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SYNGENESIA iCQUALlS. 



summis lanceolatis; 

 panicula laxa^ fascicu- 

 Jis terminalibus niitan- 

 tibus, calycibus 8 fidis 



10 floiis. 



and petiolate, the up 



per 



ones lanceolate 



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panicle loose ; clusters 

 terminal, nodding; in- 

 volucrum 8-cIeft^ 9 

 10 flowered. 



Sp.pl. 3. p. 1536. Walt. p. 193. Mich. 2. p. 83. Pursh 2. p. 499- 



Root perennial^ somewhat tuberous. Stem herbaceous, 2 feet high, 

 aauch divided, slightly angled and pubescent. Lower leaves hastate, lob- 

 ed and irregularly sinuate and dentate. Lobes obtuse or acute; the upper 

 leaves spathulate, obovaie, toothed and angled. F/oz/?er5 in loose panicles 

 composed of small terminal clusters. Involucrum cylindrical, 8 leaved; 

 leaves oblong^ pubescent, fringed at the summit. Scales at the base lan- 

 ceolate, acute- Florets 8 — 12, ligulate, of a pale yellowish white colour, 

 JSeeds cyhndrical, striate, crowned with a scabrous pappus. 



Grows in dry soils. 



Flowers September — October. 



The root is excessively bitter, from wiience the plant has derived the 



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LUBICUNDA. 



P. foliis ciliatis^ ra 



Leaves cili ate, those 



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dicalibus hastato-an- of the root hastate, 

 ulatis, subintegerri- angled, nearly entire, 

 mis, inferioribus obo- thc^ lower stem leaves 

 vatis, basi attenuatis, obovate, tapering at 

 subangulatis, summis base, slightly angled, 



the upper lanceolate, 

 entire ; racemes sim- 

 p\e; flowers nodding. 



lanceolatis, integerri 



mis; racemo simplici ; 

 floribus nutantibus. 



Sp. pl.^. p. 1537, Pursh 2. p. 499. 



This species with which I am unacquainted, was considered by Lm- 

 naeus as a variety of the P. Alba. Mr. Nuttall considers it as the same 

 plant with the P. Virgata, and has exchided it from his list of species. 



Grows in shady woods from Pennsylvania to Carolina' 



Stem, not above 1 8 inches high. Pursh. 



flowers August — October, 



