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<J3g SYNGENESIA SUPERFLtfA, 



resem^ 



liles entirely in habit and appearance, it differs only m its leaves, which 

 are large and coarsely toothed, and in its seeds, which appear, at least, by 



my specimens, to be much smaller. , , t u 



Sent me from Louisville, Georgia, by Mr. Jackson to whom I have beeo 



indebted for so many rare species, from the same district of country. 

 Flowers August— October. 



iati 



Floribus panicu- 1 * * Flowers panicu 



late 



8. DiVARICATA. Nutt. 



C. foliis lineari Ian- 1 Leaves linear-lanceo 



ceolatis, aciitis, serra- 

 tisjcillatisjcaiileque his- 



pidis; panicula divari- 

 cata; pediinculis invo- 

 lucrisque viscido pu 



late, acute, acutely ser- 

 rate, ciliate, and with 

 the stem hispid; pani- 

 cle divaricate; pedun- 

 cles and involucrura vis- 



bescentibus. I cidly pubescent 



Nutt. 2. p. 152. ' 



Root perennial. Nutt. Stem about two feet high, slender, hispid and 

 sscabrous, irregularly branching towards the summit. Leaves very '^^^'^^' 

 the lower ones with long tapering bases, very acutely seiTate, hispid ana 

 scabrous. Flowers in a long scattered panicle. Involucrura many leaved, 

 imbricate; scales linear-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, pubescent on t 

 back. Florets of the ray not numerous, bright yellow, as in all the species 

 of this genus; of the disk tubular, yellow. Style two-cleft. ^ Seed oblong, 

 hispid, the interior pappus reddish brown, scabrous, the exterior wantmg- 



In this species which has long been known to me and which I sent 

 Muhlenberg many years ago, as the Inula hispida, I have been able to 

 cover no trace of an exterior pappus unless the upper hairs of the seed 

 be so called. . ,^ 



Grows near Savannah, whence it was first sent me by R. W. *^^''^[1^' ' 

 Esq. I have found it also near the national establishment on the Ciia 

 hourhie River. 



Flowers August — October. 



