SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUa, 



319 



Mich. 2. p. 125. Pursh, 2. p. 523. 



A shrub eight to ten feet high, erect, brandling, with the youn*^ branc'es 

 angled dotted. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, my acute, CrX threp 

 nerved, sometimes sparingly toothed. 'Flou,ers iL ter^,b Zpo^^^^^ 

 pan.cle; heads generally axillary, solita^^, sometimes clustered tXtbe 



cosn flt ''''"• , ^"^^^r^'-"'" ™-"y leaved, imbricate, iTghtly ven rf- 

 cose ; leaflets ovate, lanceolate, acute, appressed, glabrous. ISe florets 



hon''' H -i''. ^'r^'^'l r ^^^'•^ erect, with s'uL.its c^nnhent • It 

 short, undivided ; the seed abortive, crowned with a very short cabrous 



rCr 4i"eX'i!lSSt ^°"^ *' =""" ""»"'- »f "« Sea-Islands. 



2. Halimifolia. 



B. foliis obovatis 

 valibusque, superne 

 ciso dentatis; panicula \ tlied 



o 



Leaves obovate and 



oval, notched and too- 



composita, foliosa; ca 

 pitulis pedunculatis. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1915. Walt. p. 20 



summil 



panicle compound, lea 

 fy; heads on peduncles 



3 



m 



Mich. 2. p. 125. Pursh, 2. p. 523. 



inif, T ,'"" *** 7^^^ ^^""^ ^"^^> ^'^^'^ ^^1^ branches nearly erect, glabrous 

 and angled towards the summit. Leaves alternate, sessile, generally obo 

 vate cuneate and entire near the base, coarsely toothed towards the sum- 



whhih ."''?"" "^''^ "^ J^n*=^"j«/«. frequently entire, the whole covered with 

 whu .h scales or dust. Pamcle large, loose, terminal, the heads axillary 



and 



ceding *'"*' ^'^ ^o""" 7'"^' l!""^' •^^'"'''*^ ""^'y ^'""'^•' ^« tl^^se of the pre- 



cani^l'^^"'?'-. %^^«f tl'e sterile floret as1ongas"the" stamens" 

 Srt-f "J^'^^^^^'- T'^i'i'"* scabrqus, shorter than the corolla. 



What acme "w7o"I^.l' ^T-^^ ^l^ ''^^^T'. ^--^!^ft- ^'^i"^-^ --e- 



Stigma 

 Style of 



wnat acute. 5eer& oblong, striate. 

 *ne corolla. 



Preferrina <i.^^ Tti. , "r* " . * '-""mry oi Carolina and Ueors 



^rackTsh soilr^ ^^ ' ^"' ^'''''''"^ indiscriminately in fresh 



or 



flowers September—October, 



