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ovate, acuminate. Flowers in heads. Petals chaffy. — "White. If. June 

 — Julv. Damp soils. Button Snake-root. 



2. E. Virginia 'm'm. (Lam.) Stan glabrous, fistular, branched, thick- 

 ened at the joint?. Leaves long, lanceolate, incisely serrate, tapering 

 at each extremity, with prominent midrib. Flowers in numerous heads. 

 Involucre long, subulate, sessile, whitish on the under surface. — White. 

 If, -luiie. Damp soils. 4 — 6 feet. 



3. E. aromat'icum, (Bald.) Stem branching toward the summit, 

 leafy, many from each root. Leaves pinnately parted, crowded on the 

 stem, bristly, with a silvery, cartilaginous margin. Flowers in numer- 

 ous heads, on long peduucles. Involucre 5 leaved ; leaves 3-cleft.— 

 White. If. Aug. — Xov. Pine-barrens. Florida. 



4. E. vikga'tim, (Lam.) Stem erect or decumbent, glabrous, fistular. 

 Leaves spatulate, ovate, membranaceous ; cauline ones on short peti- 

 oles, toothed or sharply serrate. Involucre 6 — 8 leaves, longer than 

 the head ; chaff bicuspidate. Flowers in heads, in the angles of the 

 branches near the summit. — Pale blue. If. July — Sept. In pine- 

 barrens. 1 — 3 feet. 



5. E. Baldwin'u, (Spreng.) Stem prostrate, often creeping, branch- 

 ing, filiform. Leaves oval or ovate, petiolate, entire or somewhat lobed, 

 remotely toothed; upper ones usually sessile, 3-cleft, with narrow, en- 

 tire, lateral segments ; middle segment entire or 2 — 3-toothed. Flow- 

 ers in small heads, on axillary peduncles, with the involucre shorter 

 than the heads. — White. If. June — July. Southern Geo. 



Tribe III.— AMMLX'EJE. 



Fruit compressed laterally, with primary ribs only. Umbels 

 compound. 



Gencs V.— HELOSCIA'DIUM. Koch. 5—2. 

 (From the Greek hdos, a marsh, and skiadion, an umbel.) 



Calyx with an obsolete or 5-toothed margin. Petals ovate, 

 entire. Carpels with 5 prominent ribs. Fruit compressed lat- 

 erally, ovate-oblong. Herbaceous plants, with compound or 

 many-parted leaves. 



1. H. nodiflo'rum, (Koch.) (Sium nodiflorum of Ell.) Stem pro- 

 cumbent, striate. Leaves pinnate; segments oblong, serrate; upper 

 ones sometimes ternate, with acute leaflets. Flowers in umbels, oppo- 

 site the leaves, generally destitute of an involucre, sessile or on short 

 peduncles. Petals expanding, acuminate. — White. 0. April — June. 

 About Charleston. In wet places. 2 feet. 



2. H. leptopiiyl'lum, (D. C.) Stem glabrous, slender, erect or diffuse. 



- ternate, with linear segments ; cauline ones ses-ile or nearly so. 

 Umbels opposite the leaves, s-ubsessile. Involucre none. Fruit small, 

 glabrou-s. — White. June — July. Lou. 6 — 24 inches. 



Genus VI.— DISCOPLEU'RA. D. C. 5—2. Ammi, E1L 

 (From the Greek diskoa, a disk, and pleura, a rib.) 



Calyx with subulate teeth, persistent. Petals ovate, entire, 



