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SYNGENESIA AiQUALIS* 
mg, finally dilated and semiamplexicaule. Flowers in a terminal head. In- 
volucrum many leaved, containing many flowers; leaflets oblong, oval,, 
generally obtuse, with the margins membranaceous, erect. Corolla tubular, 
pale purple, covered externally as in all of this genus that I have seen, with 
a glandular pubescence. Stamens nearly as long as the corolla. Style ex- 
serted. Stigmas filiform, glandular, revolute. Seeds angular, inversely 
conic, striate. Pappus composed of five membranaceous, ovate, acumi- 
nate, lacerate, short scales. Receptacle flat, paleaceous, the galeae leaf-like, 
shorter than the corolla, linear, a little dilated at the summit. 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers April — May. 
2. Latifolia. Mich. 
M. caule simplici; 
foliis lanceolato-ovali- 
bus, acuminatis, triner- 
vibus, infimis vaginan- 
tibus; involucri foliolis 
acutis; paleis angusto- 
linearibus. 
Pursh, 2. p. 519. Nutt. 2. p. 140. 
Persoonia Latifolia. Mich. 2. p. : 
Athanasia Trinervia. Walt. p. 2< 
This species I have not seen. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolin 
Flowers. 
3. Angustifolia. 
M. caule raraoso; fo- 
liis inferioribus angus- 
to-lanceolatis, superi- 
oribus linearibus; invo- 
lucri foliolis rigidis, 
subulatis; paleis linea- 
ribus. 
Stem simple; leave! 
oblong lanceolate, acu- 
minate, three nerved, 
the lowest sKeathing; 
scales of the involu- 
crum acute; chaff of 
the receptacle narrow 
lineal’. 
. Mich. 
Stem branching; low- 
er leaves narrow lan- 
ceolate, the upper line- 
ar; scales of the invo- 
lucrum rigid, subulate; 
chaff linear. 
Pursh, 2. p. 520. Nutt. 2. p. 140. 
Persoonia Angustifolia. Mich. 2. p. 106, 
