SYNGENESJA FRUSTRANEA. 413 



Nutt. 2. p. 181. 



Stem three to four feet high, nearly terete but conspicuously win^red, 

 slightly scabrous. Leaves lanceolate, acute, serrate, slightly scabrous, vil- 

 lous underneath, v^ry slightly canescent, three to five inches long, two to 

 threew.de. Flowers m a small terminal corymb. Scales of the involu- 

 crum ovate and oval lanceolate, nearly equal, hispid, arranged in two series. 

 t lorets of the ray ten to twelve, narrow lanceolate, one and a half to two 

 inches long, bright yellow; of the disk numerous, yellowish. Seeds com- 

 pressed, very slightly winged, hairy, crowned with two persistent awns 

 aboat one third of their own length. Receptacle rather convex, chaffy, the 

 chaft lanceolate, concave, rather longer than the body of the seeds. 



Grows near Louisville, Georgia. Mr. Jackson. 

 Flowers — 



2. Squarrosa. Nutt. 



i 



A? caule erecto, ala- I Stem erect, winged, 

 to, superne pubescente; pubescent towards the 

 foliis lanceolatis, ser- summit; leaves lanceo- 

 ratis, scabris; panicula late, serrate, scabrous; 

 laxa, foliosa; involucro panicle Joose, leafy; 

 patente; receptaculo involucrum expaudiiicr- 

 subgloboso. j receptacle nearly glo- 



, bose. 



Nutt. 2. p. 181. ' 



Coreopsis Alternifolla, Sp. pi. 3. p. 2257. 



Verbesina Coreopsis, Mich. 2. p. 134. Pursb, 2. p. 565. 



a Flava. 



P^^nt three to seven feet fiigh, erect, winged, glabrous when old. Leaves 

 oroad lanceolate, acute, serrate, scabrdus, tapering at base to a short petiole. 

 t towers m a terminal panicle. Scales of m involucrum linear-lanceolate, 

 expanchng, finally reflexed, arranged in one? series. Florets of the ray 



IIZ I' L ^^""ly, *" '""^^ ^""''S, linear-lanceolate, expanding or reflexed, 

 ye low; of the disk numerous. Seed compressed, slightly winged, a little 



lance' rr*""^? '"J *"'*' ^^'^'^^^''^ ^'"^^' ^haff of the receptacle ovate- 



nan 



* Alba. 



Lpf !,?*' ^""^^^^ f "'^ P^"^^^^ ^^'■y ^'™'^*'' to those of tlip preceding variety, 

 f «»es narrow lanceolate, verv scabrous nn,l A^tt^ «» »i.« ..r,.w»r crf.^l 



disk P T '"^'^'"*^'^'^™ ao^ut eight,- haear-Ianceolate, shorter than the 



nonp. r»k I ^'' ''^^®^*'^^ arranged in a single series. Florets of the ray 



»e, 01 the disk numerous, white, glabrous. Seeds obovate, compressed, 



