SYNGENESIA ^EQUALIS, 



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Invotucrum ten-leaved, five-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 sprinkled with glandular dots, purplish at the summit. Corolla white, 

 sprinkled with glandular dots. Stamens very short. Style much longer 

 than the corolla, two-cleft. Stigmas obtuse. Seed furrowed, sprinkled 

 With glandular dots; crowned with a scabrous almost feathered pappus. 



_j ^?.^?^^ evidently been confounded with the preceding by Wal- 



' " "-el uncertain whether my references to Willdenow 

 This species, however, appears to me sufficiently 



L 

 M 



Grows very common, preferring damp soils. 

 Flowers September — October. 



and 



and Pursh are correct, 

 distinct. 



6. Glaucesceivs. 



E. 



E 



b 



foliis subsessili- 

 Liiceolatis, obtuse 

 serratis, basi integerri- 

 mis, triplinervibus, sub 



s, pubescentibus; 



Leaves 



sile, 



lanceolate 



ly ses 



7 



ob 



florib 



us 



ymb 



g 



tusely serrate, entire 



at base, triplinerved, 



somewhat 



pubescent; flowers in 

 corymbs. 



Stem about two feet high, pubescent. Leaves of the stem generally op- 

 posite, scarcely more than an inch long, but wide in proportion to their 

 length, with 'three to four obtuse serratures from the middle to the summit, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, acute at base, but scarcely petiolate, and gene- 

 rally bearing a pair of small lanceolate leaves in each axil; the leaves of the 

 branches small and generally alternate, all of an olive green and somewhat 

 glaucous hue. Fhtoers in corymbs. Involucrum eight to ten-leaved, five- 

 flowered ; the leaves lanceolate, acute, sprinkled externally with glandular 



Corolla white. 



pm slightly scabrous. 



Grows in rich shaded soils. 

 Flowers September. 



than 



Pajn^ 



7. Sessilifolium. 



E. foliis sessilibus 

 amplexicaulibus, dis- 

 tinctis, ovato-lanceola 



9 



tis. 



basi 



Leaves sessile, am- 

 plexicaule, distinct, o- 

 vate-lanceolate, round 



rotund at is, at base, serrate, very 



serratis, glaberrimis; | glabrous 

 caule glabriusculo. 



3 



alabrous. 



stem nearly 



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