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SYNGENESIA iEQUALlS 



Grows in the western districts of Georgia; very common in the prairies 



of the Alabama. 



Flowers September— October.* 



MIKANIA. Willd. 



Receptaculum 



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dum. 

 Involucrum 4 



Pappus pilosus. 



Gphyl 



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Receptacle 

 Pappus hairy. 

 lucrum 4 — 6 leaved, 



naked. 



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lum, 4 — 6 florum. Sty- j 4 — 6 flowered. 

 lus semibifidus, longus. 



long, deeply cleft 



Style 



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1. ScAiNDENS. 



M. caule scandente^ I Stem scandent, gla- 

 glabro; foliis cordatis, j brous; leaves heart- 



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* This genus, closely allied in habit and appearance to the Eupatorium, 

 possesses nearly all the artificial characters of the Liatris. One other species I 

 wish to add to this genus, though perhaps not strictly within the limits of 

 this publication. - 



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3. Glutinosa. E. 



K. glutinoso-pubescens ; foHis I Pubescent, glutinous; leaves Ian- 



lanceolatis, superne attenuatis, in- 

 Ciso-dentatis, confertis; floribus co- 

 rymboso-paniculatis. 



ceolate, tapering towards the sum- 

 mit, notched and toothed, crowded; 

 flowers in paniculate corymbs. 



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Stem about two feet high, branching, with the leaves and calyx very pu- 

 bescent, sprinkled with glandular dots, and covered with a viscid or gluti- 

 nous exudation. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, the lower sometimes ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, the upper linear, the large leaves irregularly notched and toothed^ 

 sometimes laciniate. Flowers in long terminal panicles, composed of small 

 corymbs. Involucrum cylindrical, containing eight to ten flowers; scales 

 linear, the exterior very small. Corolla white. Style as in all of this ge- 

 nus, scarcely longer than the corolla- Seeds finely striate, pubescent. F^i*" 

 jpiis as in the two preceding species, beautifully feathered. 



Grows in the prairies of the Alabama. 



Flowers September — October. 



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