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20. Serotinuxii. Mich. 



E. foliis petiolatis, | Leaves petiolate, o- 



yate-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing towards the siim- 



ovato-Ianceolatis, 

 penie attenuatis, acu- 

 tis, grosse et acute ser- 

 ratis, triplinervibus^ 

 pubescentibus; involu 



mit, 

 and 



acute^ coarsely 

 acutely serrate. 



triplinerved^pubescent 



cri squamis imbricatis. scales of the involu 



3 



E. 



crum imbricate. 



100. Pursh, 2. p. 517. 



Stem five to six feet high, pubescent, almost tonientose. Leaves large 

 five to SIX inches long, ovate, tapering gradually to the summit, which is 

 sometimes acuminate ; lower leaves opposite, the lowest sHghtly cordate. 

 ^^tioles two to three inches long. Floioers in a fastigiate corymb, very nu- 



Involucrum ten-leaved, twelve to fourteen flowered : 



merous, rather small. 



leaves linear, very villous, 

 brous. 



Corolla ^hite. Seeds angled. Pappus scb,^ 



The expression of MIchaux, « rariter serratis'^ is incorrect, and has, I s«s- 

 ^t, given rise to some doubts about the .=r.o/.;oc ^ 



Grows in the vallies of the Sea-Iiilands. 

 Flowiers September — October. 



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21. L\CARi\ATUM. Walt. 



lat 



E. foliis longe petio- I Leaves on long peti 



oles 



deltoid, cordate 



bus, acutis, obtuse den- acute, obtusely tootli- 



tatis. 



triplinervibus, ed, triplinerved 



} 



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thin 

 nearly glabrous; scales 

 of the invokicrum near- 



ly equal. 



subglabris; involucri 

 squamis subaequaUbus, 



E, 



Walt. p. 200. 



snf -^'"l ^ K*"* * u *^ ^^^* ^'^^'^ covered with a fine scarcely visible pubescence. 

 Ion *^'"f 1 . f"*^"^- leaves opposite, on slender petioles one to two inches 



S' ti' ^^-^^ ^*^"^^' ^^""y *^""' <^ordate and thinly sprinkled with short 

 r „ .. *' "^^^ffs m terminal corymbs, more loosely aggregated than in the 

 ouowing species. Im-oiucrum fifteen to twenty-leaved, bearing about 

 wenty flowers J leaves linear-lanceolate, very acute, a little pubescent, near- 

 ly as long as the corolla, a few of the exterior ones a little shorter than the 



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