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C draciinculoUles. Ph. 2. p. 517- Obs. stem shrubby and 

 much branched, from 6 to 8 feet high. Leaves narrow 

 and numerous, about 2 or 3 inches long, only 1 or 2 lines 

 wide. Flowers numerous, in terminal, flattish clusters, of 

 a brilliant yellow^. Scales of the calix rigid, and obtusely 

 carinate. Style bifid and pubescent, exserted. Seed 

 villous. The scent of the whole plant strong and disa- 

 greeable somewhat like that of Rue. 



2. na;tseosa. Pallas. Herbaceous; leaves narrow, linear, 

 and as well as the calix subtomentose; corymb loose; ca- 

 lix 5-flowered. Hab. On the banks of the Missouri; rare. 



3. nudata. Herbaceous; every where smooth, radical 

 leaves spathulate-lanceolate, 3-nerved; cauiine scarcely 

 any, linear; stem nearly naked; corymb compound, fasti- 

 giate; calix oblon.^, 3 or 4-flvjwered. Hab. On the mar- 

 gins of swamps fi-om Virginia to Florida. 



4. * virgata. Herbaceous and every where smooth; leaves 

 all naiTOW and linear, stem virgately branched, branches 

 corymbiferous, fastigiate; calix oblong, 3 or 4-flowered, 

 scales glutinous and appressed. Hab. On the borders of 

 swamps in Ne\? Jersey, near the sea-coast. Obs. Nearly 

 allied to C. nudata^ but distinct, and. resembles more So- 

 lidago tenidfoUa with which it might easily be confounded. 

 The stem is about 18 inches high and branched nearly 

 from the base. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, about a line 

 wide, smooth and thickisli, nerveless, somewhat remote. 

 Calix and florets bright yeliow, S«ed villous; pappus un- 

 equal. 



A genus of about 22 species, principally indigenous to 

 the Gape of Good Hope, Nortii America, and Siberia; 

 there is also 1 species in Kurope, 1 in Syria indigenous to 

 Mount Horeb, and 2 to New Holland. 



545. CACALIA. L. 



Calix cylindric, oblong, the base only some- 

 what caliculate. Receptacle naked. Pappus pi- 

 Jose. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves often succulent, in 

 others flat; flowers in terminal corymbose panicles, pur- 

 ple, white, or ochroleucous. CaUx in 4 indigenous species 

 5-leaved, 5-flowered, and not caliculate; pappus very white, 

 scabrous and abundant, deciduous from the conneciing 

 torus. Seed smooth, producing 10 stride as in SeneciOj 

 from which genus C. suaveolens, vf\f.\i a many -flowered ca- 

 >ix, does not appear to be d)stinct. 



Sp£CIE5. I.e. atripUcifoIia. The receptacle in this 

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