SYNGENESIA -SQUALIS. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1752. Walt. p. 199. Pursh, 2. p. 513. 

 E. Glandulosum. Mich. 2. p. 98. 



Stem erect, about two feet high, striate, villous. 



299^ 



)es- 



. ,' „ .\ p'-' , ."^v.„o. Lower /eawes opposite, 



the upper alternate, all sessile, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, dotted ijul 



cent and scabrous. Flowers in fastigiate corymbs. Involucruni ten-leRved, 

 five-flowered; leaves Imear-lanceolate, very acute, thickly sprinkled witl^ 

 glandular dots. Corolla white. Stamens short. Anthers purple Style 

 scarcely longer than the Corolla^ two-cleft. Seeds fuiTowed, crowned with 

 a scabrous pappus. 



Grows in dry poor soils. 

 Flowers August — September. 



10. Parviflorlm. 



E. 



E. foliis sessilibus, I Leaves sessile, nar* 

 angusto-lanceolatis, a- row lanceolate, very 

 «»♦... .._ . • acutely serrate, pubes 



cutissime serratis, tri 



owers 



plinervibus, 

 pubescentibus; floril5iis 

 corymbosis, parvulis, | small 

 seminibus 



E. 



utrinque | cent on both surfaces 



corymbs 



in 



angulatis. 



? 



seeds angled 



> 



; 



and 



Stem about two feet high, pubescent. Leaves opposL. . ......»ai^, 



about two mches long, with numerous and acute serratures, entire at base, 

 and tapenng almost to a petiole. Flowers in terminal corymbs. Livolu- 

 crum eight to ten-leaved ; the interior leaves strap shaped, the exterior small, 

 all very pubescent and sprinkled with glandular dots. Corolla white, with 

 the pappus scarcely longer than the involucrura. , Sti/le much longer tfian 

 ttie corolla. Seeds angled not furrowed. Paj)2nis very slightly scabrous. 



1 he flowers of this plant are much smaller than those ol 

 corymbose species which I have seen. 



Collected in St. Thomas' by Mr. Caradeux. 



flowers in September. 



any 



11. SCABRIDUM 



E. 



E. foliis sessilibus 

 ovato-lanceolatis, a 

 cute serratis, basi inte- 



) 



Leaves 



ovate 



gns, 



subscabris, subtus sub 



lanceolate, acutely 

 ate, entire at base, pu 



\ 



pubescentibus, bescent, slightly sca- 



brous, somewhat g 



h. 

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