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oTS. STARREA. TVilldenow. 



Calix imbricated. Receptacle hirsute. Pap- 

 pus simple, sessile, scabious. 



Herbaceous; leaves entire or pseudopinnate; flowers co- 

 rymbobc. ^ 



Species. 1. S.? pinnata. Subtomentose; stem erect and 

 corymbosely branched; leaves partly pseudopinnate, ulti- 

 mate segments minute and subulate; receptacle subpale- 

 aceous. Amellus spinnlosus. Ph. 2. p. o64. Hab. On the 

 plains of the Missouri, common. P'lowering in August 

 and September. Obs. Stem 1 or 2 feet high, erect; the 

 "whole plant covered with a slender tomentum. Leaves 

 rigid, 1 and a hatf to 2 inches long, pseudopinnate, seg- 

 ments pinnatifid, ultimate divisions subulate, 1 to 2 lines 

 long. Uamuli l-flo.\ered, fastig'iate. Calix closely im- 

 bricafed, much shorter than the pappus, scales acute. 

 Ravft yellow, oblong, minutely bidentate. Anthers entire 

 at the base. Pappus somewhat ferruginous, rigid, sca- 

 brous, copious and unequal. Recej.tacle t'avose, subpa- 

 leaceous. palaea short and acuminate. — Nearly allied to 

 Clvysopsis, and scarcely of this genus? Certauily not 

 Amellus. Is it not allied to Erigeron pinnaiijidum, E. pin- 

 natiim, or to the pinnate leaved Asters ^ A. aurantiusy and 

 A. pinnatus. 



The only genuine species of Starkea is indigenous to 

 the mountains of Jamaica. 



574. ECLIPTA. L. 



Calix many-leaved, subequal. Discal florets 

 mostly 4-cleft. RarjSYevy narrow and numer- 

 ous. Receptacle setose. Pappus none. Seed 

 rugose, 2-edged, subquadrangular. 



Herbaceous annuals; stem weak and branched, and as 

 well as the leaves mostly strigose; leaves entire, opposite; 

 flowers obscure, vvhitish, peduncles axillar and terminal. 

 Allied to Bellis. Stems furnished with an elastic, filiform 

 centre, similar to that of Stellaria and Ahiiie. Sap black- 

 ening in the air. 



Species. 1. E. erecfa. Indigenous also to India and 

 Egypt. Its juice is said to dye wool of a black coljur. 2. 

 procumbeiis. 3. brachypoda. 



A tropical genus of 7 species, indigenous to India and 



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