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repando-dentatis, acu- I shaped, repand, tooth- 

 mmatis, lobis divarica- ed, acuminate, with the 

 tis, inaequalibus^ flori- lobes divaricate, une- 

 bus corymbosis. qual; flowers in co- 



I rymbs. 



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Sp. pi. 3. p. 1743. Pursh, 2. p. 517. Nutt. 2. p. 136. 

 Eupatorium Scandens. Walt. p. 198. Mich. 2. p. 9J. 



A twining 

 blue. 



plant, running over small shrubs. Flowers white, tinged with 



t> G>;«ws along the margins of water courses from Canada to Carolina. 

 rursh. Not found in the low country. 

 Flowers July — September. 



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2. PUBESCENS. Miihl. 



M. pubescens; caule I Pubescent; stem 

 volubili; foliis cordatis, climbing; leaves cor- 

 repando-dentatis, basi- date, repand, toothed 

 angulatis, acuminatis; angled at base, acumi 

 involucro quadrifloro. nate,- involucrum foiir- 



I flowered. 



Muhl. Cat. p. 71. Nutt. 2. p. 136. 



Root perennial. Stem voluble, striate, pubescent, climbing fifteen to 

 twenty feet high. Leaves opposite, cordate, conspicuously acuminate, an- 

 gled and somewhat hastate at base, pubescent, on petioles about an inch long. 

 Flo7cers in paniculate corymbs, axillary and terminal. Involucrum com- 

 posed of four equal leaves, and a fifth exterior and smaller, all linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, hairy. Corolla tubular, a little longer than the calyx, pale 

 purple, slightly fragrant. Stamens very short. Sti/le almost twice as long 

 as the corolla, two-cleft. Seed oblong, striate, slightly angled when young, 

 glandular. Pappus hairy. Receptacle naked, dotted. 



The Synonyme of Walter, quoted under the preceding specie'" — i^-i-i" 

 belongs to this. The genus itself is scarcely distinct from Eupa 



^rows very abundantly in damp soils. 



Flowers July — October. 



onum 



EUPATORIUM. Gen. Pl. 1272. 



Inmlucrum imhi'ica.' \ Livohicrum imbri- 



tum, obiongum. Stylvs I cate, oblong. Stijle 



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