256 HORTUS JAMA TCEN SIS. vEsefsinju 



!. EUTA. WINGED. 



Chrysanthemum caxmabinum Americanum datum, fo-c aphyl'a, glc- 

 boso, durantio, baccharidis 'oliis. Sloane, v. I, p 261, t'o'iisob- 

 longo cvatis, subdcntutis, recurrentibus , jljftbus remotis termmali- 

 bus. Browne, p. 319. 

 Leaves alternate, decurrent, waved, obtuse. 



This is an herbaceous plant, with an upright stem, two feet high, sub-divided, round, 

 winged, rough-haired; branches alternate, erect, axillary ; leaves oblong, acuminate, 

 angular-toothed, nerved, somewhat rugged, rough- haired. The- stem has four wings, 

 formed bv the leaves running down it ; hence its trivial name. Peduncles elongated, 

 terminating, pubescent, with flowers in single heads, of a deep orange colour. Com- 

 mon calyx, sub-imbricate , the outer scales longer, obtuse, linear ; inner shorter, mem- 

 branaceous In the hermaphrodite florets the style is cloven at the lip, and die stigmas 

 thicker and compres>ed. Tne female florets in the ray are numerous, ovate, and emar- 

 ginate ; the genu ovate, margined ; the st> le cloven, and the stigmas reflexed. All the 

 seeds are ob-ovate, wedge-shaped, with white membranaceous wings; pappus tuo- 

 avvned ; one awn longer than the other, hooked ; chaffs of the receptacle linear acute, 

 membranaceous, compressed 9wartz. Browne says this plant is common on the 

 north side of the island, and remarkable for the edgings of its stalk. Sloane found it 

 near the bridge over Black-River in bt. Dorotln's. 



2. NODIFLORA. KNOT- FLO WE RING. 



Chrysanthemum conijzoide's nodiflorum, semine restrato bidenie. 

 Sioane, v. I. p. 262, t. 15 3, f l. Electa hirsuta, foliis subscssilibus 

 ovutisopposUis.Jioribusconierlit alaiibus. Browne, p. 3 IS 1 , v. 3. 



Leaves opposite, ovate, serrate ; calyxes oblong, sessile, cauline lateral. 



Root annual ; stem herbaceous, branched, afoot high, round, even ; leaves sessile, 

 most).) terminating cuueate ovate, acuminate, nerved, hispid. Flowers sessile, in the 

 axils of the terminating leaves, two or tliree together ; calyx single, of four scales, two 

 of which arc longer, lanceolate hairy. Hermaphrodite florets five; female florets four 

 or five, short, blunt, emargiuate ; seeds of of the disk black, with two long awns ; of the 

 fay wider, tooih-ietted at the edge, and membranaceous, awnless at the top. Sxcaffs, 

 The erect verbesina with simple opposite leaves is cornmon every where in the low- 

 lands. It seldom branches or divides in its growth, and risk's generally from eighteen to 

 twenty-four niches. JJioxne. 



3. MUTICA. 



Chrysanthemum jpalustre minimum repens, a p>i folio. Sloane, v. 1, 

 p. L'fij, t. 155, f. 3. Minima arvois'S ; foliohs supcrionbus triden- 

 taiis, in/t'ioribus taciniatis. Aiuhemis. Browne, p. "_0. 



Leaves trifid laciniate, serrate ; stem creeping. 



Root annual. Stem herbaceous, procumbent, and creeping, branched, striated, 

 smooth ; brat eldets al ernate ; leaves alternate ; the upper ones three-parted ; leaflets 

 wedge-shaped, toothed, blunt; the lower ones entire or sub-trifid, toothed, ovate, 

 blunt, smooth, glaucous beneath ; petioles decurrent, embracing, the length of the 

 leaviij, rfmooth. Peduncles terminating, one-flowered ; flowers small, yellow : common 



calyx 



