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SYIMGENESIA ^QUALIS 



rest. Corolla purple. Style a little longer than the corolla, two-cleft. 



5eerf angled. Pappus hmry. , r. ^ , .. vu 



This plant appears to me to differ very much from the E. Ccelestmum with 

 which it has usually been confounded; it is a more slender plant, Us leaves 

 are thinner and more glabrous, the corymbs less compact, the scales of the 

 involucrum less numerous but larger, the style comparatively shorter It 

 is probably the plant of Petiver alluded to by Dillenms, Hort. Llth. p. 



140. 



Grows in loose rich soils. 

 Flowers October to November. 



22. COELESTINUM. 



E. foliis petiolatis, I Leaves petiolate 

 cordato-ovatis, obtuse cordate-ovate, obtuse 



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dentatis, triplinervibus 



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ly toothed, triplinerved 



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subscabi is; involucris | slightly scabrous; mvo- 



lucrum many leaved, 



polyphyllis, multifloris 

 receptaculis conicis. 



Sp. pi. p. ir64. 



Wait 



many flowered; recep 

 tacle conic. 



Mich. 2. p. 100. Pursh, 2. p. 5l6. 



Stem two to three feet high, pubescent. Leaves on petioles about half an 

 inch long, opposite, deltoid, sometimes cordate, somewhat rugose, pubes- 

 cent and slightly scabrous. Flowers in close fastigiate corymbs. Involu-' 

 crum many leaved, (thirty) many flowered, (forty to sixty) ; leaves imbn- 



Corolla small, of a beautiful light blue colour, 



cate, linear, pubescent 



fragrant. Style twice as long as the corolla, 



blue. Seed angled. Pappus scabrous. Receptacle conic, naked, dottea. 

 Grows in rich shaded soils. 



Flowers September — October. 



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*** Involucri squa 



**# Involucrum 



mis scariosis ; Joliis suh | with the scales 

 verticillatis^ 



leaves verticillate 



23. Ternifolium. 



E. foliis petiolatis, I Leaves on petioles, 

 ternis, quaternisve, o- ternate, or quaternate, 

 vatis ovalibusque, acu- i ovate and oval, acumi- 



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