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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA 



17. SaUARROSUS. 



Walt. 



A. foliis creberrimis 



Leaves very nume 



arete sessilibus, ovatis, | rous, closely sessile 

 acutis, reflexis, rigidis 



9 



margine hispidis; caule 

 ramoso hirto; ramulis 



unifloris 

 squamis 



? 



involucri 

 lanceolatis, 



hirtisjjaxe appressis 



7 



ovate, acute, reflexed 

 rigid, hispid along the 

 margin; stem branch 



mg 



hairy; 



branches 



» 



one-flowered; scales ot 

 the involucrum lanceo- 

 late, hairy, loosely ap- 

 pressed. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 2028. Walt. p. 209. Mkh. 2. p. 1 12. Pursh, 2. p. 547* 

 Nutt. 2. p. 155. 



Stem about two feet high, procumbent, branching, hispid, very xmgh. 

 Leaves small, crowded, sessile, the young sometimes obovate, the old del- 

 toid, acute, very scabrous, sprinkled with rigid hair. F/oirers terminal, 

 forming a loose panicle. 5caZes of the involucrum imbricate, (twenty-four 

 to thirty,) mucronate, after flowering reflexed. Florets of the ray sixteen 

 to twenty, linear-lanceolate, three-toothed at the summit, bright blue, hand- 

 some; of the disk yellow. Seed hairy. Pappus scabrous. 



Grows in dry soils — common. 



Flowers September — November. 



18. CoNcoLOR. Lin. 



A. 



foliis oblongo 



Leaves oblong, Ian 

 ceolate, entire, hoary 



lanceolatis, integerri- , 



mis, utrinque cano-pu- j arid pubescent on both 

 bescentibus; caule sim- I surfaces, stem simple, 

 plicissimo, erecto, pu- erect, pubescent; 



bescente: racemo ter 



5 



minali; involucri squa- 



lanceolatis, seri- 



mis 



ceme 



ceis, app 



ressis. 



ra- 

 terminal; scales 

 of the involucrum lan- 

 ceolate, silken, appres- 



sed. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 2029. Walt. p. 209. Mich. 2. p. 111. Pursh, 2. p. 548. 



Nutt. 2. p. 155 



Root perennial, soraefimes tuberous, like the Liatris when in sandy soils- 

 Stem erect, two to three feet high, vkgate, pubescent, sparmgly brancne . 



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