V 



SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



351 



Leaves sessile, entire, slightly three-nerved, almost tomentose. Flowers in 

 a long terminal raceme, on peduncles three to six lines long. Scales of the 

 mvolucrum slightly oppressed, villous. Florets of the ray, twelve to fifteen 

 linear-lanceolate bright blue; of the disk blue also. Anthers md Stigmas 

 """" -Seea villous. Px.«».,.-> ^i:~u*i l„ ^ s 



purple. 



Grows in dry soils — common. 

 Flowers September — October. 



Pappus slightly scabrous. 



19. Reticulatus. Pursh. 



A. Mils sessilibus. 



Leaves sessile, ob 



oblongo lanceolatis, long, lanceolate, acute 

 utrmque acutis, cano I at each end, hoary and 

 tomentosis, triphnervi- tomentose, triplinerv- 

 bus, subtus reticulato ed, underneath reticu- 

 venosis; floribus race- lately veined; flowers 

 mosis; mvolucri squa- in racemes; scales of 



mis acutissimis. 



the 



acute. 



involucrum very 



Pursh, 2. p. 548. 



Stem about three feet high, tomentose, branching toward the summit- 

 leaves with the margins revolute, racemes somewhat fastigiate. Pedun- 

 cles almost naked. Scales of the involucrum loosely imbricate. Flmcers 

 middle sized. Florets of the ray and disk white. Pursh. 



With this species I am unacquainted. 



Grows in dry swadnps— Carolina and Georgia. Pursh. 



Flowers August — October. 



20. NoViE ANGLiiE. Lin. 



A. foliis angusto-lan- I Leaves narrow, Ian 



ceolatis, 

 plexicaulibus 



pilosiis 



} 



am 



ceolate, hairy, aniplex 



basi au- icaule, auriculate 



r-^.^.v.ctuiiMua, ua^i till- icauie, auricuiaie at 

 nculatis; caule piloso; base; stem hairy; flow- 



"Onbus terminalihii« I t^rc ic^^wr^l^^l c^»«^_ 



florib 



terminalibus, ers terminal, 



some 



'nterdum confertis; in- times crowded: scales 



voJucri squamis lanceo- of the involucrum Ian 



iaiis,iaxeappressis,dis. ceolate, loosely appres 

 CO longioribus. ' *^- * 



sed, 

 disk. 



longer 



than the 



