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narrow lanceolate, somewhat serrate in the mid- 

 dle, flowers m a multiflore compound corymb. 

 S \iir angiistjfoha, stem simple pedal leaves 

 linear lanceolate entire, flowers in a simple 



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the Crttoma of Gacrtner and others, yet thev 

 are perhaps nothing else but various a/es of the 

 plant? but smce they have been mistaken for 

 species, they must be properly noticed 



2. K. altaica Raf. If the Sibirian plant is 

 distinct as probable, it may be distinguished by 

 fetem really pubescent, leaves triuncial alterne 

 i^ughdecurrent, lanceolate base not attenuated. 

 1 his IS Eup. alternifolium Arduin tab. 20, and 

 liinneus m first editions. 



3. K. dasypia Raf. eupatorioides Elliot, 

 fetem branched pubescent, leaves alternate, lan- 

 ceolate unequally serrate, glandular punctate, 

 triuncial, rough above, pubescent beneath; 

 flowers paniculate white, pappus white. Mea- 

 dows of Alabama and Georgia. 



4. K. glutinosa Elliot, glutinose pubescent 

 leaves lanceolate alterne sess. serrate laciniate' 

 upper entire; flowers corymbose panicled. Mea- 

 dows of Alabama, well described by Elliot, who 

 sent me a specimen. Stem bipedal, branched, 

 viscose glands mixt with hairs all over. 



5. K. elliptica Raf discovered 1823 descri- 

 bed 1833. Stem striate pubescent, branches 

 and leaves opposite, leaves sessile smooth,eIliptic 

 uncial, serrate in the middle, glandular beneath, 

 flowers whitish in lax multiflore corymbs, pap- 

 pus cinereous—Falls of the R. Cumberland, 3 

 feet high ; very handsome species. The K. «■/«- 

 bra of my monograph 1833 which I mistook for 

 the Imnean sp. is only a variety of this with 

 stem smooth, leaves subpetiolate, flowers less 

 iax. I found it in the Alleghany mts. on the 



