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NORTH AMERICAN 
It for our N. Am. sp. increased to 6, while our 
botanists know only 2 or 3, and blend half a 
dozen with E . erecta of South America, quite 
different from ours. These plants are estival 
or autumnal, all annual, with a similar habit of 
opposite sessile leaves, flowers often axillary 
and geminate. All have the perianthe biserial, 
many narrow rays and the seeds naked ; with 
a bristly phoranthe, whereby they differ from 
Beilis , and the habit is totally unlike ; but some 
sp. are stated to have besides a small bristly 
pappus, such are E. procumbens of Elliot and 
my JE. ciliata fl. JLud. which therefore approx- 
imate to Verhesina and G aiinsoga, and are 
perhaps two peculiar Genera Paleisia and Ca- 
cotanis. As to E. brachypoda Mx. which 
was Amelias carolinianus Walter, with pen- 
tandrous florets, no one else has seen it since, not 
even Elliot, and it will perhaps be found also a 
peculiar Genus or a Paleista. 
300. Eclipta longifolxa Raf. stem erect 
slender weak trichotome nearly smooth, leaves 
sessile long lanceolate, acute at both ends, uni- 
nerve remotely serrate, nearly smooth, flowers 
erect axillary and terminal 2 or 3 together, pe- 
duncles unequal hispid, sepals of perianthe un- 
equal oval or lanceolate acute citiolatc — a very 
distinct sp. from E. erecta mistaken for it by 
nearly all the botanists, growing from Florida 
to New Jersey near streams, lately found by 
me near Philadelphia at the mouth of the 
Schuylkill, Stem 2 or 3 feet high, leaves re- 
mote 4 to 8 inches long, hardly one broad, 
flowers whitish autumnal, seeds brown 4gone, 
obovate. I add for contrast the others E . 
erecta ! 
301. Eclipta dubia Raf. E. erecta Pursh, 
