9YNGENESTA JEQUALIS* 



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aphylla, 



laxa, 



ramis I the branches few-flow 



rarifloris^ floribils om- ered; flowers 



all 



nibus 

 Mich. 



on 



pedunculatis. peduncles. 



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Mich. 2. p. 85. Pursh, 2. p. 500. Nutt. 2. p. 124. 



Stem about three feet high, glabrous, heaves sessile, long, tapering to 

 an acute point, sometimes amplexicaule; the lower frequently bearing a few 

 segments, always acute, sometimes runcinate, somewhat glaucous underneath 

 and fringed along the midrib. Flowers mis, loose terminal panicle. In- 

 volitcrum imbricate, the leaves subulate. ~' 



about 



ligulate^ purple- Seeds compressed, lanceolate, serrulate, browned with a 

 *ipitate hairy pappus. 



Grows in dry and moderately fertik soils. 

 Flowers April — September. 



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8. Sagittipolia. 



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L. eaule erecto, gla- [ Stem erect, glabrous 

 bro; f«oliis oblongo-lan- j leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 ceolatis, acutis, inte. Jate, acute, entire, gla- 

 gernmis, glabris, sub. brous, pale underneath, 

 ^ws pallidioribus, arete | closely sessile 



tate at base; /lowers 

 in panicles. 



sessilibus, basi sagitta- 



tis floribus paniculatis. 

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sagit 



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Stem four to six feet high, terete, glabrous. Leaves closely sessile, dis- 

 tinctly sagittate at base, tapering to a _yery acute, sometimes acuminate 

 •uminit. The stem leaves very entire, 

 cle. Involu 

 twenty. 



Leajlt 



Flowers in a loose terminal pani- 



Fiorets about 



, CoroZ/a yellow? -Seerf compressed, slightly margined. Pappus 

 ha>ry, distinctly stipitate. ' & ^ >= rr 



I collected this plant many years ago, along the margin of a creek, in the 

 neighbourhood of Columbia. The Corolla in my specimens has been des- 

 oyed, but if my memory is accurate, it was yellow. I have preserved no 

 o<n leaves, but I certainly saw none that were either nmcinate or sinuate. 

 * lowers July— September. 



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