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Rays rather numerous. The foHage is rigid, entirely smooth, finely toothed, 

 not serrated, somewhat triple-ribbed, indeed more so than in S. lateriflora, 

 next to which species we sliould have placed it but for its alleged affini- 

 ty to S. elliptica." Smith, I. c. 



94. S. reflexa (Ait.) : stem erect, villous ; leaves lanceolate, somewhat 

 serrate, triplinerved, scabrous, reflexed ; racemes paniculate, somewhat 

 secund. Ait. Ken: [ed. 1) 3. p. 211 ; Willd. spec. 3. p. 2057 (who adds: 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, with about three serratures in the 

 middle, scabrous, reflexed ; branches of the panicle secund, reflexed, short). 

 DC. ! prodr. 5. p. 330. 



Th's is unknown to us as a wild plant, nor can we identify the one or two 

 different species which are cultivated in Europe under this name with any 

 indigenous species. Pursh's habitat, "Pine woods and old fields, New Jer- 

 sey to Carolina," is probably of no account ; and the species was not recog- 

 nized by Elliott. The plant of De CandoUe (Geneva Bot. Garden) has a 

 very much contracted and simple erect panicle, with the heads rather larger 

 than in S. Canadensis; the stem somewhat pubescent above; the narrowly 

 lanceolate leaves slightly pubescent beneath, obscurely triplinerved. 



S. Novehoracaisis, Linn, (tlie particular derivation of the specimen unknown), the 

 ray-flowers of which probably were not yellow, is apparently an Aster, with heads 

 as large as those of A. patens. 



S. asperula, of Desf cat. 1. c, the native country of which is not mentioned, by no 

 means corresponds with the plant received by De Candolle under this name, which 

 he considers a doubtful and probably monstrous state of S. rigida : but the species 

 described by Desfontaines is said to have elongated and spreading racemes, with 

 small secund heads. 



40. BIGELOVIA. (Bigelowia,*) DC. jJrodr. 5. p. 329 (excl. § 2 & 3), (!^ 

 mem. Comp. t. 5 ; not of Smith, o{ Spreng., nor of Raf. 



Heads 3-4-flowered; the flowers all perfect and tubular. Involucre cla- 

 vate-cylindrical, somewhat colored, as long as the flowers; the scales (10-14) 

 linear, imbricated, appressed, rigid, somewhat glutinous. Receptacle 

 narrow, pointed by a hyaline or scale-like cusp as long as the achenia. Co- 

 rolla, anthers, and style nearly as in Linosyris ; the latter scarcely exserted. 

 Achenia somewhat obconic, hairy. Pappus a single series of scabrous capil- 

 lary bristles. — A perennial glabrous herb, with slender stems, simple or 

 branched from the base, somewhat naked above, corymbose at the summit. 

 Leaves alternate, oblanceolate or linear, entire, 1-3-nerved, obscurely punc- 

 tate. Heads in a fastigiate corymb or cyme. Flowers yellow, the involucre 

 also yellowish. 



* " A Chrysocoma separatum dicavi cl. J. Bigelow, qui florae Americanse auream 

 coronam flora Bostoniensi et medica addidit." DC. I. c. — We gladly retain the 

 name of Bigelovia for this genus (excluding the species wrongly associated with it); 

 since the BigdoYiei of Spreng.sijd., if sufiiciently distinct from Spermacoce, will keep 

 that of Borreria so long as the Borrera of Acharius is merged in Parmelia, &c. But if 

 both the above-mentioned genera prove distinct, the name Borrera, Ac/iar. must be 

 presei-ved in the Lichens, and that of Bigelovia, Spreng., Am. if-c. in Rubiaceae ; in 

 which case die present genus may be called Adclinium. 



