STNGENESIA .EQUALIS. 



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culatis 



superioribus I the upper undivided. 



mdiyisis, linearibus, linear, clustered, 

 fasciculatis, omnibus dotted, pubescent, 

 punctatis, pubescenti 

 bus. E. 



ail 



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Sp. pi. 3. p. 1750. Pursh, 2. p. 512. Nutt. 2, p. 135. 



E. Compositifolium. Walt. p.*199. 

 Chrysocoma Coronopifolia. Mich. 2. 



p. 102. 



■W-* 



Root perennial creeping ? Stem herbaceous, erect, three to four feet 

 high, pubescent. Lower leaves pinnatifid, segments five to seven, liaear 



Po n'dtith t^h '1' ^^'^htly and spari-^gl/denticulate. PanllecoZl 

 pound, w ith the branches expanding. Involucrum eight to ten-leaved, five- 

 flowered, the five nUcrior leaves equal, imbricated at base, with three t'o fi4 

 smaller ones, all pubescent, Imear-lanceolate, very acute. Corolla white, 

 he rn L^""';^^ ^° '!f involucrum, slightly five-cleft. Stamens as long as 



* UvnZf ^r'"^ ''^•^T' ^"^^^'J- ^^^^' '""^'^ '«"g" than the stamens, 



™r.i 1 T'"' 'n^'''- ^'^^ glabrous, crowned with a scabrous pap' 



pus as long as the corolla. ^ ^ 



ter'^thev S;^''-'' f T!^ ''i^'"^ *° '^' preceding, although agreeing in charac 

 ter they differ m habit and appearance from all the other species of this 

 genus— under this name two species are now probably included. 

 <jrows in dry poor soils. 



Flowers September— October. 



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3. P[NIVATIFIDUxlI. 



E. 



, E. foliis pinnatifidis, 

 inferioribus verticilla- 

 tis, superioribus alter 



patis, Jaciniis lineari 



^ibus corymbosis. 



Roof perennial. 



E. 



Leaves 



pinnatifid, 



us, pubescentibus; flo- scent 



the lower verticillate^ 

 the upper alternate, the 

 segments linear, pube- 



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flowers in co 



rymbs. 



towards -ti,^ • "^^T ^^^^^' ^^'■^^ *** ^^"'" ^^^t '"gh, striate, branching 



bv four, t ?T''' P"^^«^^"t on the branches. Lower leaves verticillati 

 and . SlfT f r^ '"'J'"' '"^"^^ pinnatifid, the segments linear, one to one 

 fSi. . i *""!' *^? "PP^" generally alternate. Flotvers in a large 



oblnnr U^'^'-^f //U'o?tfcn<m eight to ten-leaved, five-flowered: leaves 

 Cornt \T. ?^' pubescent, sprinkled on the back with glandular dots, 

 cleft %/•'• ^'''''^^f; Styk much longer than the corolla, deeply two- 

 ♦-d with? f T S^^"^"^^- '^^^'^ oblong, deeply striate or furrowed; crown, 

 -ri a scabrous pappus rather longer than the corolla. 



plant appears to connect the two preceding species g-ith the rest of 



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