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SYNGENESIA ^QUALIS. 



appressis, 

 squarrosis. 



superne 



rose at the simiinit* 



I 



Mich. 2. p. 91- Pursh, 2. p. 507- 

 Pluck, aim. t. 423- f. 6.? 



Vlant two to four feet high. Flowers small This plant, which I have 

 not seen in the low counti^j is said by Pursh to grow in our mountain mea- 

 dows. 



Flowers in September. 



3. Graminifolia. Walt. 



J* 



L. 



caule 



!&. 



simplici. 



Stem 



^labro; foliis liiieari- b 



simple, 

 leaves lineaiv 



bus, longissimis, gla 



bris, nervosis, margine 

 seabriusculis. 



sis; 



costa 



media interne subpilo- 



capitulis spicatis^ 

 remotiusculis, subsessi- 

 libus; involucri squa- 

 mis oblongis, obtusis, 

 mucronatis, ciliatis, ap- 

 pressis, interioribusco- 

 loratis. 



y Ion 



or 



d 



/ 



\ith 



glab 



gins 



somewhat 



mar- 

 sca- 



brous, the midrib hai 



y 



on the u 



pper 



sur 



face ; flowers m spikes, 

 rather distant, nearly 

 sessile: scales o 



the 

 um oblonp^. ob 



5' 



tuse 



? 



on ate 



cili- 



ate, appressed, the 

 terior coloured. 



Pursh, 2. p. 508. Nutt, 2. p. 131. 

 Anon. Graminifolia. Walt, p^ 197. 

 Pluk. aim. t. 424. f. 6. ? 



Stem two to four feet high, simple, a little hairy. Leaves very narroff; 

 sometimes linear, sprinkled with hair all over their inner surface. ' Flo^f^^^^ 

 in a terminal, spike, not crowded. Bracteal leaves as long as the involu- 

 cruni, sometimes longer. Involucrum cylindrical, containing about six 

 flowers, scales oblong, obtuse, mucronate, pubescent along the margin- 

 Corolla purple, sprinkled, together with the style, with glandular dot?- 

 Seeds furrowed, very hairy. Papjms feathered, not coloured. 



Grows in wet pine barrens. 



Flowers in September. 



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