3YNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
341 
J ; 2. CONYZOIDES. 
Leaves oval-lanceo- 
late, acute, serrate to- 
wards the summit, tri- 
plinerved, the lower at- 
tenuate at base, the 
upper entire; scales of 
the involucrum oval, 
obtuse, appressed, 
slightly reflected at the 
summit. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 2043. Pursh, 2. p. 558. 
Aster Marilandicus. Mich. 2. p. 108, 
Conyza Asteroides. Walt. p. 204. 
Stein about two feet high, striate, slightly pubescent. Leaves sessile, the 
lower cuneate lanceolate, acutely and conspicuously serrate, slightly fringed 
and scabrous along the margins, the upper lanceolate, entire. Flowers ses- 
sile, clustered, forming fastigi^te corymbs. Involucrum nearly cylindrical, 
scales oblong, finely fringed, appressed, with green summits slightly reflexed. 
Florets of the ray five, sometimes six, oval, two to three-cleft at the summit, 
small; of the disk about fifteen, scarcely longer than the involucrum, tinged 
with purple. Seeds villous. Pappus scabrous. 
Grows in the middle and upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers June to August. 
A. foliis ovali-lance- 
olatis, acutis, superne 
serratis, triplinervibus, 
inferioribus basi atten- 
uatis, superioribus in- 
tegerrimis; involucri 
squamis ovaIibus,obtu- 
sis, appressis, apice 
subreflexis. 
3. Tortifolius. Mich. 
A. foliis cuneato ob- 
ovatis, acutis, integer- 
rimis, pubescentibus, 
tortuoso-patulis; flori- 
bus subsessilibus, ag- 
gregatis; involucri 
squamis lineari-lanceo- 
latis, appressis. 
Leaves cuneate, ob- 
ovate, acute, entire, 
pubescent, tortuous, 
expanding; flowers 
nearly sessile, aggre- 
gate; scales of the in- 
volucrum linear-lance- 
olate, appressed. 
Mich. 2. p. 109. Pursh, 2. p. 554. 
Conyza Bifoliata. Walt. p. 204. 
