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SYNgENESiA SUPEllFLUA 



und growing to the height of ten or twelve feet, very pubescent when young. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, very acute, attenuated near the base, 

 then dilated and amplexicaule. Flowers very numerous, though generally 

 solitary on short branches, large and handsome. Scales of the involucrura 

 very pubescent, almost villous. Florets of the ray numerous, bright pur- 

 ple; of the disk purplish* Seeds pubescent* 



Grows in swamps. 



Flowers October. 



*^^ FoUis lanceola- 



■*** Leaves lanceo 



its ovatisqiie, inferior i- late and ovate, the lota 



bus serratis. 



er serrate. 



Floribus corymho- \ f Flowers in corymhs 



SIS 



24. SuRcuLostsI Mich. 



A. caule simplici, su- 



perne pubescente; fo- 



liis obovato-lanceolatis, 

 acutis, parce serratis, 



supra scabris, superio- 



tibus minoribus: flori- 



Stera simple, piibes 

 cent towards the sum 



mit 



? 



leaves ob ovate 



bus paucis, majusculis; 

 iiivolucri squamis ob- 

 longo-ovatis, reflexis, 

 pubentissimis. 



lanceolate, acute, spa- 

 ringly serrate, scabrous 

 on the upper surface, 

 the upper ones small: 



E. 



flowers 



few, 



large; 



scales of the involucrum 

 oblong, ovate, reflexed, 

 very pubescent. 



Mich. 2. p. 112. Pursh, 2. p. 547. Nutt. 2- p. 157- 

 A. Liatroides. Muhl. Cat. 



Root creeping- Stem erect twelve to eighteen inches high, very pubes- 

 cent towards the summit. Leaves sessile, somewhat three-nerved, slightly 

 scabrous underneath, pubescent and very scabrous on the upper surface. 



young: 



upper 



Flowers 



not nume- 



reus, (thirty-five) in a small terminal corymb, sometimes solitary. Involu- 

 cmm imbricate, cylindricalj the lower leaves ovate, nearly acutej the in- 

 terior oblong, obtuse, reflected, all very pubescent- Florets of the ray 

 about twenty, bright purple; of the disk, yellow. Seeds slightly angled* 

 and a little hairy. Papjms scabrous* 



Grows in Carolina, in the flat pine barrens near Purysburg- 



Flowcrs October — November. 



