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rounded at apex, these sharply serrate, below long-attenuate into a margined petiole : heads 

 4 lines long: involucral bracts oblong and broadly linear : akenes silky-pubeseent. — Prodr. 

 V. 339 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 191. .s'. petiolaris, Less, in Linn. vi. oOii ; Hook. &, Arn. 

 Bot. Beech. 145, in part. .S. spiciformis, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii, 202. Homojiajjpus ? sjialhulatus, 

 ^utt. Trans. Am. Phil. Sue. vii. :yj2 — .Monterey, California, first coll. by Uaiike, Chamisso, 

 Coulter. Xot " :Mc.-;ico," where, however, is the somewhat related .S. simplex, IIBK., recently 

 rediscovered liy Scljaft'iK-r. 



* * # # Ilcad-s small or middle-sized {i, 3, or rarely 4 lines long), not in a terminal corymbi- 

 form c\ me, but in paniculate or raceuiiform clusters, which when well developed aie collecfed 

 in a terminal and more or less naked ci>mpound panicle or set of panicles (a few species tend to 

 have axillary clusters, or the panicle leafy below) ; when the clusters are racemiform and s|)read- 

 ing they are apt to be secund: stems generally simple or branching only at summit. — {L'rectie 

 in part and Vnilaterahs, DC.) PAiSicuLATiE. 



-(— Confined to the sea-coast or the vicinity of brackish water, very smooth and glabrous, and 

 Avith lli-m and thiekish or even somewhat fleshy bright-green foliage; but occasional! \' varying 

 with some minute pubescence in and toward the inflorescence, 6ic. (S. JithospermifoUa is maui- 

 fesil_\' pubescent, but that species is not known as an indigenous plant) : leaves obscurely punc- 

 ticulate, entire, or some lower ones a little scrrale, with a prominent midrib, but inconspicuous 

 veins and veinlets in a fine reticulation; the lower leaves sometimes with one or two pairs of 

 low-latei-al or basal ribs or veins: inflorescence thyrsoidal, but the clusters sometimes racemiform 

 and even secund. — Jlaritiinai. 



++ Flowering rather early, commonly stout and middle-sized or tall: general inflorescence panic- 

 ulate or hardly strict, leafy at the base: upper leaves not notably unlike the louver ones, and 

 not appressed. 



S. confinis, Geay. Apparently pale green : leaves lanceolate and rather short (cauline 

 2 to 3 inches long), or the radical obovate : heads small (2 lines long), crowded in a dense 

 oblong panicle, not secund, on glabrous pedicels : rays small, not surpassing the disk-fiowers : 

 akenes cauesceutly pubescent. — Proc. Am. ^Vcad. xvii. 191. ^S'. sempervirens, Gra\', Bot. 

 Calif, i. 319, as to pi. coll. Palmer. — S. California; in San Diego Co., Palmer, Cleveland, 

 YuAt-jj. San Bernardino Co., at hot springs on the lower mountains, Parish. 

 S. sempervirens, L. Bright green, leafy to the top, 2 to S feet high : leaves lanceolate 

 or \ arying to linear and mostly acute or the lower ol)tuse, lowest often oblong and spatnlate, 

 of firm or rather fleshy te.xture : heads commonly large (4 or 5 lines long, or in slender forms 

 onl}' 3 lines long) and showy, numerous in short racemiform or corymbulose and somewhat 

 secund clusters collected in an open thyrsus, or when fewer loosely paniculate : flowers gohleu 

 yellow; rays 7 to 10, mostly large — Sjjee. ii. .S7S : Ait. Kew. iii. 214; IK'. Prodr. v. 335; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 211. 5. M' .r.riuia, L. 1. c. 879, & authors, f carnosa & JS'ijcelioracensis, 

 Mill. Diet. S. Icei-igala, Ait. Kew. 1. c. 215 ; Xutt. Gen. ii. 159. .S. Umonifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 

 249. .^'. .-l;o(»Y(, Hochst. in Seubert, Fl. .Vzor. 31. — Along and near the sea-coast and tidal 

 streams, Xcw Brunswick and Canada to Florida, in wet or dry soil. ^\.lso San Francisco 

 Ba\-, &c., on the Pacific. Inflorescence occasionally pubescent, and when away from salt 

 water not rarely the upper part of the stem also, and leaves duUer, so approaching the fol- 

 lowing culti\ated variety. (Jlex., Bernmda, ^\zores ) 



Var. viminea, Gkat, Proc. 1. c. 192. Cultivated form, with duUer-green loaves, which 

 have lost the somewhat fleshy-coriaceous texture : upper part of stem and the inflorescence 

 appresseil-]iul)erulent : racemiform clusters hardly developed, but the heads more scattered 



in a leafv panicle. S'. integerrima, Jlill. Diet. •?. viminea. Ait. Kew. 1. c. 215 ,- AViDd. Sjicc. 



iii. 2064. .S. inteqrifolia, Desf. Cat. 1S04, 103, & ed. 3, 402 ; DC. Prodr. 1. c, excl. syn. Xutt. 

 5. carinala, Schrad. in DC. 1. c. 337. — Common in European Botanic Gardens ; passes into 

 S. i,ithospekmif6lia, TTiUd. Enum. 891, and S. elAta, Pursh (Solauder, mss.), FL ii. 

 543). Taller, robust, larger-leaved, even the leaves somewhat puberulent. Unknown as in- 

 digenous, obviouslv .S'. sempervirens, var. viminea, more altered ; but so unlike the species that it 

 demands se|iarate mention. 



++ ++ Late-flowering, wholly glabrous, virgate; the upper portion of the stem beset with small 

 appressed leaves: heads (commonly 3 lines long) in a strict and narrow naked panicle. 



S. stricta, Ait. Stem simple, slender, very strict, 3 to 8 feet high : leaves all entire or the 

 lowest cauline and radical rarely a little serrate ; these oblong or spatnlate and very obtuse ; 

 cauline very numerous, approximate, small and becoming bract-like, appressed, from oblong 



