344 avNGEiNESIA SUPERFLUA. 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, pubescent near the summit. -Leaves 

 linear subulate, acute, very glabrous underneath, slightly scabrous on the 

 upper surface, three to four inches long, two to three lines wide, when 

 young, sometimes fringed. Flowers large, rarely exceeding four to five, on 

 branches or peduncles nearly naked. Involucrum imbricate, leaves Imear 

 lanceolate, pubescent, reflexed, equal in length, the lowest sometimes longer 

 and ieaf-like. Florets of the ray about twenty-four, nearly an inch long, 

 purple; of the disk numerous, yellow. Seed glabrous, angled. Paj^pus 



scabrous. 



Grows In wet pine barrens. 

 Flowers October — November. 



7. Grandiflorus. 



A. foliis subamplex- I Leaves somewhat 

 icaulibus, linear! subu- amplexicaule, linear, 

 latis, rigidis, reflexis, subulate, rigid, reflex- 

 margine ciliato-hispi- ed, with the margin ci- 

 dis; caule hirto, ramis Hate and hispid; stem 

 unifloris; involucri hairy, the branches 1- 

 squamis lineari-lanceo- flowered;' involucrum 

 latis* squarrose, the scales 



I linear-lanceolate. 



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Sp- pi 3- p. 150. Mich. 2. p. 111^ Pursh, 2/p. 550. Nutt. 2. p. 156. 



Stem two to three feet high, very hairy, particularly towards the summit. 

 Leaves two to four inches long, scabrous, sometimes almost hispid, linear, 

 acute, the upper subulate. Flotoers solitary on branches much more nu- 

 merous than in the preceding species. Involucrum conspicuously squarrose, 

 scales linear lanceolate, reflected. Florets of the ray numerous, large for 

 this genus, linear-lanceolatej purple; of the disk numerous, yellow. Seeds 

 nearly glabrous- Dill. Hort. Elth. 



Grows in dry sandy woods, Carolina, Pursh. In the mountains of North- 

 Carolina and Virginia. Mich. I have not seen this species in the low 

 country. 



Flowers October — November. 



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8. ExiLis. E. 



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A. glaberrimus: can- 1 Very glabrous, stem 

 le gracili, elato, parce I slender, tall, sparin 



ramoso; foliis praelon- branched; leaves very 

 is, hneari subulatis; I long, linear, subulate; 



