SYNGENESIA ^QUALIS. 



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L. Tomentosa of Michaux. It agrees^ however, in so many other respects 

 that I think it may be adopted as that species^ at least, until a better claim- 

 ant for the name shall be discovered. 



Grows in damp soils along the margins of swamps in Geortria. 

 Flowers, September — October. ^ 



20. AValteri. 



E. 



L. caule simplici, su 



Stem simple, hairy 



peine piloso; foliis Ian- near the summit: leaves 



ceolatis, acutis 



gla 

 basr 



lanceolate, acute, gla 

 brous, dotted, attenu 



bris, punctatis 



attenuatis; floribus co- I ate at base; flowers in 



^ypbosis, involucris | corymbs, involucrum 



the 

 scales acute, tomen- 



muhifloris, squamisa- j many flowered, 

 cutis, tomentosis. 



E. 



tose. 



Anon. Uniflor. Walter, p. 198. 



Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, nearly glabrous at base, very 

 hairy towards the summit. Root leaves narrow, lanceolate, glabrous, with 

 the attenuated base three to five inches long; stem leaves diminishing in size, 

 the upper ones very small, ovate, sessile and hairy. Corymb few flowered. 

 Branches, one to five flowered. Scales of the involucrum ovate, acute, 

 coloured, tomen tose. Corolla deep purple. Seeds furrowed, a little hairy, 

 crowned with the coloured slightly feathered pappus. 



J his plant appears to form an intermediate species between L. Bcllidifolia 

 Md Tomentosa. 



Grows in St. John's, Berkeley. 

 Flowers, September— October. 



VERNONIA. Gen. Tl. 1262. 



dum. 



I^eceptaculum 



nu 



exterior 



brevi; 



lari 



Pappus duplex: 



paleaceus. 





is. 



interior capil 



crum ov- 



atum, imbricatum. 



Receptacle naked. 



Pappus double. 



the 



exterior chaflfy, short, 

 the interior capillary. 



Irvcolucrwn ovate, im- 

 bricate. 



