SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



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crowned with two scabrous bristles. Receptacle flat, chafTy. Scales ob- 

 lonij, obovate, somewhat acute, hairy, a little shorter than the florets. 



Orows in the middle country of Carolina and Georgia. 



Flowers August and September. 



2. SlIVUATA 



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V. foliis alternis, ses- I Leaves alternate 

 silibus, sinuatis, basi- 

 attenuatis; floribus co- 

 rymbosis, albis; invo- 

 lucris imbricatis. 



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V. Laciniata. Nutt. 2. p. 170. 



iile, sinuate, attenii 



at base; flowers ii 

 ymb$, white; invo- 

 rum imbricate. 



Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, erect, four to six feet high, pubescent, 

 stnate, and towards the base irregularly winged. The upper and lowest 

 teaves frequently spathulafe', ovate, acute and acuminate, the intermediate 

 deeply smuate, with the sinuses obtuse an4 the lobes generally acute all 

 scabrous on the upper surface, pubescent underneath. Involucfum about 

 ten-leaved, leaves pubescent, slightly obovate, scarcely half as long as the 

 disk. Florets of the ray three to five, white, oval, twice as long as the 

 ^sk; of the disk twelve to twenty, tubular, with the border five-cleft. Jn- 

 f/iers as long as the corolla, like those of the preceding species nearly black. 

 !>eeds cuneate, obovate, compressed, winged, crowned with two awns, the 

 awns and wings hairy. Receptacle small, chafly. Scales lanceolate, con- 

 cave, compressed, acute, pubescent, a little longer than the seeds. 



I sent specimens of this plant to Dr. Muhlenberg many years ago, under 

 the name of V. Siiiuataj as it still appears to mc the most appropriate name 

 1 have retained it. 



Grows on the sea islands in sandy soils, Eddings' Island, Hilton utad. 

 t lowers October and November. 



3. SlEGESBECKIA. Mlch. 



V. caule alato; foliis I Stem winged; leaves 



. - . - . . opposite, ovate-Ianceo- 



olatis, utrinque acumi- | late, acuminate at each 



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aqutely serrate 



oppositis, ovato-Iance 



natis, acute serratis; co- end 



rymbo brachiato 



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5 

 5 



miihs 



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corymb 



brachlate 



5 



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summitate irre- branches irregularly 



gulariter multiiioris. 



many flowered at the 



summit. 



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