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128 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Var. gracilis (Pursh) Britt. in Britton & Brown, Ill. КІ. 
3:481. 1898; Britton, Manual 1028. 1901, and ed. 2, 1905; 
Greenm. Monogr. Senecio, I. Teil, 23. 1901, in Emgl. Dot. 
Jahrb. 32:19. 1902, and in Gray, Manual, ed. 7, 854. 1908; 
Porter, Fl. Penn. 339. 1903. 
S. gracilis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:529. 1814, and ed. 2, 1816; 
DC. Prodr. 6:432. 1837; Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 1303. 
1903, and ed. 2, 1913. 
Stems slender; basal leaves relatively small, those of the 
offshoots, as well as the lower stem-leaves, rotund-ovate to 
oblong-ovate, 1 to 2 em. long and nearly to quite as broad. In 
all other essential eharaeters like the species into whieh it 
direetly passes. 
Distribution: occurring with the species, but especially in 
moist open places. 
Specimens examined : 
Ontario: Squirrel Island, 10 June, 1904, Dodge 14, 2974 
(U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
New Jersey: Point Pleasant, Williamson (C. S. William- 
son Herb.) ; meadows, ete., New Egypt, 14 May, 1906, Grove 
315 (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.) ; Spray, de Chalmot (U. 8. 
Nat. Herb.); Swedesboro, 15 Мау, 1892, Lippincott (Phil. 
Acad. Nat. Sei, Herb.). 
Pennsylvania: Wayne, 2 May, 1908, Bartram (Phil. Acad. 
Nat. Sei. Herb.); Lehigh Co., Pretz 345, 4398, 3272, 6483, 
6457 (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei. Herb.); Bucks Co., coll. of 1860, 
Krout (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.); Nockamixon, coll. of 
1893, Crawford (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei. Herb.) ; near Quaker- 
town, 9 May, 1899, Fretz (Phil. Aead. Nat. Sci. Herb.) ; Rock 
Hill, 31 May, 1903, MacElwee (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.) ; 
Tohickon Creek near Doylestown, 30 May, 1902, Brown (Phil. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.); meadows along Wissahickon Creek, 
Fort Washington, 7 May, 1909, Long (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Herb.) ; near Ardmore, 15 Мау, 1909, Eckfeldt (Phil. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Herb.); near Tredyffrin, 6 May, 1906, Bartram 
(Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.) ; Chester Heights, 9 May, 1909, 
Pennell 2030 (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.) ; Dillerville Swamp, 
