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one. Florets five to eight. Pappus more. Seed smooth 

 and black. The genus has been recently formed by sprcn- 

 gel, and founded on Brasihan species- The present plant 

 appears to be alhed to Chrysocoma. 



Boltonia asteroides. WillcL 3. p. 2162. 

 Echpta procumbens. Mich. 2. p, 129. 

 Verbesina virginica. Willd. 3. p. 2222. " 

 Tetragonotheca hehanthoides. Willd^ 3. p. 2116. 

 Buphthalmum frutescens. Willd. 3. p. 2229- 



SYNGENESIA.— Frustrax£.a, 



Galardia bicolor. Willd. 3. p. 2245. 



Balduina multiflora. NuttaWa Gen- 2. p. 176. 



Heliantlius (rachehflorus. Willd. 3. p. 2241. 



Rudbeckia hirta. Willd. 



Biclens chrysanthemoides. Willd. 3. p. 1717. 



Actuiomeris * paucijlora^ foliis oblongis serrulati.s decur- 

 rentibus nudis paucifloris. 



Observations. — Stem apparently simple: Leaves op- 

 posite oblong or oblong orate- Peduncle few-flowered. 



long and naked, (in my specimen, two-flowered- Caiix 

 composed of about a simple series of lanceolate leaves. 

 Seeds winged on the margin, shortly two-horned. (Flowers 

 »iot seen.) 



SYNGENESIA.— Necessaria. 



Silphium ^subacaUle, scabriusculum : caule breyissimo, 

 pedunculis longissimis, foliis oblongis subsinuata-pinnatifi- 

 dis dentatis, calycinis foliolis dilatatis rhomboideis. 



Observations. — A species very remarkable foritsdimm- 

 utive stature, the stem being often altogether wanting, and 

 at most but two or three inches high. Leaves sessile, al- 

 ternate, two or three inches long, with the margin alter- 

 nately sinuated so as almost exactly to resemble the leaves 



of some species of Senecio. Peduncle nearly a span long. 



Flowers, as usual, yellow. The seeds also conformable 

 villi the genus. 



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