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semipedal, leaves small entire at base, corym 

 bule foliose, fiowers white incarnate. 



I have many other (hiubtful or rare sp. of this 

 G. 3 were described 1832 in atl. jom-nal E. 

 serratum., pfctiimlum^ rupestre,, some are in 

 Florula LLuioviciana; us to Knlrochium I have 

 prepared a monograph of it with many new 

 species. 



HELENIUM of this G. I have 7sp. and 10 

 varieties while our botanists admit only 3. 



9i2. Hllemum niscovATUM R. smooth 

 stem dichotonie angular, leaves subdecurrent 

 linear lanceolate acute entire uninerve, flowers 

 on long naked peduncles, rays short flat, disk 

 ovate concolor — this was labelled a Rudbeckia 

 in Coll, herb, but is a real llelenium with tri- 

 lid obtuse rays, bipedal, branches virgate, leaves 

 iiriciai, flowers smaller than in others. In 

 Florida. 



943. Helenium anceps R. stem compressed 

 striate pubescent with 2 broad wings, leaves de- 

 current oblong lanceolate acute entire smooth 

 trinerve, flowers corymbose few, rays flat re- 

 flexed, disk globular concolor. In Florida and 

 Georgia found by Lecoiite, anonymous in Coll. 

 iierb. pedal, leaves uncial, flowers large. 

 p. 944. Helenium flexuosum R. smooth, stem 

 ramose angular win?^fed, branches flexuose, leaves 

 decurrejit lanceolate acute entire uninerve, flow- 

 ers paniculate, rays flat reflexed, disk globular 

 discolor — can this be IL canfdiculaium^ but 

 the leaves are not serrate, nor rays grooved. 

 Found on R. Wabash, bipedal, leaves 1 or 2 

 inches, flowers middle size, discolor redish, not 

 yellow as in other 5 in centre. 



945- Hei,en2um DicHOTOMiM R. pubescent 

 rough, stem dichotomc corymbose striate wing- 

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