15ft SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. 



*CHRYSOPSis. t Calix imbricated. Rays of 

 the corolla mostly yellow. Anthers naked at the 

 base. Recvjitxicle naked. Pappus double, exterior 

 paleaceous, minute, interior scabrous, many-rayed. 

 S£eds obovate, villous. 



Herbaceous; flowers fastigiate, siibcorymbose, stem 

 simple or paniculately branched; radial florets rarely ever 

 more numerous than in ^ster, to which this subgenus is 

 very closely related. — Scales of the caHx unequal, rigid, 

 subcarinate, and pointed; anthers naked, or not bisetose 

 at the base. Minute exterior, paleaceous pappus, white, 

 the interior conspicuously scabrous, (through a common 

 iens) often fuscous or rufescent, consisting of more thaa 

 40 rigid rays. % 



Species. 2. gosaypina. From Virginia to Florida. 

 Abundant throughout the Pine-barrens of North Carolina, 

 particularly near Wilmington. — rerennial; leaves all en- 

 tire, radical ones spathulate-lanceolate, cauline cuneate- 

 ftblong, obtuse, with a point, lanuginons, in common with 

 the whole plant, except the corolla; peduncles fastigiate, 

 corymbose, 1-fiowered; flower bright golden-yellow, larg- 

 er than that of C. mariana,- radial florets about 25. Tap- 

 pus rufescent, rigid and conspicuously scabrous; external 

 minute, paleaceous, simple and white; seed obovate, vil- 

 lous. The as]>€ct of this species is more hke that of the 

 I'^.uropean Inula than any other in this Catalogue, but the 

 anthers are not bisetose at the base. 



3. * tnchnphijUa. Corymb simple; leaves entire, oblong, 

 obtuse, subamplexicaule, lanuginously pilose, and sca- 

 brous on the margin, diminishing upwards; fastigiate pe- 

 duncles and hemispherical calix smooth. II ab. In North 

 and South Carolina and Georgia. It appears to be an in. 

 termediate species betwixt the preceding and C mariana. 

 Obs. Perennial; upper leaves oblong-lanceolate, green, 

 and sparingly lanuginous; stem 12 to 18 inches high, 



simple, nearly smooth, attenuated upwards. 



to 6, or V- 



j In allusion to the prevailing yellow colour of the flowers. 



4 Note. Ir.nla dysenterica and /. Pnlicaria also possess a dou- 

 ble pappus, but iu these the anthers are bisetose at the base, 

 and the rays of the pilose pappus in the first about 24» and in 

 JPuikaiia only 8 or lO; the radial florets are also very numerous 

 and linear, in the following species, I have observed the pap- 

 pus to be simple; viz. Jmtla IJelenhim, J. brUavnica, I- germanin 

 La, J. ocuhis Chiistiy Z odora, I. Vailfuntiiy I. crithmifolia, I. stta- 

 veolens, Ljaponica^ I. sguar-ro^q, and /. hirti\! in most of these 

 ♦he anthers arc also b'sctose. 



