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SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 



lulosum. Semina in I in the cells. 



cellulis. Pappus pa 



leis 10. erectis, acutis. 



the 



pappus 



447 



Chaff of 

 10, erect, 



acute. 



1. Uniflora. 



B. 



caule 



Nutt. 

 unifloro 



simpli 



ici 



pubescente^ 



Stem one-flowered 



9 



I 



narrow 



pubescent; 



obo- 



simple, 



leaves 



vate, entire; pappus as 



long as the seed. 



} 



foliis anguste obovatis, 

 integerrimisj pappo 

 semen aequante. 



Nutt. 2. p. 175. 



Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, slightly angled. Leaves ob- 

 ovate, with an oblong tapering base, dotted, somewhat succulent when young, 

 pubescent. Involucrum many leaved, leaflets ovate, acuminate, the interior 

 raucronate, squarrose. Florets of the ray numerous, (nearly thirty,) yellow, 

 three-toothed at the summit, externally pubescent; of the disk verj' numer- 



ous, tubular, yellow, covered near the summit with a glandular pubescence. 

 Stamens about as long as the florets of the disk. 

 the stamens. 



Style scarcely longer than 



-Jeerf nearly cylindrical, a little enlarged towards the summit, 

 hairy. Pajjpus as long as the seed, if not longer. Scales membranaceous, 

 erect, generally acute, (surrounded at base by a white, fimbriate, exterior 

 pappus?) Receptacle convex, deeply honey-comb, the cells somewhat 

 hexangular, with a denticulate summit, and sufficiently deep to enclose the 

 seod and its pappus. 



Grows in damp soils and along the margins of swamps in the middle ' 

 country of Carolina and Georgia. 

 Flowers July — September. 



2. MULTIFLORA, 



Nutt. 



B? 



caule 



ramoso 



Stem 



niultifloro^ glaberrimo; 



foliis linearibus; invo- I brous 



many 



branching, 



gla 



flowered 

 leaves linear; 



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lucri foliolis acumina- leaves of the involu- 



fis; pappo brevi, cupu 

 lato. 



crum acuminate; pap 

 pus short, cup-shaped. 



Nutt. 2, p. 170. 



