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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA* 
Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, pubescent near the summit. Leaves 
linear subulate, acute, very glabrous underneath, slightly scabrous on the 
upper surface, three to four inches long, two to three lines wide, when 
young, sometimes fringed. Flowers large, rarely exceeding four to five, on 
branches or peduncles nearly naked. Iiivolucrum imbricate, leaves linear 
lanceolate, pubescent, reflexed, equal in length, the lowest sometimes longer 
and leaf-like. Florets of the ray about twenty-four, nearly an inch long, 
purple; of the disk numerous, yellow. Seed glabrous, angled. Pappus 
scabrous. 
Grows in wet pine barrens. 
Flowers October— November. 
7. Grandiflorus. 
A. foliis subamplex- 
icaulibus, lineari subu- 
latis, rigidis, reflexis, 
margine ciliato-hispi- 
dis; caule hirto, r$,mis 
unifloris; involucri 
squarais lineari-Ianceo- 
latis. 
Leaves somewhat 
amplexicaule, linear, 
subulate, rigid, reflex- 
ed, with the margin ci- 
liate and hispid; stem 
hairy, the branches 1- 
flowered; involucrum 
squarrose, the scales 
linear -lanceolate. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 150. Mich. 2. p. 111. Pursh, 2. p. 550. Nutt. 2. p. 156. 
Stem two to three feet high, very hairy, particularly towards the summit. 
Leaves two to four inches long, scabrous, sometimes almost hispid, linear, 
acute, the upper subulate. Floivers solitary on branches much more nu- 
merous than in the preceding species. Involucrum conspicuously squarrose, 
scales linear lanceolate, reflected. Florets of the ray numerous, large for 
this genus, linear-lanceolate, purple; of the disk numerous, yellow. Seeds 
nearly glabrous. Dill. Hort. Elth. 
Grows in dry sandy woods, Carolina, Pursh. In the mountains of North- 
Carolina and Virginia. Mich. I have not seen this species in the low 
country. 
Flowers October — November. 
8. Exilis. E. 
A. glaberrimus; cau- 
le gracili, elato, parce 
ramoso; foliis praelon- 
gis, lineari subulatis; 
Very glabrous, stem 
slender, tall, sparingly 
branched; leaves very 
long, linear, subulate; 
