342 SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



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Stem about two feet high, pubescent, branching near the summit. Lmvea^ 

 sessile, obovate, sometimes obtuse, slightly twisted so as to have their edrjes 

 generally vertical. Flowers in a fastigiate corymb. Tnvolucrum cylindri- 

 cal, scales linear-lanceolate, appressed. Florets of the ray five, linear lan- 

 ceolate, two-cleft at the summit; of the disk numerous. Seed oblong, co- 

 vered with a silken pubescence. 



Grows in dry soils; very common in the low country of Carolina and 



Georgia. 



Flowers August to September^ 



** Ligulis plurihus, I ** Florets of the ray 

 Jbliis iniegerrimis. \ numerous; leaves entire* 



4. Hyssopifolius. Linn. 



A. foliis lineari-Ian- I Leaves linear-lance- 

 ceolatis, trinervibus, olale, three-nerved, 

 punctatis, aciitis, mar- dotted, acute, with the 

 gine scabris; ramuHs margins scabrous; 



corymbose -fastigiatis, branches fastigiate, 

 coarctatis; radio sub- clustered; florets of the 

 quinquefloro; involu- ray about 5; ' involu- 

 cris imbricatis, disco crum imbricate, hall as 

 duplo brevioribus. | long as the disk. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 2022. Pursh, 2. p. 543. 



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Stem one to two feet high, erect, striate, nearly glabrous. Leaves of the 

 stem two to three inches long, narrow lanceolate, entire, distinctly three- 

 nerved, sessile; of the branches very sraalL Floicers in small termmal las- 

 tigiate corymbs. Scales of the involucrum ovate; the interior obtuse, the 

 exterior acute. Florets of the ray three to seven, sometimes more, white, 

 tinned with purple; of the disk yellow. Seeds, as in all of this division, 

 covered with a silken pubescence. d k I 



Grows in sandy fields and woods: New-Jersey to Carolina. Pursn. 



Flowers August to October 



untry of Carolina 



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