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BYNGENESIA ^QUALIS. 



the genus. It has the pinnatifid leaves of the former, with the corymbose 

 flowers that distinguish all of the subsequent species. 



Grows in damp soils, in the middle districts of Carolina. 



Flowers September — October, 



4. LlIVEARIFOLIUM. Walt. 



E. caule subprociim- 



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bente, superne villoso; 

 foliis caulinis oppositis 

 lanceolate - linearibus, 

 rarissime dentatis, in- 

 terdiim fasciculatis; 



Stem somewhat pro- 

 cumbent, villous tow- 

 ards the summit; stem 

 leaves opposite, lance 



olate 



hnear, rarely 



toothed. 



sometimes 



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stylo corollam subae- clustered; style as long 

 quante. j as the corolla. 



Walt. p. 199. Mich. 2. p. 97- Pursh, 2. p. 513.? Sp. pi. 3. p. 1750.? 



Stem generally procumbent, one to two feet high, almost viscidly pubes^ 

 eent. branches opposite and alternate. Stem leaves generally opposite, ses* 

 sile, three-nerved, pubescent, slightly scabrous, having generally at their 

 base verticillate clusters of smaller leaves. Floicers in an irregular corymb. 

 Involucrum cylindrical, ten-leaved, five-flowered j leaves linear, very vil- 

 lous, sprinkled with glandular dots. Corolla white. Stamens very short. 

 Germ angled. Style two-cleft, not longer than the corolla. Stigmas ob- 

 tuse, glandular- Seed furrowed, crowned with a scabrous pappus. 



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Grows commonly in dry soils. 



Flowers August — October. 



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5. Hyssopifolium. 



Linu. 



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E. caule erecto; foliis 



Stem erect; lowest 



infimis oppositis,lanceo- leaves opposite,lanceo- 

 lato-hnearibus, subden- | late - linear, 

 tatis; corymbo subfas- 



tigmto; 



stylo 



corolla 



multo lonsiore. 



slightly 

 toothed; corymb nearly 

 fastigiate; style much 

 longer than the corolla. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1749.? Pursh, 2. p. 512.? 



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Stem straight, erect, about two feet high, pubescent, branches generaUy 

 Sllemate. Leaves sessile, the lowest opposite, the upper alternate, Im^a' 

 lanceolate, slightly toothed, dotted, pubescent, bearing sometimes at base 

 clusters of sm^I leaves. Flowers in a terminal, somewhat fastigiate coryro • 



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