\-- 



Syngenesia superflua. 



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25. PUNICEUS. 



r u ^* ^*?*"^ amplexicau- I Leaves amplexicaule 

 lib us, lanceolatis, ser- ' 



ra* 



lanceolate, " serrate, 



slightly scabrous; bran- 

 ches 



ratis, scabriusculis, 

 mis paniculatis, involu 

 cris laxis discum su 

 perantibus, 



iineari-lanceoIatrs,sub- I linear-lanceolate, near 



paniculate; invo- 



lucrum loose, longer 



squamis | than the disk; scales 



aequalibus; caule 

 pido. 



his- I ]y equal; stem hispid. 



Sp. pi. S. p. 2040. Mich.2.p.ll5. Pursh, 2. p. 554. Nutt. 2.p. 158. 



The plant w^ich in the low country of Carolina and Georgia has been 

 considered as the A. Puniceus, differs so much from the Northern specimens 

 wtHch 1 possess, that it ought probably to constitute a new species. 



1 he specific character above quoted is taken from Willdenow. I shall 

 now describe the plant as it appears to us. 



Siem two to three, feet high, robust, lucid, glabrous, the branches furrowed, 

 pubescent. Leaves sessile, spathulate-lanceolate, dilated and seraiamplex' 

 caule, acutely serrate, smooth on the under surface, scabrous on the 

 upper, SIX inches long and nearly two wide, when young pubescent. Flow 

 ers large, namerous, with a corymbose panicle. Scales of the involucrum 

 numerous, imbricate, linear, acute, fringed, reflected. Florets of the ray 

 twenty to thirty, linear-lanceolate, bright purplej of the disk numerous, 

 ^rellow. ^M/Aers exserted. *S"ee<f angled, a little hairy. 



Grows along the margins of our rivers. Very 



of the Ogeckee. 

 Flowers October 



•November, 



26. ACUMINATUS. 



A. foliis lato-lanceo 

 'atis, inferne attenua 



Leaves broad 



5 



Ian 



. , ceolate, tapering to- 

 ws, mtegris, superne wards the base, entire, 

 inaequaliter serratis, unequally serrate near 

 Jongissime acuminatis; the summit, conspicu- 

 caulesimplici,flexuoso, 

 anguloso, panicula co- 



fymbosa, divaricato- 

 dichot 



stem 



an 



oina; 



ously acuminate, 

 simple, flexuous, 

 gled; panicle corym- 



involucri ! bose, divaiicate, dicho- 



