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SYNGENESIA iEQDALIS. 
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Root tuberous, perennial. Stem erect, thiee to five feet high, pubescent, 
almost tomentose. Leaves linear lanceolate, sometimes falcate, cartilaginous 
along the margins, dotted, the lower obscurely five-nerved. Flowers 
axillary, crowded, forming a long compact cylindrical raceme. Peduncle 
from two lines to an inch long, clothed with small leaves. Involucrum 
about 12-leaved, bearing five flowers, leaves imbricate, lanceolate, ovate, 
dotted, villous ; the five interior very long, coloured. Corolla shorter than 
the involucrum. Style deeply two cleft. Seeds oblong, furrowed, very 
villous, crowned with a coloured, feathered pappus. Receptacle flat, dotted, 
sometimes a little hairy. 
Grows in dry soils. 
Flowers, August — September. 
13. SCARIOSA. 
Stem erect, hairy; 
leaves lanceolate, pu- 
bescent, scabrous a- 
long the margin; heads 
racemose, 14-flowered; 
scales of the involu- 
crum obovate, nearly 
glabrous, with the mar- 
gin scarious, the lower 
ones expanding. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1635. Pursh, 2. p. 509. Nutt. 2. p. 132. 
L. Squarrulosa. Mich. 2. p. 92. 
Anon. Ramos. Walt. p. 198. 
Root tuberous, perennial. Leaves somewhat crowded, lanceolate, pubes* 
cent, particularly on the under surface, scarious along the margin, the lower 
nearly a foot long, including the long attenuated base, two inches wide, the 
upper two to three inches long. Flowers in a terminal raceme. Pedun- 
cles one to four lines long, pubescent. Involucrum somewhat squarrose at 
base, scales dilated and slightly coloured at the summit. Corolla glabrous, 
bright purple. Style nearly twice as long as the corolla. Seeds furrowed, 
hairy. Pappus feathered, pale purple. Receptacle naked, slightly convex, 
handsomely dotted. 
This species is very much disposed to throw out branches whenever the 
slightest injury is sustained by the?stera. When the stem is broken, it will fre- 
quently shoot out four or five long branches, and then from the size and 
brilliant colour of the flowers, it becomes the most ornamental species of the 
genus. In this state it is probably the Anon. Ramos, of Walter. 
Of this plant there are many varieties or kindred species not yet discrimi- 
nated. In my Herbarium are the following : 
L. caule erecto, pi- 
loso ; foliis lanceolatis, 
pubescentibus, margi- 
ne scabris ; capitulis 
racemosis, 14 floris ; 
involucn squamis obo- 
vatis, subglabris, mar- 
gine scariosis, inferio- 
ribus patentibus. E. 
