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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA 



lon'rer than the florets of the ray. Florets of the ray numerous, (twenty^ 

 four to thirty,) short, linear, white, two-toothed; of the disk tubular, white, 

 four-cleft. Stamens four, as long as the florets of the diskj style as long as 

 the stamens. Seed four-angled, roughened with tubercles, with a thick 

 margin around the summit, crowned with a pappus composed of short, 

 white, setaceous, deciduous bristles irregularly arranged. Receptacle bristly, 

 the bristles almost setaceous, fringed, as long as the seed. 

 Grows in damp soils — very common. 



Flowers June — October. 



3. Brachypoda. 



3Iich. 



E* divaricate pros 



Divaricate, 



pros 



trata; foliis lanceolatis, trate; leaves lanceo 



rarissitne serratis; pe 

 dunculis solitariis 



late. 



very 



sparingly 



serrulate; peduncles 

 minisque, brevibus; in- 1 solitary and in pairs, 



'* short; leaves of the in- 



volucri foliolis 



ovali 



lanceolatis; 



flosculis 



volucrum oval-lanceo- 

 late: florets 5-cleft. 



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quinquefidis. Mich. 



Mich. 2. p. 130. Pursh, 2. p. 562. 

 Amelias Carolinianus. Walt* p. 213, 



This species, probably by its close resemblance to the preceding, has 

 eluded my notice. Of many plants of this genus which 1 have examined, 1 



Michaux both mention this character. 



five-cleft 



Grows in low sandy fields, Purshj in Carolina, Mich. 



July — September. 



ANTHEMIS. Gen. Pl. 1312. 



Jnvolucrum hemis 



Inmlucrum herais 



phericum, subaequale. I pherical; nearly equal. 

 "' ■* plures Florets of the ray more 



Flores 



radii 



quam 5. Pappus nul- than 5. Pappus 0, or 



lus s. 



margo membra 



a m e mb r an ace ou s ro a r 



naceus, Receptaculum gin. Receptacle ^^^^^V^ 



paleaceum; paleis pla 



Bis, apice acuminatis 

 tigidis. 



s 



chaff flat, acuminate at 

 the summit, rigid. 



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