SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA, 
319 
Mich, 2. p. 125. Pursh, 2. p. 523. 
A shrub eight to ten feet high, erect, branching, with the young branches 
angled, dotted. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, very acute, obscurely three- 
nerved, sometimes sparingly toothed. Flowers in a terminal compound 
panicle; heads generally axillary, solitary, sometimes clustered near the 
summit of the stem. Involucrum many leaved, imbricate, slightly ventri* 
cose ; leaflets ovate, lanceolate, acute, ap pressed, glabrous. Sterile florets 
tubular, white, five-cleft; anthers erect, with summits connivent; style 
short, undivided ; the seed abortive, crowned with a very short scabrous 
pappus. Fertile florets tubular, five-toothed ; stamens none ; style longer 
than the corolla, two-cleft; stigma simple; seeds cylindric, glabrous, 
striate, crowned with a hairy pappus longer than the corolla; receptacle 
flat, naked, dotted. 
Grows in saline soils, generally along the inner margins of the Sea-Islands. 
Flowers September — October. 
2. Halimifolia. 
Leaves obovate and 
oval, notched and too- 
thed near the summit; 
panicle compound, lea- 
fy; heads on peduncles. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1915. Walt. p. 203. Mich. 2. p. 125. Pursh, 2. p. 523. 
A shrub six to twelve feet high, with the branches nearly erect, glabrous 
and angled towards the summit. Leaves alternate, sessile, generally obo» 
vate, cuneate and entire near the base, coarsely toothed towards the sum- 
mit, the upper oval or lanceolate, frequently entire, the whole covered with 
whitish scales or dust. Panicle large, loose, terminal, the heads axillary 
and terminal, sometimes clustered near the summit of the stem. Partial 
peduncle one to four lines long. Florets very similar to those of the pre- 
ceding species. Style of the sterile floret as long as the stamens. Stigma 
capitate, undivided. Pappus scabrous, shorter than the corolla. Style of 
the fertile floret scarcely as long as the stamens, Uvo-cleft. Stigmas some- 
what acute. Seeds oblong, striate. Pappus hairy, white, twice as long as 
the corolla. 
Very generally diffused over the lower country of Carolina and Georgia, 
preferring damp stiff clay land, but growing indiscriminately in fresh or 
brackish soils. 
Flowers September— -October. 
B. foliis obovatis o- 
valibusque, superne in- 
ciso dentatis; panicula 
composita, foliosa; ca- j 
pitulis pedunculatis. | 
