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SYNGENESIA iEQUALIS. 
Root perennial ? Stem about 2 feet high, glabrous, striate, sparingly 
branched towards the summit. Root leave^I have never swn. Stem 
leaves mere scales scattered along the stem. Flowers terminal, solitary. 
Involucrum very long, cylindrical. Florets purple. 
The specimen of this plant which Dr. Baldwin sent me from St. Ma- 
ry’s under the name of Prenanthes Pumila, is too imperfect to enable me 
to speak of it with much confidence. It appears to me questionable, how- 
ever, whether it belongs to this genus. 
It grows in the pine barrens round St. Mary’s, Georgia. 
Flowers. 
HIERACIUM. Gen. Pl. 1238. 
Receptaculum nu- 
diusculum. Pappus 
simplex, sessilis. In- 
volucrum imbricatum, j 
ovatum. I 
1. Venosum. 
H. scapo nudo, pan 
iculato, glabro ; foliis 
obovato lanceolatis, 
supra rariter pilosis, 
subtus nudis, margine 
ciiiatis denticulatisque, 
venis coloratis ; invo- 
lucris glabris. 
Receptacle naked. 
Pappus simple, sessile. 
Involucrum imbricate, 
ovate. 
Scape naked, pani- 
culate, glabrous; leaves 
obovate lanceolate, a 
little hairy on the up- 
per surface, naked un- 
derneath, the margins 
fringed and toothed, 
the veins coloured; in- 
volucrum glabrous. 
Sp. pl. 3. p. 15^0, Pursh 2. p. 502. 
Moot perennial. Stem herbaceous, 1— -2 feet high, glabrous, branching 
towards the summit. Leaves all radical, lanceolate and obovate, with a 
long tapering base, beautifully variegated with dark red veins, very hairy 
along the midrib. Flowers in corymbose panicles. Involucrum ovate, 
interior leaves 8—10, equal, exterior much shorter, imbricate; florets ligu- 
late, yellow. Seed oblong, striate, crowned with a sessile hairy pappus. 
Receptacle naked, flat, dotted. 
Grows in rich oak lapds in the upper districts of Carolina and Geo r- 
gia. 
Flowers April. 
