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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Root perennial. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, simple, glabrous. 
Leaves of the root obovate, sometimes nearly round, crenate, glabrous, with 
an attenuated base about an inch long ; leaves of the stem sessile, small, pin* 
natifid, a little woolly at the base. Flowers in small terminal panicles. 
Involucrum simple, many leaved ; leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, with 
one or two small subulate leaves at base ; florets of the ray ten to twelve, 
yellow; florets of the disk numerous. Stamens as long as the corolla. 
Seed oblong, striate. Pappus simple, hairy, white. 
In the specimens which I have from this State, the leaves are more orbi- 
cular, thicker, and the flowers larger than those from Pennsylvania; per- 
haps they form distinct species. 
Grows near Vance’s ferry, on the Santee river. 
Flowers. 
5. BaLSAMITjE. 
S. foliis radicalibus 
oblongis,serratis,petio- 
latis, caulinis inferiori- 
bus lyrato-pinnatifidis, 
serratis, summis pinna- 
tifidis, dentatis; floribus 
subumbellatis; caule pe- 
dunculisque basi villo- 
sis. 
Leaves of the root 
oblong, serrate, on pe- 
tioles, of the stem, the 
lower lyrate pinnatifid, 
serrate, the highest pin- 
natifid, toothed; flow- 
ers somewhat umbel- 
late; stem and pedun- 
cles villous at base. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1999. Pursh, 2. p. 530. 
Root perennial. Stem one to two feet high, glabrous except at the ori- 
gin of the leaves, simple, slender. Leaves of the root oblong, oval or ovate, 
serrate and crenate, glabrous, supported on petioles four to six inches long, 
a little woolly at the base 5 leaves of the stem incised, pinnatifid, toothed. 
Flowers in small terminal umbels. Involucrum simple, many leaved ; leaf- 
lets linear-lanceolate, membranaceous along the margin, with one or two 
small setaceous leaves at base ; florets of the ray ten to twelve, linear-lan- 
ceolate, deeply three-cleft, differing in this respect from all the other species 
of this genus in my collection ; florets of the disk numerous. Stamens about 
as long as the corolla. Seeds naked, striate. Pappus setaceous, wliite, si- 
milar on all the florets. 
Grows in damp pine barrens. Dr. JVPBride. 
Flowers April — May. 
