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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



Sp. pl?^. p. 2024. Walt 



Mich. 2. p. 1 10. Pursli, 2. p. 545. 



Chrysopsis Linariifolia. Nutt. 2. p. 122. 



Stem g-bout two feet high, generally erect, when young pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, but crowded, expanding or rejaected, with tlie midrib very 

 prominent, very scabrous along the margins, about an inch and half long. 

 Flowen in an umbellate corymb, the branches generally one-flowered and 

 clustered at the smnaiit of the stem. Scales of the involucrura very nume- 

 rous, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, fringed. Florets of the ray ten to twelve, 

 linear-lanceolate, three-cleft at the summit, pale purple; of the disk nume- 

 rous, yellow. Seeds oblong, villous. Pappus double or composed of short 

 hairs intermingled with the long. 



Between the A. Rigidus of Pursh, and this species^ I can perceive no dis- 

 tinction. . ~ 



Grows in dry soils, very common. 



Flowers September — November? 



43. DiCHOTOMUS. 



E. 



A. foliis arete ses 



Leaves closely ses 



silibus, ovalibus, obtu- sile, oval, obtuse, pu 

 sis, piibescentibus; co- j bescent; corymb some 

 rymbo subdichotomo, i what dichotomous 

 ramulis nudis, elonga- I branches naked, long. 



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tis. 



E. 



Stem about two feet high, very pubescent, dichotomously divided towards 

 the summit. Leaves oblong, oval, closely sessile and sometimes slightly 



cordate. Corwmft few flowered, nediinrles Inner, nakeri. ^ca/es of the in- 



Corymh few flowered, peduncles long, naked. 



volucrum linear-lanceolate, very pubescent, scarcely longer th; 

 seeds. "' - - • 



the mature 



Florets of the ray, ten to sixteen, white, tinged with purplej of the 

 disk numerous, yellowish. Seeds very hairy. Pappus double. 

 Grows in damp rich soils — Paris Island. 

 Flowers October. 



44. HuMiLis. 



A. foliis 



subrhom 



boideis, ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, utrinque acumina- 

 tis, subpetiolatis, gla 



Leaves 



rhomboidal 



somewhat 

 oval-Ian- 



bris, marginc hispidis; tiolate, glabrous 



ceolate, acuminate at 



each end, slightly pe- 



his- 



corymbo di verge nti-di- | pid along the margin 

 chotom 



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nudiusculo, | corvmb diverging, di- 



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