6YNGENESIA iEQUALIS. ^5^ 



plicissimo; floribus nu- I nodding ; involucruiii 



tantibus;invoIucrissub | generally S-flowered- ' 

 8-floiis. 



Pursh 2. p. 498, 



4 



Stem^ about 2 feot high. Flowers purple. Pursli. 



Is this really a disthict species, or is it a youncr plant of the P. vir^ata? 



Collected in Georgia by Mr. Eqslen. 



Flowers July — August? v 





6. 



REPIDINEA. 



P. fohis lato lance- | Leaves lanceolate^ 

 olatis, in petiolum at- wide, attenuated at 

 tenuatis, inaeqiialiter base, unequally tooth- 

 angulatodentatisjpan. ed and angled ;. pani- 

 icula fasciculis ternii- cle composed of smalj 

 nahbus, paucifloris,nu- terminal nodding clus. 

 tantibus ; involucris ters; involucrum hairy, 

 hirsiitis, 10—12 fidis, 10-12 cleft, general- 

 sub 20.floris. I ly 20.floweredT 



J^lich. 2. p. 84. Pursli 2. p. 499. 



Among the Plants collected by Dr. Macbricle on the Saluda mountains 

 *^as one, winch though destitute of its lower leaves, appeared in other re- 

 spects to agree very well with the P. Crepidinea of Mich. 



se«-| '"i^~^ ^^^* ^^'^'^' branching towards the summit. Upper leaves 

 essue, lanceolate, denticulate, scabrous and somewhat pubescent. Flow- 



brml^ '"^^ clusters, nodding. Involucrum 8—10 leaved, nearly gla- 

 scS ^''''?""d^^ 3t base, as usual in this genus, with small imbricate 



^(-s. i-Zore^s numerous, Pa/>/?Ms sessile, scabrous. 



^rows m the mountains of Carolina. 



* lowers September. 



A 



LBA. 



P. fohis radicalibus | Leaves of the root 

 a^§uIato-hastatis,den. angled, hastate, tooth- 

 taiis,subIobatis, caUli- } ed, and slightly lobed, 

 nis subrotundo-ovatis, j of the slem ovate 



"cniaus, petiolatis | nearly round, toothed 



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