SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



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scabris; ramis gracili- 

 bus, elongatis; capitulis 

 subsessilibus, confertis, 

 juxta summitatem ra- 



brous along th 

 gin; branches 

 long; heads nearly 



niar- 



slencle 



r 



5 



sile 



morum. 



E. 



^ 



ded 



the summit of the bi 

 ches. 



d 



tM 



Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, very diffuse, with slender 

 branches eight to twelve inches long, slightly paibescent. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, pubescent underneath, along the margin and midrib: those of 

 the stem one to two inches long, one to two lines wide, those of the bran- 

 ches very small, two to three lines long. Flowers very small, in simple 

 racemes, occupymg two to three inches at the summit of the branches on 

 peduncles one to two lines long. Scales of the involucrum imbricate, linear- 

 lanceolate, loosely appressed, nearly glabrous, as long as the disk. Florets 

 ot the ray numerous, linear, pale purplej of the disk yellow. Seeds slichti v 



pubescent. - ° < 



Grows in damp rich soils— Paris Island, 

 Flowers September — October, 



16. MULTIFLORUS. 



A. fohis hnearibus, I Leaves hnear, entire, 

 mtegerrimis, glabrius- nearly glabrous, slight- 

 cmis, margjne subcilia ■ " * 



fringed; stem dif- 

 tis; caule ramosissimo, I iusely branched, pubes- 

 difFuso, pubescente; in- * * 



volucris pedunculisque 



cent 



? 



involucrum and 



squarrosis 



5 



squamis 



peduncles 



squarrose 



the scales oblong, fring- 



oblongis^ ciliatis* E. ed, 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 2027. Pursh, 2. p. 546. 



LefTv^''^'' three feet high, branching, very pubescent, almost hispid. 

 ^eaves Imear acute, small, pubescent and fringed along the margin. Flow- 

 cunH "S'^f ^ termmal racemes, on the horizontal branches somewhat se- 



lonLji^'l'^''' *° ^^''^^ ^^'^^ ^*'"^- ^^«^«* of the involucrum ob- 

 dunrW ''^*'''^*^' ^'"g^d' squarrose, and the small leaves on the short pe- 

 annpirt ? commonly as squarrose as the involucrum, of which they then 



of Su H «L n *^'^l"[""^^"«nv ^^'''''*' °f the ray oblong, entire.? nearly white: 

 W the disk yellowish. SctyT pubescent. ^ ^' ^ - 



^ ^Tows in dry fields-Canada to Carolina. Pursh. 



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