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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA* 
In compact, axillary, sessile clusters. Involucrum imbricate, leaflets oblong, 
ovate, scarious, glabrous, appressed, the inner ones tinged with purple. Fe- 
male florets numerous 5 corolla , if any, closely adhering to the style ; sta- 
mens none ; style two-cleft ; stigma short, obtuse ; hermaphrodite florets 
small, with the border five-cleft, purple. Style as long as the corolla. Stig- 
ma scarcely divided. Seed oblong, scabrous. Pappus hairy. 
Grows in dry pastures — very common. 
Flowers March — May. 
^ Floribus dioicis . j * Flowers dioecious . 
Antennaria. Goertner. R. Brown. 
3. Margaritaceum. 
G. herbaceum; foliis 
lineari-Ianceolatis, sen- 
sim angustatis, acutis; 
caule superne ramoso, 
corymbo fastigiato; flo- 
ribus pedicellatis. 
Herbaceous; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, taper- 
ing, acute; stem branch- 
ing near the summit; 
corymb fastigiate, flow- 
ers on pedicels. 
Willd. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1881. Walt. p. 203. Midi. 2. p. 127. Pursh, 2. p. 524. 
Root perennial. Stem one to two feet high, branching towards the sum- 
mit, clothed with a thick tomentum. Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, to- 
mentose, hoary underneath. Flowers in large terminal corymbs. Involu- 
crum many leaved, imbricate, scales ovate, obtuse, slightly plaited, of a 
snowy whiteness : male florets with the corolla five-cleft, yellowish, sta- 
mens nearly as long as the corolla, (Anthers with two bristles at base, 
Frown ,) seed abortive, pappus scabrous, a little thickened at the summit ; 
female florets with the corolla very slender, stamens none, style two-cleft, 
stigma simple. Seed oblong, a little scabrous, pappus pilose. 
I give the habitat with some hesitation. But among my specimens I found 
one put away for examination in the manner I have usually put specimens 
received from some of my domestic correspondents ; in this instance, how- 
ever, without a note or label. On examination it proved to be a male plant 
of this species, justifying Mr. Brown’s observations on its dioecious character. 
(Trans. Lin. Soc. vol. 12. p. 123.) The specimens in my herbarium from 
the Northern States are female. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers August— September. 
