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SYNGENESIA JEQUALlS. 



9. Gracilis? 



L. caule gracili, pilo 



so; 



foliis 



glabris, 



Stem slender, hairy; 

 linearibus, | leaves linear, glabrous, 



fringed at base ; heads 



cap 



itulis 



basi ciliatis 

 racemosis 



9 



> 



sub 7-floris; involucri 

 squamis obovatis, cili- 



atis, appressis 



E. 



m racemes 



5 



about 7- 

 flowered; scales of the 

 involucrum obovate, 

 fringed, appressed. 



Pursh, 2. p. 508. 



I know not whether the plant I am describing is the real L. Gracilis oi 

 Pursh. It agrees with his description in many respects, and it certainly is 

 very different from the preceding species. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stem two to three feet high, very slender, 

 streaked, pubescent, heaves linear, narrower than those of any other spe- 

 cies excepting L. Tenuifolia, glabrous, slightly fringed at base, expanding, 

 the lower about six inches long, the upper scarcely an inch. Raceme ter- 

 minal. Peduncles nearly an inch long, hairy, furnished with a iew small 

 scales. Involucrum containing about seven flowers; scales obovate, obtuse, 

 dotted, coloured at the summit, scarious and fringed along the margin. 

 Corolla bright purple, much longer than the involucrum. Seeds furrowed^ 

 hairy, crowned with a coloured, feathered pappus. 



Grows in dry pine ban ens. 



Flowers September. 



10. Secunda. 



E. 



Li. caule reclinato, 

 pubescente; foliis line- 

 aribus, glabris, basi 



parce ciliatis; racemis 

 secundis ; involucri 



Stem reclining, pu" 

 bescent; leaves linear, 



? 



ra 



glabrous, sparingly 

 fringed at base; 



cenies secund; scales oi 

 the involucrum lanceo- 

 late, acute, appressed. 



i 



ie- 



squamis lanceolatis^ a- 

 cutis^ appressis. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stems two to three feet high, pubescent 

 dining, generally curved. Leaves linear; the lower ones linear lanceo 

 with a long attenuated base, dotted as in all of the species of this division. 

 Floioers in a long terminal raceme, which, from the peculiar habit oi tn 



redundes from half an inch to an 



Involucrum about 



J 



inch long, 



Iway 

 furnished with one or two subulate leaves. 



