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57S. STARKEA. Willdenow. 



Calix imbricated. Receptacle hirsute. Pap- 

 pus simple, sessile, scabrous. 



Herbaceous; leaves entire or pseudopinnate; flowers co- 

 rymbose. 



Species. 1. S.? pinnata. Subtomentose; stem erect and 

 corymbosely branched; leaves partly pseudopinnate, ulti- 

 mate segments minute and subulate; receptacle subpale- 

 aceous. Mniellus spifiulosus. Ph. 2. p. 564. Hab. On the 

 plains of the Missouri, common. Flowering in August 

 and September. Obs. Stem 1 or 2 feet high, erect; the 

 whole plant covered with a slender tomentum. Leaves 

 rigid, 1 and a half to 2 inches long, pseudopinnate, seg- 

 ments pinnatlfid, ultimate divisions subulate, 1 to 2 lines 

 long. Hamuli l-flowered, fastigia.te. Calix closely im- 

 bricated, much shorter than the pappus, scales acute. 

 Rays yellow, oblong, minutely bidentate. Anthers entire 

 at the base. Pappus somewhat ferruginous, rigid, sca- 

 brous, copious and unequal. Receptacle favose, subpa- 

 leaceous, palaea short and acuminate. — Nearly allied to 

 Chrysopsis, and scarcely of this genus? Certainly not 

 Amelhis. Is it not allied to Erigeron pinnatijidumf E. pin- 

 ?iatum, or to the pinnate leaved Asters^ A. aurantiusy and 

 A. pi7inatiis. 



The only genuine species of Starkea is indigenous to 

 the mountains of Jamaica. 



574. ECLIPTA. L. 



Calix many-lea ved, subequal. Discal florets 

 mostly 4-cieft. Rays very narrow and numer- 

 ous. Receptacle setose. Pappus none. Seed 

 rugose, 2 edged, subquadrangular. 



Herbaceous annuals; stem weak and branched, and as 

 well AS the leaves mostly strigose; leaves entire, opposite; 

 flowers obscure, whitish, peduncles axillar and temiinal. 

 Allied to Bellis. Stems furnished with an elastic, fihform 

 centre, similar to that ot Stellaria and Alsine. Sap black- 

 ening in the air. 



Species. 1. E. erecta. Indigenous also to India and 

 Egypt Its juice is said t<» dye wool of a black c l,>ur. 2. 

 procnmbens. 3 brachypoda. 

 A tpi/pical genus of 7 species, indigenous to India and 



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