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SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA; 



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pubescent. Receptacle globose, chaff ovate-lanceolate, slightly acuminate 



fi-in^cd. • t • u 



Grows, variety a in the upper country of Carolina and Georgia; 6 in the 



low country of Carolina. 

 Flowers August — October. 



HELIANTHUS. Gen. Pl. 1322. 



Receptaculum pale 



aceum, planu 

 pus diphylliis, 

 Involua^mn 



turn 

 foliaceum 



cad 



Pap 



Receptacle cliaffy, 



flat. Pappus 2-leaved, 



caducous. Involucrum 



imbrica- I imbricate, generally 



subsquarrosum, squarrose, leafy. 



* Florihus 

 atro purpureis, 



1. Atrorubens. 



disci 



"^ Florets of the disk 

 dark purple* 



H. 



hispidus; caule 1 Hispid; stem naked 



supernenudiusculolaxe I towards the 



summit 



5 



paniculato; foliis spa- loosely 



paniculate; 



thulatisjobiongo-ovatis, leaves spathulate, ob 



crenatis, tripliuervibus, long ovate, 



supra scabris; involucri triplinerved, 



squarais ovato-lanceo- on the upper surface; 



latis, longitudine disci, scales of the involucrum 



crenate, 

 scabrous 



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as 



ovate-lanceolate 

 long as the disk. 



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Sp. pi. 3. p. 2254. Walt. p. 2l6. Mich. 2- p. 140. Pursh, 2. p* 570- 

 Nutt. 2. p. 177- 



Rx>ot perennial. Stem herbaceous, three to four feet high, rauricate, wi 

 a it^ long branches. Leaves opposite, spathulate, but tapering nt base, 

 ovate, acute, toothed, scabrous on the upper surface, hairy and rather so 

 underneath, tripHnerved, paler underneathj those near the base crowa^ 

 and nearly a foot long, the upper ones small, sessile, and almost connate. 

 Flowers in a loose terminal panicle, hivolucrvm many leaved, (twenty 

 twenty-four,) imbricate, leaves slightly obovate, ciliate, erect. Flo^^^^^ ^ 



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