SYNGENESIA iEQUALIS'. 
25? 
Root perennial. Stem 4—6 and 8 feet high, branching, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, deeply 3-lobed, almost hastate, the lateral segments an- 
gled near the base, the margin slightly and irregularly dentate, the under 
surface pale, if not slightly glaucous. Petioles 2 — 7 inches long. Flow « 
ers in axillary panicles. Involucrum cylindrical, composed of 5 strap- 
shaped leaves, protected at base by small imbricate scales. Florets gene- 
rally 5, ligulate, yellow. Seeds angular, striate. Pappus sessile, sca- 
brous. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina. Dr. Macbride. 
Flowers September. 
2. CoRDATA. 
P. foliis petiolatis, 
ovato lanceolatis, cor- 
datis, dentatis ciliatis 
que ; panicula laxa, 
racemiflora ; floribus 
nutantibus ; involucris 
6 — 8 floris. 
Leaves on petioles, 
ovate lanceolate, cor- 
date, toothed and fring- 
ed; panicle loose, with 
the flowers somewhat 
racemose; flowers nod- 
ding; involucrum 6 — • 
8‘flawered; 
Willd. hort. Berol. 25. Pursh 2. p. 498. 
Root perennial. Stem 4 — 6 feet high, generally glabrous. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, cordate and angled at base, irregularly angled toothed 
and fringed along the circumference ; upper leaves simply lanceolate. 
Flowers in long loose panicles. Interior leaves of the involucrum gene- 
rally 8, somewhat lanceolate, membranaceous along the margins, the ex- 
terior only minute, ovate scales. Florets ligulate, pale yellow. (Pursh.) 
Seeds striate, crowned with a scabrous pappus. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina. 
Flowers August — October. . ....... 
3. Deltoidea. E. 
§ 
P. caule simplici, 
glabro ; foliis deltoi- 
aeis, acuminatis, acute 
denticulatis, subtus 
subglaucis ; racemis 
axiilaribus,paucifloris; 
involucris 5-floris. 
Stem simple, gla- 
brous ; leaves deltoid, 
acuminate, acutely 
denticulate, slightly 
glaucous underneath ; 
racemes axillary, few 
flowered ; involucrum 
5-flowered. 
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