SYNG&NESU SUPERFLUA. 33 7 
Grows in dry soils. 
Flowers August — September 
6. Gossypina. 
C. lanuginoso-candi- 
cans; foliis sessilibus, 
oblongo - spathulatis, 
obtusis, integerrimis; 
corymbo subfastigiato. 
Mich. 2. p. 122. Pursh, 2. p. 532. Nutt. 2. p. 150. 
Root perennial. Stem one to two feet high, covered, like the whole plant > 
except the corolla, with a white lanuginous tomentum. Leaves oblong, ob- 
tuse, the lower ones obovate, all entire. Corymbs simple, few flowered. 
Involucrum many leaved, imbricate; leaves subulate, very woolly. Florets 
of the ray numerous, yellow. Anthers scarcely longer than the florets of the 
disk, white at the summit. Seed oblong, viscid, hispid. Pappus of all the 
florets double, the exterior white, finely lacerate, the interior scabrous, 
brownish. 
Grows in high pine lands ; common in the middle districts of Georgia. 
Flowers August — October. 
Woolly, hoary;leaves 
sessile, oblong, spathu- 
late, obtuse, very en- 
tire; corymb fastigiate. 
7. Dentata. E. 
C. lanuginosa; foliis 
euneato obovatis, obtu- 
sis, sinuato dentatis,su- 
perioribus oblongo ova- 
libus, integris; corym- 
bo simplici. E. 
Lanuginous; leaves 
cuneate, obovate, ob- 
tuse, deeply toothed, 
the upper oblong, oval, 
entire; corymb simple. 
Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, covered like the whole plant 
except the corolla, with a white lanuginous tomentum. Lower leaves three 
to five inches long, with a long tapering entire base, towards the summit 
coarsely and obtusely toothed ; upper leaves numerous, oblong, all sessile 
and seiniamplexicaule. Flowers in a simple corymb, leaves subulate, very 
woolly; florets of the ray numerous, (twenty to twenty-five,) strongly nerv- 
ed; florets of the disk also very numerous, all yellow. Stamens much lon- 
ger than the florets of the disk, white, with the terminal appendices lanceo- 
late. Style longer than the stamens, two-cleft. Seed small, oblong, hispid. 
Pappus double in all the florets, the exterior small, lacerate, white, the in- 
terior scabrous, reddish brown. 
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