280 SYNGENESIA ^QUALlS. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stem erect, three to five feet high, pubescent, 

 almost tomentose. Leaves linear lanceolate, sometimes falcate, cartilaginous 

 along the margins, dotted, the lower obscurely five-nerved. Flowers 

 axillary, crowded, forming a long compact cylindrical raceme. Peduncle 

 from two lines to an inch long, clothed with small leaves. Involucrum 

 about 12-leaved, bearing five flowers, leaves imbricate, lanceolate, ovate, 

 dotted, villous ; the five interior very long, coloured. Corolla shorter than 

 the involucrum. Style deeply two cleft. Seeds oblong, furrowed, very 

 villous, crowned with a coloured, feathered pappus. Receptacle flat, dotted 

 sometimes a little hairy. 



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Grows in dry soils. 



August — September 



13. SCARIOSA. 



L. caule erecto, pi- I Stem erect, hairy; 

 loso ; foliis lanceolatis, leaves lanceolate, pu- 

 pubescentibus, margi- bescent, scabrous a 

 lie scabris ; capitulis 



racemosis, 14Horis ; 

 involucri squamis obo- 

 vatis, subglabris, mar- 

 gine scariosis, inferio- 

 ribus pateiitibus. E. 



long the margin; heads 

 racemose, l4-flowered; 

 scales of the involu- 

 crum obovate, nearly 

 glabrous, with the mar- 

 gin scarious, the lowef 

 ones expanding. 



Sp, pi. 3. p. 1635. Pursh, 2. p. 509. Nutt. 2. p. 132. 

 L, Squarrulosa. Mich. 2, p. 92. 



Anon. Ramos. Walt 



Root tuberous, perennial, ^^taves somewhat crowdedj lanceolate jpubes- 

 centj particularly on the under surfacCj scarious along the margin, the loue 

 iieaily a foot long, including the long attenuated base, two inches wide^ tne 

 upper two to three inches long. Flowers in a terminal raceme. 1 ^^^ ' 

 cles one to four lines long, pubescent. Invohicrum somewhat squarrose 

 base, scales dilated and slightly coloured at the summit. Corolla glabrous, 

 bright purple. Style nearly twice as long as the corolla. Seeds furro^^e j 

 hairy. Pappus feathered, pale purple. Receptacle naked, slightly conve j 

 handsomely dotted. t 



This species is very much disposed to throw out branches whenever 

 slightest injury is sustained by the stem. When the stem is broken, it win 

 quently shoot out four or five long branches, and then from *'^*^.^'^V|i,n 

 brilliant colour of the flowers, it becomes the most ornamental species o 



genus. In this state it is probably the Anon. Ramos, of Walter. . 



Of this plant there are many varieties or kindred species not yet discii 

 nated. In my Herbarium are the following : 



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