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compared with ours, and will be found different, 

 in fact Lamark has noticed some difference in it. 

 Torrey in 1826, and Beck in 1833, in their 

 floras of the Northern States have both the lan- 

 nean and Gaertnerian species, but have never 

 found them growing wild, since they quote no 

 locality, but merely copy the characters of oth- 

 er authors, stating Pennsylv. and Virginia, as 

 the native place of both. Beck besides ascribes 

 pale yellow flowers to K. critonia, as Pursh 

 (but Torrey says white) and Torrey a pubes- 

 cent stem. But all the species with whitish 

 flowers, turn yellow in drying, and a pubescent 

 or glandular Stem belongs to many: while Smith 

 describes his as smooth ; but this varies on the 

 same plant. 



In 1818 I discovered in Kentucky a narrow 

 leaved sp. which I mistook for the K. critonia^ 

 but have since found very different from the K, 

 critonia of Elliot 1824, who is the only one that 

 has described it properly ; but his plant is even 

 probably different from Gaertner's : while my 

 plant is perfectly distinct by the fulvous pappus, 

 stated to be white in all the others ; I called it 

 K. media in 1833 but K. fiilva would be a bet- 

 ter name. I found it in 3 localities of Ken- 

 tucky and even on the banks of the Ohio. 



In September 1823 in my visit to the falls of 

 the R. Cumberland, in the Wasioto hills of 

 East Kentucky, a beautiful botanical spot visited 

 by no Botanist but myself, I again detected 

 another sp. of l^uhnia, quite distinct by oppo- 

 site elliptic short leaves. I named it K. ellip- 

 tica^ and it is described in 1833 in my Herb. 

 Rafinesquianum. 



Elliot has 3 Species of Southern "Kuhnia in 

 the 2d volume of his flora of Southern States 



