it in the low country of Carolina. 

 Flowers July — October. 



SYNOENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 



and woods, Canada to Carolina, Pl 



431 



I have not seen 



3. PiLOSA. 



B. floribus discoide 



Flowers discoid; ex- 



ucrum as 



■ 



V. 



is; involucro exteriore I terior invo 

 longitudine interioris; long as the interior 

 foliis inferioribus pin- lower leaves pinnate 

 natis, superioribus ter- I the upper ternate, leaf 

 natis, foliolis oblongis, Jets oblong, the termi- 

 terrainali lanceolato, nal one lanceolate, 

 reliquis dupio longiore. twice as long as the 



rest 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1720. 

 Root annual. St( 



566. Nutt. 2. p. 179. 



branching 



Leaves 



mr 



ovate-lanceolate, oblong, dentate, somewhat hairy, the lower sometimes 



doubly pmnate* Flowers^ opposite and terminal on long peduncles. Ex- 



r, ^ .. j^^^ F/orefe of the ray 



involucrum 



0; of the disk rather numerous, yellowish. Seeds oblon^^ , „- 



ati ng in two or three awns retrorsely aculeate. 



The specimens I have seen under this name do not accord exactly witli 

 the figure of Dillenius. Hort. Elth. t. 53. f. 51. 



Grows a common weed in old fields. Pursh. 



Flowers July — October. 



X 



4. Frondosa, 



^ B. floribus discoide- 

 is; involucro exteriore 



longiore. 



flore multo 



Flowers discoid; ex- 

 terior involucrum much 



foliolis 

 folii 



basi 



than the flower 

 ciliatis; I leaflets fringed at base 



us intenonbus pm- lower leaves pinnate. 



»atis, superioiibus tei 



I 



th 



upper ternate, Ian 



^^tis, lanceolatis, ser- ceolate, serrate. 



ratis. 



^Sp. pl.3. p.1718. 



Walt, p. 201. Mich. 2. p. 136. 



n. 1 



Pursh 



