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summis Ianceolatis; 
panicula laxa, fascicu- 
Iis terminalibus nutan- 
tibus, calycibus 8 fidis 
8 — 10 floris. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1536. Walt. p. 193. 
and petiolate, the up- 
per ones lanceolate ; 
panicle loose ; clusters 
terminal, nodding; in- 
volucrum 8-cleft, 9 — 
10 flowered. 
Mich. 2. p. 83. Pursh 2. p. 499- 
Root perennial, somewhat tuberous. Stem herbaceous, 2 ieet high, 
much divided, slightly angled and pubescent. Lower leaves hastate, lob- 
ed and irregularly sinuate and dentate. Lobes obtuse or acute; the upper 
leaves spathulate, obovate, toothed and angled. Flowers in loose panicles 
composed of small terminal clusters. Involucrum cylindrical, 8 leaved ; 
leaves oblong, pubescent, fringed at the summit. Scales at the base lan- 
ceolate, acute. Florets 8 — 12, ligulate, of a pale yellowish white colour, 
Seeds cylindrical, striate, crowned with a scabrous pappus. 
Grows in dry soils. 
Flowers September — October. 
The root is excessively bitter, from whence the plant has derived the 
popular name of the Gall of the earth. 
8. Rubicunda. 
P. foliis ciliatis, ra- 
dicalibus hastaio-an- 
gulatis, subintegerri- 
mis, inferioribus obo- 
vatis, basi attenuatis, 
subangulatis, summis 
Ianceolatis, integerri- 
mis; racemo simplici ; 
floribus nutantibus. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1537. Pursh 2. p. 
Leaves ciliate, those 
of the root hastate, 
angled, nearly entire, 
the lower stem leaves 
obovate, tapering at 
base, slightly angled, 
the upper lanceolate, 
entire ; racemes sim- 
ple; flowers nodding. 
499- 
This species with which I am unacquainted, was considered by Lin-* 
nseus as a variety of the P. Alba. Mr. Nuttall considers it as the same 
plant with the P. Virgata, and has excluded it from his list of species. 
Grows in shady woods from Pennsylvania to Carolina. 
Stem not above 1 8 inches high. Pursh. 
flowers August— -October, 
