LXXXV. 
PRENANTHES SUAVIS. 
Sweet-smelling Prenanthes. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Cichoracee, Juss. Gen. p. 168. 
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Sect, 11. Receptaculum nudum. Pericarpia papposa. 
Calyx serie plus minussimplici 5-8-phyllus, longus, basi bracteis parvis imbricatus, 5-1 2-flosculosus, 
Pericarpia angusta, teretiuscula apice truncato, striata. Pappus sessilis, longus, pilis exquisite den- 
ticulatis. Receptaculum scrobiculatum. Folia Sonchorum, inferiora nunc subpalmata. Flores abt 
purpureive: Paniculis scepius amplis. Essentia generis, qué a Chondrilla discrepat, est wm pappe i, 
non in simplici serie aut numero flosculorum. 
P. foliis inferioribus subpalmatis, lobis sinuato-dentatis, raré hirsutis : panicula lax subcorymbosa : 
floribus cernuis: calycibus 9-1 1-flosculosis, foliolis apice incurvis ciliatisque. . 
P. alba. Mich. Fl. Boreali-Am. v. 2. p. 83. P. alba. Walt, Fl. Car. p. 195. P. alba. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 
2. p. 1121. P. folioscabro, &c. Clayt.in Gron. Fl. Virg. p- 113. auctoritate ejus speciminis. P, flos- 
culis plurimis, &c. Linn. Hort. Cliff. p. 383. 
Sponte nascentem in Virginia, legit J. CLAYTON: in South Carolina, legit J. WattTER. 
Floret Augusto, Septembri. 
nch Academy for 
e genus Prenanthes was established by VAILLANT in the Memoirs of the Fre 
formed his cha- 
the year 1721. Liwwe, as appears both in the Pralectiones and Genera Plantarum, 
racter principally from our indigenous plant, the Sonchus levis luciniatus muralis, dc. of the older bo- _ 
nee F and to di : vn CA which he had then never seen, he assigned toit 
o join this plant now figured, and some others, 
. . 
to Prenanthes. LAMARCK 
vi hondrilld 
. fore as have 
not so wedge-shaped, compressed and ribbed, as 1n Chondrilla. Such ofmy — me ae 
taken their ideas of Prenanthes from Linne’s Muralis, will not _ re ea age ey 
that important part is erroneously represen sessile, no mention W 
description ; but in Flora Britannica Dr. Smit says “ Pappus pt 
Gxrtner’s figure only before the generic character, which is again Co} 
ith : dali vile ; feet hi r the bottom often as 
Root tuberous with numerous fibres. Stem dull purple, at Me from the upper axils, 
oe aouk 
the margin of the lamina more or less decurrent below Be od 
the upper ones gradually more simple oblong and_ shortly petiolated. 
like those of the Persian Cyclamen. Panicle spreading, its lowe 
tymbose and divaricated. Pedicels from 5 to 2 inches long, 
ater purple th ) 11-9, 3 quel oe 
att : A ESS, SSG Ay liated, elsewhere smooth, nearly 1 Agee ae 
spreading at the top where the edge 1s whitish = ies . es q ards 0 ly linear, smooth, stri- ee 
