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SYNGENESIA JEQU4L1S. 
Stem slender, about 2 feet high. Leaves on long petioles, the lower 
ones triangular, with an acuminated point, and the angles at base very 
acute, the upper ones ovate lanceolate, all denticulate, glabrous, and slight- 
ly glaucous underneath. Floivers in small axillary racemes, in my spe- 
cimen not exceeding 3 heads in each raceme, which appear to have been 
nodding. Involucrum composed of 5 equal linear leaves, glabrous, mem- 
branaceous at the margins, and closely protected at base by small ovate 
imbricate scales. Corolla purple ? Seeds glabrous, slightly angled and 
striate. Pappus hairy. 
Collected on the Saluda Mountains by Dr. Macbride. 
Flowers September. 
4. .VlRGATA. Mich. 
P. glabra ; caule 
simplicissimo ; foliis 
omnibus runcinato-sin- 
uatis; racemulis subse 
cundis ; floribus pen- 
dulis ; involucris 8-fi- 
dis, 10-floris. 
Glabrous; stem sim- 
ple; leaves all runcin- 
ate and sinuate ; ra- 
cemes generally se- 
cund; flowers pendu- 
lous ; involucrum 8- 
parted, 1 0-flowered. 
Mich. 2. p. 83. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1533. Pursh 2. p. 498. 
Root perennial, somewhat tuberous. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, 
2 — 4 feet high, very glabrous. Leaves sessile, semiamplexicaule, deeply 
sinuate, with the segments on the lower leaves frequently runcinate, and 
sparingly toothed, the upper leaves narrow, lanceolate. Flowers in a long 
terminal raceme, composed generally of small branches, bearing commonly 
3 — 4 flowers. Interior leaflets of the Involucrum 8, oblong, obtuse and 
fringed at the summit; florets 10 — 12 in each involucrum. Corolla ligu- 
late, pale purple. Seeds cylindric, striate, crowned with a scabrous pap- 
pus. 
Grows in damp pine barrens. 
Flowers October. 
5. Simplex. Pursh. 
P. caule simplicissi- 
mo; foliis superioribus 
lineari laneeolatis, in- 
tegerrimis, radicalibus 
lancedtstis, sinuatis ; 
racemo terminali, sim- 
Stem simple; upper 
leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, entire, those of 
the root lanceolate, si- 
nuate ; raceme termi- 
nal, simple ; flowers 
