330 9YNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



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Root perennial. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, simple, glabroiiS, 

 Leaves of the root obovatCj sometimes nearly rounds crenate, glabrous^ with 

 an attenuated base about an inch long; leaves of the stem sessile, small, pin- 

 iiatifid, a little woolly at the base. Flowers in small terminal panicles. 

 Involucrwn simple y imny leaved; leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, with 

 one or two small subulate leaves at base; florets of the ray ten to twelve, 

 yellow; florets of the disk numerous. Stamens as long as the corolla. 

 Seed oblong, striate. Pappus simple, hairy, white. 



In the specimens which I have from this State, the leaves are more orbi- 

 cular, thicker, and the flowers larger than those from Pennsylvania; per- 

 haps they form distinct species. 



Grows near Vance^s ferry, on the Santee river. 



Flowers. 



5. BALSAMITiE* 



S. foliis radicalibus 

 oblongis^senalis^petio- 

 latis, caulinis inferiori- 

 biis lyrato-pinnatifidis^ 

 serratis, sumniis pinna- 



Leaves of the root 



oblong, serrate, on pe- 

 tioles, of the stem, the 

 lower lyrate pinnatilid, 

 serrate,the highest pin- 



tifidis, dentatis;floribus [ natifid, toothed; flow 

 subunibellatis;caulepe- I ers somewhat umbel 

 duncidisque basi villo- late; stem and pediin 



SIS. 



cles villous at base. 



Sp. pL S. p. 1999- Pursh, 2. p. 530. 



Hoot perennial. Stem one to two feet high, glabrous except at the ori- 

 gin of the leaves, simple, slender. Leaves of the root oblong, oval or ovate, 

 serrate and crenate, glabrous, supported on petioles four to six inches long, 

 a little woolly at the base; leaves of the stem incised, pinnatifid, toothed. 

 Flowers in small terminal umbels. Tnvolucrum simple, many leaved ; leaf- 

 lets linear-lanceolate, membranaceous along the margin, with one or two 

 small setaceous leaves at base ; florets of the ray ten to twelve, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, deeply three-cleft, differing in this respect from all the other species 

 of this genus in my collection; florets of the disk numerous. Stamens about 

 as long as the corolla. Seeds naked, striate. Pappus setaceous, white- si- 

 milar on all the florets. 



Grows in damp pine barrens- Dr. JVUBride^ 

 " Flowers April — May, 



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