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SYNGENESIA SUPERFUTA. 
Stem about two feet high, pubescent, branching near the summit. Leave » 
sessile, obovate, sometimes obtuse, slightly twisted so as to have their edges 
generally vertical. Flowers in a fastigiate corymb. Involucrum cylindri- 
cal, scales linear-lanceolate, appressed. Florets of the ray five, linear lan- 
ceolate, two-cleft at the summit; of the disk numerous. Seed oblong, co- 
vered with a silken pubescence. 
Grows in dry soils; very common in the low country of Carolina and 
Georgia. 
Flowers August to September. 
** Ligulis pluribus, j ** Florets of the ray 
foliis integerrimis. | numerous; leaves entire. 
4 . Hyssopifolius. Linn. 
A. foliis lineari-Ian- 
ceolatis, trinervibus, 
punctatis, acutis, raar- 
gine scabris; raraulis 
corymboso - fastigiatis, 
coarctatis; radio sub- 
quinquefloro; involu- 
cris imbricatis, disco 
duplo brevioribus. 
Leaves linear-lance- 
olate, three-nerved, 
dotted, acute, with the 
margins scabrous; 
branches fastigiate, 
clustered; florets of the 
ray about 5; involu- 
crum imbricate, half as 
long as the disk. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 2022. Pursh, 2. p. 543. 
Stem one to two feet high, erect, striate, nearly glabrous. Leaves of the 
stem two to three inches long, narrow lanceolate, entire, distinctly three- 
nerved, sessile; of the branches very small. Flowers in small terminal fas- 
tigiate corymbs. Scales of the involucrum ovate; the interior obtuse, the 
exterior acute. Florets of the ray three to seven, sometimes more, white, 
tinged with purple; of the disk yellow. Seeds , as in all of this division, 
covered with a silken pubescence. 
Grows in sandy fields and woods: New-Jersey to Carolina. Pursh. I 
have not seen this species in the low country of Carolina. 
Flowers August to October. 
