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it for our N. Am. sp increased to 6, wliile our 

 botanists know only 2 or 3, and blend half a 

 dozen with E. erecta of South America, quite 

 different from ours. These plants are estival 

 or autumnal, all annual, with a similar habit of 

 opposite sessile leaves, flowers often axillary 

 and geminate. All have the perianthe biserial, 

 many narrow rays and the seeds naked ; with 

 a bristly phoranthe, whereby they differ from 

 JSellis, and the habit is totally unlike ; but some 

 sp. are stated to have besides a small bristly 

 pappus, such are E. proctimbeiis of Elliot and 

 my E. ciliata fl. Lud. which therefore approx- 

 imate to Verhesina and Galmsoga, and are 

 perhaps two peculiar Genera Paleista and Ca- 

 cotatiis. As to E. hrachypoda Mx. which 

 was Amellus carolinianus Walter, with pen- 

 tandrous florets, no one else has seen it since, not 

 even Elliot, and it will perhaps be found also a 

 peculiar Genus or a Paleista. 



300. EcLiPTA LONGiFOLTA Raf. stcHi crcct 

 slender weak trichotome nearly smooth, leaves 

 sessile long lanceolate, acute at both ends, uni- 

 nerve remotely serrate, nearly smooth, flowers 

 erect axillary and terminal 2 or 3 together, pe- 

 duncles unequal hispid, sepals of perianthe un- 

 equal oval or lanceolate acute ciliolate — a very 

 distinct sp. from E. erecta mistaken for it by 

 nearly all the botanists, growing from Florida 

 to New Jersey near streams, lately found by 

 me near Philadelphia at the mouth of the 

 Schuylkill, Stem 2 or 3 feet high, leaves re- 

 mote 4 to 8 inches long, hardly one broad, 

 flowers whitish autumnal, seeds brown 4gone, 

 obovate. I add for contrast the others E. 

 erecta ! 



301. EcLiPTA DUBiA Raf. E. erecta Pursh, 



