SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



359 



of a middling size, in a long virgate panicle. The lateral racemes axJIlarv 

 fevv.flo..ered. Scales of the in^oIucWm subulate, acut rXuT,1o^ewS 

 squarrose, scarcely longer than the mature seed. Florets of the Srwan^ 

 m; of the disk tv^elve to fifteen, deeply five-cleft, pale purple !47ot 

 long very glabrous. i?ecep/«c/e small, naked. ^ .^cea ob- 



This plant, when I first discovered it, appeared to me likely to constitute 



nirV: f^^^'T"" ^^^f ^ somewherrLween Vernonb^and Eup ^ 

 thT'l U u '"'?^"^^"«? f d its habit so much resemble those of an Aster 

 that I have been mduced for the present to arrange It here-varies with the 

 lower stem leaves, nearly glabrous, and the leaves spathuEaLceok te 



Flowers September — October. 



32. Versicolor. Willd. 



A. foliis subamplex- 

 icaulibus, lato-Ianceo- 

 latis, serratis; caule ra- 



Leaves somewhat 



amplexicaule, broad, 

 Janceolate. serrate 



> 



gla- 



mosissimo, glabro; in- stem branching, «,,« 



volucri squamis lanceo- brous; scales of tlie in- 



latis, laxis, disco bre- I volucrum lanceolate, 



loose, shorter than the 



vioribus. 



disk. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 2045. Pursh, 2. p. 553. Nutt. 2. p. 158, 



Upper leaves entire, the lower somewhat serrate, those of the root ob- 

 •ong, attenuate at each end, serrate in the middle, all glabrous. Flowers 

 nancisome, clustered towards the summits of the branches. Florets of the 

 ray, hrst white, afterwards purple. VVilld. 



a^.„ ! specimens of plants that pass under this name with us, agree very 

 TmT I T^ ',*'^ description of Willdenow, excepting that the floweu are 

 *uan, and the plant of course not as ornamental as he represents. 



wows m rich damp Soils. 



flowers September— October. 



32. Ljevigatus. 



A. foJiis subaraplexi 

 caulibus, lato-lanceo 



lat 



Leaves 



Js, subserratis 



somewhat 



broad. 



^i^us; caule 



^o,glabro,ramulis nmi 



amplexicaiile, 



lanceolate, slightly ser- 



raraosissi- | rate, smooth: stem 



lae- 



'-mj 



m iich 



divided 



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