454 SYNGENESU FRUSTRANEA. 



tifloro, involucro triple 1 numerous, ^ thrice a& 

 longiore. E. I Jong as the involucrum. 



J 



Root perennial. Plant two to three feet high; very much divided, a lit- 

 tle scabrous and clothed with long and somewhat hispid hair. Leaves alter- 

 nate, sessile, semiaraplexicaule and slightly cordate, villous near the base, 

 tomentose on both surfaces, the lowest probably spathulate. Flowers 

 termmal. Scales of the involucrum lanceolate, expanding, or deflected, 

 very hairy. Florets of the ray twelve to twenty, lanceolate, two-cleft at the 

 summit, yellow; of the disk very numerous, dark purple. Seeds four-an- 

 gled, the margin obsolete or slightly four-toothed. Receptacle convex, 

 chaff concave, linear-lanceolate, as long as the florets of the disk, externally 

 tomentose near the sumraitj among the exterior rows of the chaff setaceous 

 bristles longer than the seed are also interposed. 



Grows in the western districts of Georgia. 



Flowers August — October. 



8. L^viGATA. Pursh. 



. undique glaber- I Everywhere smooth; 

 rima; fohis ovato-Ian- | leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 ceolatis, utrinque acu- late, acuminate at each 

 niinatis, triplinervibus, end, triplineryed, spa- 

 parce dentatis; involu- | ringly toothed; scales 

 cri stjuamis lanceolatis, I of the involucrum lan- 

 lon2;itudine radii. I ceolate, as long as the 



ray 



Pursh, 2. p. 574. Nutt, 2. p. 178 



Leaves sub-coriaceoas, very smooth and lucid, those of the root spatlm- 

 late ovate, obtuse, those of the stem not acuminate. Peduncles kw, long, 

 naked. Flowers fastigiate, disk oblong. Nutt. Florets of the ray pate 



yellow, short. Pursh. 



Grows in the pine barrens of Georgia. 



Flowers 



9. Discolor. 



II. ramis corymbo- 1 Branches corymb- 

 sis, unifloris, peduncu- ose, 1 -flowered, pedua- 

 lis nudis, elongatis; fo- | cles naked, long; leaves 



