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228. MYCTANTHES (mixed flowers) Raf. 

 anomalous or peloric Genus occasionally form- 

 ed by some Asters and Solidagos Difference, 

 flowers often concrete or coalescent, with ligu- 

 les and floscules intermixt, perianthe imbri- 

 cate unequal foliaceous. I have noticed seve- 

 ral types. Is it a diseased state ? but the 

 plants were healthy. 



225. MYCTANTHES PUNICEA R. like Aster 

 puniceus, but stem simple, 2-3flore, leaves lan- 

 ceolate observed near Philadelphia, flowers 

 terminal purplish. 



230. MYCTANTHES LATIFOLIA R. stem sim- 

 ple uniflore, leaves sessile elliptic acuminate 

 subserrate, flower terminal sessile purplish 

 collected in the Alleghany mts. bipedal. 



231. MVCTANTHES AX ILL AR is R. similar to 

 Solidago nemorosa, but flowers axillary and 

 solitary, yellow mts. Alleghany, pedal. 



233." ALISETA (Plantain) Raf. Radiate 

 Genus near to Arnica Perianthe in double 

 series, each of ten spreading folioles. Phoran- 

 the flat alveolate, chaffs carinate long acute. 

 Floscules tubulose 5fid sterile. Ligules or rays 

 about 20 fertile tridentate narrow. Seeds li- 

 near, pappus simple deciduons. Habit of Ar- 

 nica, scapose, uniflore But very different 

 Genus by calix, chaffs, sterile florets &c. It is 

 nearer to the next Genus Peritris in some re- 

 spects. Single type. 



233. ALISETA PLANTAGINEA R. radical leaves 

 lanceolate or cuneate entire hirsute acute, 

 scape terete smooth, with a single subulate 

 scale, uniflore. folioles of perianthe ovate lan- 

 ceolate smooth Sent me from Florida, prob- 

 ably biennial, root short with many fibres, leaves 

 2 or 3 inches long, scape 6 inches, flower large 

 2 inches, rays yellow, disk fuscate. 



