SYNGENESIA.— SUPERFLUA. 28& 



?. G. uliginosvm : stem much branched; branches 



spreading, woolly; leaves linear-lanceolate; flowers 



in terminal, leafy crowded heads. 

 HAB. Low grounds, &c. Aug, ©. Stem low, 



spread. ; cal. yellowish. 

 o. G. americanum : stem herbaceous, erect, branched ; 



leaves obovatc-spathulate, pubescent beneath ; 



flowers axillary and terminal, in glomerate spikes. 

 HAB. Fields and woods. June. ©. Stem 6 — 8 



in. high ; fl. yell.-wh. 



6. G. purpureum : herbaceous ; leaves linear-spathu- 



late, tomentose beneath ; stem erect, simple : 

 flowers sessile, glomerate, axillary and terminal. 

 HAB. Fields. June. U . Stolonif. ; atem 8—12 

 in. high; Jl. purplish. 



7. G. germamcum : stem erect, proliferously branched 



upward; leaves lanceolate, cottony ; flowers small. 



in dense round heads, axillary and terminal. 

 HAB. Fields. July. ©. Stem 6—8 in. high: 



branch, few, horizontal ; fl. yell. 

 ;. G. decurrens: stem erect, much branched; leaves 



linear-lanceolate, very acute, decurrent, white and 



woolly beneath, naked above ; flowers in dense 



terminal roundish clusters. 

 IIAB. Hills and fields. Aug. % . Stem 2 ft. high; 



leav. green above ; jl. yell. 

 K G. sylvaticum : stem erect, simple, downy ; flowers 



in a leafy spike ; leaves linear-lanceolate, downy, 



particularly beneath. 

 HAB. Woods. July. U. Stem 12 in. high ; basr : 



subdecumb. ; cal. brownish. 



185. ERIGERON. Flea-bane. Composite. 



E. bellidifoliurn : hairy, gray; radical leaves obovate, 

 subserrate ; stem leaves remote, oblong-ovate, ;im- 

 plexicaul, entire; stern 3 — 5-flowered; rays Dearly 

 twice as long as the hemispherical calyx. 

 HAB. Hills. May. U. Stem erect, simp., 12— 18 

 ill. high ; fl. pale pur p. 

 1. E. integrifolium : stem simple, leafy, smooth; leav 6J 

 lanceolate, entire, 3-nerved ; flowers corymbe.l ; 

 calyx hemispherical ; scales acute. 

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