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400 arNGENESIA superflua. 



8. Diffusa. E. 



B. glaberrima; foliis | Leaves li 

 lineari-lanceolatis,mar- olate, scab 

 ^ine scabris; paiiicula j the margin; panicle 

 diffusa, multiflora; se- diffuse, many floweredf 

 minibus obovatis, e- seed obovate, emargi- 

 marginatis, vix alatis; nate, slightly winged; 

 aristis pappi duabus j awns of the pappus 2 

 longioribiis. E. 



Root perennial? Stem two to three feet long, striate, glabrous, branching 

 diffusely almost from the root, branches slender, expanding. Leaves two 

 to three inches long, glabrous, entire? scabrous along the margins. Floic^ 

 ers small, numerous, in a loose spreading panicle* Peduncles one to two 

 inches long, one-flowered. Scales of the involucrum linear, iitibricate, gla- 

 brous. Florets of the ray numerous, linear, nearly white; of the disk nu- 

 merous, yellow. Seed obovate, compressed, eraarginate, scarcely winged 

 the crown fimbriate, or fringed with small bristles, of which two are much 

 longer than the rest and are about one third of the length of the seed. 



Grows in damp rich soils between the Chatahouchie and Alabama. 



Flowers September — October. 



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CHRYSANTHExMUM. Gen. Pl. 1307. 



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Receptaculum nu- [ Receptacle naked, 

 dum. Pappus riulkis. Pappus 0. Calyx he- 

 Calyx hemisphaei icus, mispherical, imbricate, 

 imbricatus, squamis I 3Ia7^gins of the scales 

 marsinaUbus membra- membranaceous. 



naceis. 



1. Leucanthemuji. 



C. foliis amplexicau- ] - Leaves amplexicaule, 

 iibus, Janceolatis, ser- lanceolate, near the 

 ratis, basi inciso denta- I base deeply notched 

 tis; caule erecto, ra- I and toothed; stem e- 

 moso. rect, branching. 



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