SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 34^ 



capitulis racemosis; in- I heads in racemes- 

 volucri squamis lineari scales of tlieinvoliicrum 

 lanceolatis, radio dimi- linear-lanceolate, half 

 dio brevioribus. E. | as long as the ray. 



stem four to five feet high, erect, very slender, with a few scatterine 

 brancnes, whjch near the summit become coryn.bos'e. Low^Wfour 

 to sKx inches long, scarcely exceeding a line in width, very slightly scabrous 

 IncfotT'S?.' upper diminishing in size, those of tL brLTstea^^^^ 

 lanceolate. Flowers on the lower branches few, on the upper in racemes 

 on peduncles two to four lines long. Scales of the involuc^m lineTrtn 

 ceolate, glabrous, loosely appressed. Florets of the ray about twenty, nar- 



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Grows m damp soils in the western districts of Georgia, 

 r lowers September — October. 



9. SuBULATLs. Mich. 



A. glaberrimus; fo- I Very glabrous: leaves 

 Ills hneari subulatis J linear-subulate, acute, 

 acutis, erectis; ramis erect; branches many 

 multifloris; involucris flowered; invohicrum 



cylmdraceis, squamis cylindrical, the scales 



subulatis; ligiilis radii subulate; florets of the 



minutis. I ray minute. 



Mich. 2. p. 111. Pursh, 2. p. 545. Nutt. 2. p. 154. 



Stem erect, two to three feet high, glabrous, with numerous expanding 

 "ranches. Leaves one to four inches long, two to three lines wide, smooth, 

 entire, somewhat appressed to the stem. Flowa-s very small, in a loose 

 Z!, J*^"^^'^' I'lvolucrum many leaved, imbricate, scales shghtly re- 

 nected at the summit. Florets of the ray about thirty, scarcely longer than 



%T SeZ'Sr''' '""''''' ^'^' ^"'''' of the di^k, six to ten, 

 I Gro„-s with A. Flexuosus in soils affected by salt water. 

 i* lowers September— October. 



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10. FoLioLosus. Ait 



A. caule ramosissi- I Stem bearing many 

 «io,erecto;foliis lineari I branches, erect,- leaves 



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