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SYNGENESIA JIQUALIS 



ing, finally dilated and semiamplexicaule. Flowers in a tei minal head. Li- 

 volucrum' many leaved, containing many flowers; leaflets oblong, oval, 

 generally obtuse, with the margins membranaceous, erect. Corolla tubular, 

 pale purple, covered externally as in all of this genus that I have seen, with 

 a glandular pubescence. Stamens nearly as long as the corolla. Style ex- 

 serted. Stigmas filiform, glandular, revolute. Seeds angular, inversely 



striate. Pappus composed of five membranaceous, ovate, acumi- 



Receptacle flat, paleaceous, the pale« leaf-like. 



conic 



Tiate, lacerate, short scales. 



shorter than the corolla, linear, a little dilated at the summit. 



Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 



Flowers April — May. 



2. Latifolia. Mich. 



M. 



caule 



simplici; I Stem simple; leaves 

 foliis lanceolato-ovali- oblong lanceolate, acii- 

 bus, acuminatis, triner- minate, three nerved, 

 vibus, infimis vaginan- the lowest sheathing; 

 tibus; involucri foliolis | scales of the involu- 



crum acute: chaff o 



acutis; paleis angusto 

 iinearibus. 



the receptacle narrow 

 linear. 



Pursh, 2. p. 519. Nutt. 2. p. 140. 

 Persoonia Latifolia. Mich. 2. p. 105. 

 Athanasia Trinervia. Walt. p. 201. 



This species I have not seen. 

 Grows in the mountains of Carolina. 

 Flowers. 



Mich. 



3. Angustifolia, 



M. caule ramoso; fo- 1 Stem branching; low- 

 liis inferioribus angus- | er leaves narrow lan- 

 to-lanceolatis, superi- 

 oribus Iinearibus; invo- 



ceolate, the upper line- 

 scales of the invo- 



ar; 



lucri foUoUs rigidis, I lucrum rigid, subulate; 



subulatis; paleis linea- 1 chaff linear* 



ribus. 



Pnrsh, 2. p. 520. Nutt. 2. p. 140. 



Persoonia Angustifolia. Mich. 2. p. 106 



