; corymb paniculated; calix spreading, loose; disk 
subglobose, i in fruit squarrose, Coreopsis a’ternifolia, L. 
= B. procera ? €. procera, Aiton. y. alba. Flowers white, 
a ’ _-wwithout rays. Is it of this sot oe 
2 ae 2. Helianthoides. eaves lanceolate, acute, serrate, | 
der side canescently villous; corymb simple, coarcta’ 
_ Has, In the open forests of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennesse 
and. Lawes Louisiana.—Stem distinctly aiaied as in 
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ments; leafi F ——. Ce oo 
persistently bisetose, flat. 3. alata. Coreopsis alata, Pi. 
2. p. 567. but inthis the leaves are opposite. 
“Tothis sesse sea Seay Coreepue alata and e 
ovata of Mexico. “ ao 
