STNGEI^ESIA SUPERFLUA. 



389 



ittj^ Ae rudiment of a small branch, producing numerous small almogt seta- 

 ceous leaves. Flowers in a compound terminal panicle. Branches slender 

 but generally erect. Srales of the involucrum linear-lanceolate, glabrous* 

 Florets of the ray seven to ten, slender. Seerf slightly pubescent- Allied 

 to S. Viminea. 



(jlrows in rich soils* 

 Flowers September 



Found on Paris Island; near Beaufort. 

 October. 



87. Saliciiva. 



E. 



S. caiile elato, gra- I Stem tall, slender 



cili, super ne pubescen- 

 te scabriusculo; ramis 

 virgatis, elongatis, e- 

 rectis; foliis Janceola- 

 tis, supra scaberrimis; 



? 



I 



3ube8ceut towards the 



summit, somewhat sea 

 brous; branches 



gate. 



J 



VI 



long, 



erect; 



leaves lanceolate,above 



subtus glabris, inferi- very scabrous, 



ghi 



oribus serratis; race- brous underneath, the 



mis subsecundis. 



ra 



lower serrate: racemes 



mulis brevibus, rariter somewhat 



? 



recurvis. 



E. 



secund. 



branches sh(5rt, some 

 times recurved. 



\ 



Stem four to five feet highy when old nearly glabroiis, when young pubes-* 

 cent and slightly scabrous, generally coloured and bearing towards the sum- 

 init a few slender erect branches one to two feet long, heaves sessile, the 

 lower three to four incht's long, scarcely one wide, regularly lanceolate, 

 verj' scabrous on the upper surface, very glabrous and paler on the under 

 surfacej the upper ones diminishing in size. Flowers in long slender ra- 

 cemes, in which the small branches are sometimes recurved. Scales of the 



* -fc 



involucrum oblong, rather acute. Florets of the ray about five, very slender. 



^d nearly glabrous. 



This plant, which I can refer to none of our described species. f>nd of 

 which the location appears somewhat questionable, is very conimun in the 

 OBk land in the western districts of Georgia. , 



Flowers September — October. ^ 



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38. Elata? Pursli. 



S. caule tereti, pilo- [ Stem terete, hairy 

 5,*^> superne tomentoso; tomentose lowards the 



iblii 



s ovali-lanceoiatis, summitj Juuves uval- 





