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Root perennial, creeping. Stem herbaceous, three to six (eet htjih, pur- 

 ple, smooth, slightly scabrous near the summit. Lower leaves opposite', the 

 upper ahernate, all ovate-lanceolate, very acute, with glandular serratures, 

 pubescent and somewhat glaucous underneath. Petioles short, fringed. 

 Flowers few, in a terminal panicle. Invblucrum imbricate, leaves (twentj'i 

 three to twenty-seven) oblong, lanceolate, hairy, fringed. Florets of the 

 ray about ten, lanceolate, hairy, yellbvv, about an inqh long; of the disR 

 numerous, yellowish. Stamens and styles scarcely as long as the florets of 

 the '^isk. Seeds compressed. Pappus acuminate, hairy. Chaff of the 

 receptacle concave, three-cleft at the summit, hairy near the summit and 

 along the keel. . 



This plant agrees in many respects with the 11. Mollis as described by 

 Pursh, but it certainly is not the H. Tomentosus of Michaux. A variety 

 in the low country with the leaves pubescent and only slightly glaucous, I 

 have always considered as the H. Lsevis of Walter, but Walter's name 

 could scarcely be retained to a plant which in reality has nothing smooth 

 about it but the lower part of the stem. 

 , Grows in dry, moderately fertile soils. '' 



Flowers July — August. 



8. HispiDULus. E. 



Fi 



H. caule scabro; fo- J Stem scabrous; leaves 

 liis oppositis, sessili- opposite, sessile, ovate- 

 bus, ovato-lanceolatis, I lanceolate, tapering lo- 

 superne attenuatis, ser- I wards the summit, ser- 

 rulatis, supra scabris, rulate, scabrous on the 

 subtuspalHdioribuSjhis- upper surface, paler 

 pidulis; involucri squa- underneath and slight- 

 rais ovato-lanceolatis, ly hispid; scales of the 

 ciliatis; paleis tridenta- involucrum ovate-Ian- 

 tis. E. I ceolate, ciliate; chaff 



3-toothed. 



Root perennial. Stem erect, scabrous, three to four feet high. Leaves 

 Jong, narrow, tapering to their summits, triplinerved, very obscurely serru- 

 lated. Floicers few, terminal. Peduncles opposite, the upper pair gene- 

 rally longer than the stem. Leaves of the involucrum ovate-lanceolate, as 

 long as the disk, scabrous, ciliate. Florets of the ray eight to ten, about an 

 inch long, yellow; of the disk numerous. Pappus subulate, pubescent. 

 Uiaffof the receptacle nearly as long as the florets of the (Jisk, tiiree-tooth- 

 " , hany along the back and summits. 



Grows irt the pine barrens near Louisville, Georgia. Mr. Jackson. 



■r lowers September—October. = 



