132 SXNGENESIA. -EQUALIS, 



flowered, scales naked, eiliptic-oblong, obtuse, appressed, 

 resimlerous, at length hoary. Hab In the Pine forests ot' 

 North and South Carolina. — About 2 feet high, every' 

 where very smooth. Radical leaves often very long as in 

 L. heterophyUa, cauUne numerous. Spike 6 to 12 inches 

 long. Flowers bracteate, very closely sessile and erect. 

 Scales oi the calix resiniterous, at length appearing whit- 

 isli and furfuraceous. Pappus about the length of the 

 seed, which is large and villous. Florets purple, inter- 

 nall} smooth. 



10. elegans. Stem villous; leaves linear and scabrous; 

 flowers pedunculate; calix about o-flowered, scales pu- 

 bescent, internal ones ligulate, coloured. 11. sphceroidea. 

 Calix about 20-floweied? 12. scarloaa. Calix about 20- 

 fiowered, sub^lobose. 



13. squarrosa. Pubescent and scabrous; leaves linear, 

 lower ones very long; pediuicies .ixillary, 1-flowered; calix 

 large, about 20-flowered, scales foiiaceuui, lanceolate- 

 ovate, mucronate, rigid and spreading; seginents of ;he 

 f.oets linear, internally villous. Hab. From Virgmia to 

 Florida. About 12 inches high, and few-fiowered. The 

 caliX unusually large, like that of the genus Carthanms. 

 Fiorecs of a bright violtt-purple, deeph' cleft, and with 

 the segments i.uernally villous, as in no other speCiCS of 

 the genus, except J^. ci/!mJrucea. S;yle very long and 

 deeply cleft, pubescent. Pappus plumose, purplish, about 

 20-ra}ed, rays more than iwice the length of tne pubes- 

 cent and subcylindric seed. 



§ II. Flo'ivers subio^^^nbose orfanti^iate; roots Jibro as. 



14. paucifora. Ph (.ieorgia. 15. paniciilata. Corymb 

 paniculate, coarctaie; stem and 5-flowered calix, some- 

 what viscidly pilose and scabrous; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 subacute, and nerved; stem simple. Hab. Fx'om Virgi- 

 nia tv> Florida. Flowers very small. 



16. odoratissima. Corymb paniculate, stem smooth, sim- 

 ple, and partly naked; leaves smooth, obtuse and glaucous> 

 radical ones ohlong-ovale, caulme amplexicaule; caliic 

 aboui 10-flowered. Ha3. From Virginia to Florida. {Va- 

 7u'la-f)lunt.J Leaves when dry exhaling the scent of Va- 

 nilla, which continues unimpaired for several years, of a 

 thick and opaque consisience, and distinctly nerved, those 

 ol the stem very obtuse, the upper ones minute. Calix 

 mostly consisting of a double series of obtuse glandular 

 scales. 



17. * corymbosa. Stem solitary, simple and hirsute; 

 leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, nearly smootii, upper 

 ones very short; corymb partly simple, about 20-riowered, 



