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1. E. erecla (Linn.) : more or less strigose throughout with closely ap- 

 pressed rigid hairs ; stem erect, ascending, or decumbent ; leaves lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, acute or attenuate at each end, sparingly or obscurely 

 serrate; scales of the involucre acute or acuminate; pedicels 3-G times llie 

 length of the head. — Linn. 1 mant. p. 157, (|?/. Gronov. c\r.); Lam. ill. t. G87 ; 

 Pursh, fl. 2. p. 5G1 ,• I)C. ! prodr. 5. p. 490. E. jirocumbens, Michx. I fl. 2. p. 

 129 ; Pursh, I. c. : Ell. sk. 2. p. 403 ; DC. ! I. c. Verbesina alba, Linn. 

 spec. 2. p. 902. Eupatorio-pbalacron &c.. Dill. Elth. t. 113, /. 137. Sca- 

 biosa conyzoides &c., Pluk. aim. t. 109,/. 1. Amellus Carolinianus, Walt. 

 Car. J}- 313. Grangea lanceolata. Pair, ex DC. 



(3. brachyjjoda : pedicels as long as the heads, or about twice their length. 

 — E. brachypoda, Michx. I. c. (but the corolla of the disk 4-cleft!), scarcely 

 ofX>C. 



Banks of streams, and in damp sandy soil, Maryland ! and Kentucky! to 

 Florida ! and Louisiana ! conmion. (Also at Mulgrave Sound on the N. 

 W. Coast, according to De Candolle.) /i. Maryland ! Kentucky ! and 

 Louisiana ! with the ordinary form. June-Oct. — Stems 1-3 feet long, often 

 rooting at the base. Heads small ; the dowers rather inconspicuous. " Chaff 

 of the receptacle fringed. In all the specimens from numerous localities 

 which we have examined, we have, like Elliott, never found a 5-cleft 

 corolla, and tlierefore suspect some mistake on the part of Walter and Mich- 

 aux. The plant which in every other respect accords with the E. brachy- 

 poda, Michx., only differs in its shorter pedicels, upon which we think little 

 dependence can be placed. Our plant frequently has the peduncles 5 to 6 

 times the lengtli of the head ; and we have seen East Indian specimens of 

 E. erecta with the peduncles as short as in E. brachypoda. 



Tribe IV. SENECIONIDE^. Less. 



Heads heterogamous, homogamous, or heterocephalous (dicEcious or 

 moncecious). Style (in the perfect flowers) cylindraceous above ; the 

 branches linear (somewhat thickened or convex externally), penicil- 

 late or hairy at the apex, either truncate, or produced into a cone, or 

 a more or less elongated and hispid appendage ; the stigmatic lines 

 terminating in the base of the cone or appendage, not confluent. — 

 Leaves opposite or alternate. 



CONSPECTUS OF THE SUBTRIBES. 



Subtribe 1. Melampodine^. Flowers all unisexual; the staminate and pistillate 

 either occupying the same, or different heads, in the same or different individuals. 

 Anthers not caudate. Pappus never of bristles. 



Subtribe 2. Helianthe.s;. Heads heterogamous and radiate, or homogamous and 

 discoid. Receptacle parUy or entirely chaffy. Pappus none, or coroniform, or 

 awned, or of few squamella;. Anthers blackish, not caudate. Leaves often 

 opposite. 



Subtribe 3. Fi.aveuiejE. Heads 1-few-flowered, densely aggregated, heterogamous. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Subtribe 4. Tagetine^e. Heads heterogamous and radiate, or homogamous and 

 discoid. Receptacle not chaffy. Pappus awned or setose. Involucre with the 

 scales in a single series and mostly united, dotted, like the opposite leaves, with 

 large pellucid glands. 



Subtribe 5. Hei^enie^. Heads mosUy heterogamous. Pappus of several or nu- 

 merous scarious chaffy scales, in a single scries, distinct, rarely none. Leaves 

 mosdy alternate. 



