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plicissimo; floribus nu- nodding ; involucrum 
tantibus; involucris sub generally 8-flowered. 
8-floris. 
Pursh 2. p. 498. 
Stem about 2 feet high. Flowers purple. Pursh. 
Is this really a distinct species, or is it a young plant of the P. virgata? 
Collected in Georgia by Mr. Enslen. 
Flowers July — August? 
©. Crepidinea. 
P. foliis lato lance- 
olatis, in petiolum at- 
tenuates, inaequaliter 
angulato dentatis; pan- 
icula fasciculis termi- 
nalibus, paucifloris.nu- 
tantibus ; involucris 
hirsutis, TO — 12 fidis, 
sub 20-floris. 
Mich. 2. p. 84. Pursh 2. p. 499 
Leaves lanceolate, 
wide, attenuated at 
base, unequally tooth- 
ed and angled ; pani- 
cle composed of small 
terminal nodding clus- 
ters; involucrum hairy, 
10 — 12 cleft, general- 
ly 20 flowered. 
Among the Plants collected by Dr. Macbride on the Saluda mountains 
was one, which though destitute of its lower leaves, appeared in other re- 
spects to agree very well with the P. Crepidinea of Mich. 
Stem 4 — 6 feet high, branching towards the summit. Upper leaves 
sessile, lanceolate, denticulate, scabrous and somewhat pubescent. Flow - 
ers in terminal clusters, nodding. Involucrum 8 — 10 leaved, nearly gla- 
brous, surrounded at base, as usual in this genus, with small imbricate 
scales. Florets numerous, Pappus sessile, scabrous. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina. 
Flowers September. 
7. Alba. 
P. foliis radicalibus 
angulato-hastatis, den- 
tatis, sublobatis, cauli- 
nis subrotundo-ovatis, j 
dentatis, petiolatis j 
Leaves of the root 
angled, hastate, tooth- 
ed, and slightly lobed, 
of the stem ovate 
nearly round, toothed 
