SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA, 



V 



399 



^^Sp. pi. S. p. 2162. Mich. 2. p. 132. Pursh, 2, p. 56l. Nutt. 2. p. 



iinianum. Walt 



Root perennial. ^ „ ^^ ^ 



Leaves alternate^ sessile/ lanceolate _ 



Plorets of the ray 



5eerf5 corn- 



ate, 

 brous. 



Stem erect, about two feet high, smooth, somewhat stri* 

 ite, sessile, lanceolate, smooth, with the ma ' 

 P«me/e composed ofa few rigid, one-flowered branches. 



nriratp- with fii« o/**^!^^ «.,i,.-i-^^ i * 



cmm imbricate, with the scales subulate, nearly equal, no, 

 linear entire, white, tinged with pinkj of the disk yellow 



Dressed, rmwnprl nrUU ^ fi,.^ *«^*U-,J ^ . ^ ^CJIUV> 



pressed, crowned with a five-toothed margin. 



Receptacle naked, hemisphe- 



Sp. pi. 1. c. 

 Grows along the banks of swamps and ponds in Carolina, Pursh 

 appears to have seen this nl.n. j ^ve not met with it In the law 



^»uwa aiong me oanks ot swamps 

 ter appears to have seen this plant, 

 country of Caroluia. 



Flowers August— September. 



Wal- 



■ 



2. Glastifolia? 



B. foliis inferioribus 

 serratis; floribiis brevi- 

 ter pedunculatis; semi- 

 nibus obcordatis, con- 

 spicue alatis, pubescen- 

 tibus; aristis pappi 2 

 4, elongatis, scabris. 



Lower leaves ser- 

 rate; flowers on short 



peduncles; seed obcor- 

 date, 



winged. 



168. 



Sp. pi. 3 



conspicuously 

 pubescent; 



awns of the pappus 2 

 4, long, scabrous. 



p. 2161. Mich. 2. p. 132. Pursh, 2. p. 56l. ^'utt. 2. p. 



anffpH^ P"'"""^^'- u^^'^^r ^'''*' '^'•anching, three to four feet high, slightly 

 wifh th'c mL''"''' n ^'"''* ong-lanceolate, acuie, somewhat glau^coi 

 ones obsS r" ^ ^^'r"\;''' ^^^^^ °"^^ ^^"^°t^»>- toothed, the upper 

 hZtZ.1 ,^r"-f 'T^- ^^rr ^^"^^'"^' ^" ^^"g ^^««^»-^d branches, 

 serru ate P/ ;'">' \''''' ^"bulate, glabrous, with the margins slightly 

 »%S ArefZh. H ')'J^y^^r' '^'''^-''^^ ^^'^^ ^'*h their summitl 

 ger thrthTfl ' of'" 1''^ numerous, yellow. Stamens a little Ion- 



cent co,nnL fV ■ ^*y^' J ^"^ ^' '^^ ^*^'"^"^' t^^lcft. Seeds pubes- 

 the wL'^^P.ff i'^^^r'*"''"^?" "^ three-wingedj of the disk two-w^iged; 

 thre^ offnr^ Pa///.«« of ten or more scabrous bristles, of which Two 



'nree, or four are sometimes long, the rest very short. 

 ^mws m the river swamps, commoQ on the Ogcecher^, 



*iowm August—November. 



