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SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA 



Stem two to three feet high, angular, glabrous. Leaves broad, entire, 

 sessile, and connate by a small membrane, very glabrous, acute at each end 

 but not acuminate. Flowers small, the lower opposite, axillary, the upper 

 forming a dichotomous corymb. Exterior involucrum smaller than the in- 

 terior, leaves lanceolate, glabrous. Florets of the ray about eight, entire, 

 yellow; of the disk not very numerous. Seed compressed, cuneate, slightly 

 bidentate and margined. 



Collected near the junction of the Broad and Saluda rivers by Mr. Oem- 

 ler. x 



Flowers July — August. 



6. Rosea. 



Nutt. 



C. parva, glaberri 



ma; caule simplici; fo- stem 



Small, very glabrous; 



simple; 



leaves 

 heads 



liis linearibus, integer- linear, entire; 



capitulis axilla- | axillary and terminal, 



rimis; 



ribus terminalibiisqne, | on 



Ion 



long 



peduncles; 



e 



pedunculatis; j seeds entire, naked. 



se minibus integris, nu 

 dis. 



Nutt. 2. p. 179, 



— r 



Root perennial. Stem about twelve inches high, smooth, sometimes 

 branching. Leaves about two inches long, opposite, connate, and sparingly 

 ciliate at base, the axils producing small leaves or abortive branchlets- 

 Flowers few, small, on peduncles about three inches long. Exterior inw 

 lucrum very small, interior eight-lea ved. Florets of the ray about eight, 

 pale red, obsoletely three-toothed; of the disk not numerous, somewhat saf- 

 fron coloured. Seeds entire, not emarginated, naked. Nutt. 



Grows in damp pine barrens and grassy swamps, New-Jersey to Georgia. 



Nutt. 



August 



^^ Foliis oppositis, I ** Leaves opposite, 



dwisis. 



divided. 



7. AURICULATA. 



C. pubescens; foliis | Pubescent; leaves 



subsessiIibus,ovali-lan- nearly 



s 



essile 



oval 



ceolatis, iutegerrlmis, lanceolate, entire, the 



