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AND GENERA OF PLANTS. 385 
ered; involucrum shorter than the os dark brown disk; 
three-toothed; pappus lanceolate, brown and awned, abou re: e- 
of the discal floret. Bi | 
Has. The plains of Red | Rix er, Arkansa. A very elegant species, with deep orange or dark 
purple brown rays, pubescent e ext erally. Stem three or four feet high, ding and somewhat 
naked at the summit, pedicels foil and. grooved, involucrum a little abel. 
sie 
Helenium *micranthum; nearl rly Betncotl: radical leaves narrow, linear-lanceo- 
late, entire; lower leaves oblong clincealat sparingly denticulate, decurrent, 
upper ones lanceolate, entire; stem slender, dichotomous; branchlets one to 
two-flowered, peduncles moderate; involucrum hirsute, shorter than the sphe- 
rical, brown disk; pappus about a third the —_ of the discal floret, hyaline, 
apiculate; rays three-cleft, flat. 
Has. South Carolina. Allied to H. nudi iflorum, but the aati about half the size, and the 
rays shorter, as wéll as the pappu which is white, smaller and not awned. In H. a eee 
the radical leaves are bipimata ol 4 
a Helenium Mexicanum. ( H. B. and Koes ) 
Has. Louisiana. (‘Teinturier.) 
Division 11a ebay. as a 
‘sma soll paler half octane: membra 
ceptacle 
crum subaep ulate, about Prat saan. f the sepals 
a. 
ided rays; (rays filiform, 
ranched, aromatic, ee 
from en to twen’ 
hirsute and scabrousleaved plant. are smooth. Leaves alter a 
row, crowded, linear, area Flowers lataggeped terminal, fastigia 
vil.—4 Ww % 
