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SYNGENE3IA SUPERFLUA. 343 



B. Flexuosus. Nutt. 



A. glaberrimus; fo- I Very glabrous: leaves 

 Jiissessihbus, subulato- sessile, subulate' liaear. 

 iinearibus, subcarnosis, { somewhat 

 trinervibus; ramulis 





carnose 



f)atulis, unifloris; invo 

 ucri squamis acutissi 



three nerved; small 



branches expanding, 

 one-flowered; scales of 

 tnis, laxe appressis, the involucrum very 

 caule flexuoso. E. acute, loosely appres- 



sed; stem flexuous. 



Nutt. 2. p. 1 54. 



A. Tripoliura. Walt. 2. 154. 



A. Sparsiflorus. Pursh, 2. p. 547. 



«frf r^ ?f ?' ^''^""^bent and erect, two to three feet high, slightly 

 freaked with the decurrent midrib of the leaves, very glabrous. ° LeaL of 

 the stem hnear subulate, entire, somewhat succulent, with pellucid nerves, 



fjZ P/ t °^' T 'V^'"^ ''""^ "^^^^' ^^ '^' '"•^"<^hes very small 



acute. Ffo^re/-* termmal, on the scattered branches. Involucrum cylindri- 



cal, imbricate; leaves numerous, llnear-lanceolate, very acute, glabrous, 



loosely appressed, tmged with purple. Florets of the ray about twentyf 



linear-lanceolate, three-toothed at the summit, pale purple; of the disk, 



scarcely longer than the involucrum, yellow. Sti/le a little longer than the 



aisk, stigma somewhat fimbriate. Seed oblong, angled, hairy. Papjivs 



Grows in soils affected by salt water. 

 Flowers in September and October. 



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6. Palcdosits. 



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A. foliis sessilibus, I Leaves sessile, sub 

 subulatis, glabris,mar- uIate,glabrous, with the 



gine seabris; peduncu- margin scabrous; pe- 



iis paucis, unifloris; in- duncles few, one-flow- 



volucris squarrosis, ered; involucrum squar- 



squamis inferioribus, rose, the lower scales 



foli 



laceis. I leaflike. 



Sp. pi. 3 p. 2033. Mich. 2. p. Pursh, ?. p. 54?, 



A. Qrandifleras? Walt. p. ' ^ 



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