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SYNGENE3IA SUPERFLUA 



very acute. Florets of the ray linear, ligulate, two-toothed? at the sum- 

 mit, pale blue, nearly twice as long as the disk; stamens none; style muck 

 longer than the tube, two-cleft; stigma simple, expandmg. Florets of the 

 disk small, tubular, yellowish, five-toothed at the summit. Stamens as long 

 as the corolla. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma thickened, erect. 

 5ec J oblong, compressed, shghtly winged, nearly glabrous. Pappus sca- 

 brous. Receptacle sightly convex, naked, dotted. 



Grows in dry shaded soils, near Beaufort, near Ashley Ferry, 



bia, Mr. Herbemont. 

 Flowers March — April, 



Colum- 



3. Strigosux^i? 



E. pubescens, sea 



Pubescent 



? 



slightly 



briusculum; foliis line- scabrous; leaves linear, 

 aribus, elongatis, infe- long, the lower linear- 



rioribus lineari-lanceo- 

 latis, denticulatis; caule 

 laxe paniculato; flori- 

 bus terminalibus. 



lanceolate, denticulate; 



stem loosely paniculate; 

 flowers terminal. 



Sp.pl. 3. p. 1953. 

 Dorouicum Ramosum. 



It 



Walt. p. 205? 



Roof perennial Stem about two feet high, slightly furrowed, a httle 

 scabrous, with the leaves and involucrum clothed with white, appressed 

 hair, giving the plant a somewhat hoary aspect. Leaves of ^^e root 

 long, narrow, lanceolate, denticulatej of the stem long, linear, entire. FlotC' 

 ers in a loose terminal panicle. Involucrum imbricate, with the leaves sud- 

 ulate, appressed. Florets of the ray linear, tw^ice as long as the involucruin, 

 two to tliree cleft at the summit, white. Sti/Ie twice as long as the tube, 

 slightly two-cleft; stigmas obtuse; seeds oblong, hispid; pappus, ^^e e3^ 

 terior composed of minute scales, the interior wanting. Florets of the ais 

 very numerous, tubular, yellow, with the border five-cleft. ^ Stafuens very 

 short. Style scarcely longer than the stamens. Seeds hispid, 

 double, the exterior composed of minute scales, the interior of a few hairy 



Pappus 



rays 



s long as the corolla. 



Receptacle slightly convex 



Underthenameof E. Strigosum, I received from Dr. Muhlenberg, and 

 imder that of E. Nervosum, 1 received from Dr. Schweinitz, (Salem, iSorta- 

 Carolina.) specimens apparently of the same plant. They both differ ironi 

 the one I have described in being less hairy, and having the florets <^y°^ 

 rav much wider, in both the interior pappus of the ray was wanting, i^^^" 

 haps these are distinct, and may be the E. Nervosum of Fiu-sh, but not o 



Willdenow. 



Grows in dry sandy pastures. 

 Flowers May — August. 



