408 



STNGENE3IA SUPERFLUA. 



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sessile, spatliulate-Ianceolate, dentate, hairy, sprinkled with glandular atoma. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary and terminal. Involucrum one-leaved, deeply 

 four-parted, the segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, hairy on the outer surface, 

 glabrous within, the margins reflected and united render the involucrum 

 four-angled, and in some measure four-winged. Florets of the ray six to 

 eight, large lanceolate, unequally three-toothed, yellow; of the disk nuitie- 

 rous, (about fifty,) tubular, yellowish, with the margin five-cleft. Anthers 

 longer than the florets of the disk. Styles longer than the stamens, two- 

 cleft. Stigmas rcflexed. Seeds obovate, slightly angled, pubescent at the 

 summit. Pappus 0. Receptacle conic, chaify, the scales lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, nerved, sprinkled with glandular dots. 



Grows in dry sandy soils. 



Flowers May — Juiie, and frequently again in the autumn. 



BUPHTHALMUM. Gen. Pl. 1231. 



Involucrum foliace 



Involucrum 



leafy. 



um. 



Seminum latera, I Angles of the seeds, 

 praesertim radii margi- especially of the ray, 

 nata. Pappus margo winged. Pappus an 



obj^oletus, sive 4-den- 



> 



tatus. Receptaculum j times obscurely 



obsolete margin, some 



4 



paleaceum 



toothed, 

 ch afiy. 



Receptacle 



1. Frutescens. 



B. foliis oppositis 



cimeato 



, 1 Leaves opposite, cu 

 lanceolatis, f neate lanceolate, car 



carnosis, incanis; peti- nose, hoary; the peti- 



olis 



bidentatisj caule I oles 2-toothed 



? 



stem 



fruticoso. 



shrubby. 



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Sp. pi. 3. p. 2064. Walt, p. 212. Mich. 2. p. 130. Pursh 



Kutt. 2. p. 172 



roots 



Stem one to two feet 



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high, glabrous, pubescent at the summits, brandling. juc«*.c« ^^.^— . 

 «ile, semiamplexicaulej entire, obscurely three-nerved, glaucous, the attenu- 

 ated base two to five toothed, sometimes on the branches one or none. 

 Flowers solitary, terminal. Involucrum many leaved, imbricate; leaves 



lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate 



Involucrum many leaved, imbricate; ieav^ 

 late, expanding. Florets of th^ ray ten to 



summit 



