STNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
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Leaves sessile, entire, slightly three-nerved, almost tomentose. Flowers in 
a long terminal raceme, on peduncles three to six lines long. Scales of the 
involucrum slightly appressed, villous. Florets of the ray, twelve to fifteen, 
linear-lanceolate, bright blue; of the disk blue also. Anthers and Stigmas 
purple. Seed villous. Pappus slightly scabrous. 
Grows in dry soils— common. 
Flowers September — October. 
19. Reticulatus. Pursli. 
A. foliis sessilibus, 
oblongo lanceolatis, 
utrinque acutis, cano 
tomentosis, triplinervi- 
bus, subtus reticulato 
venosis; floribus race- 
mosis; involucri squa- 
mis acutissimis. 
Leaves sessile, ob- 
long, lanceolate, acute 
at each end, hoary and 
tomentose, triplinerv- 
ed, underneath reticu- 
lately veined; flowers 
in racemes; scales of 
the involucrum very 
acute. 
Pursh, 2. p. 548. 
Stem about three feet high, tomentose, branching toward the summit. 
Leaves with the margins revolute, racemes somewhat fastigiate. Pedun 
ales almost naked. Scales of the involucrum loosely imbricate. Flowers 
middle sized. Florets of the ray and disk white. Pursh. 
With this species I am unacquainted. 
Grows in dry swamps — Carolina and Georgia. Pursh, 
Flowers August— October. 
20. Nov® Angli®. Lin. 
A. foliis angusto-lan- 
ceolatis, pilosis, am- 
plexicaulibus, basi au- 
riculatis; caule piloso; 
floribus terminalibus, 
interdum confertis; in- 
volucri squamis lanceo- 
latis, laxe appressis,dis- 
co Jongioribus. 
Leaves narrow, lan- 
ceolate, hairy, amplex- 
icaule, auriculate at 
base; stem hairy; flow- 
ers terminal, some- 
times crowded; scales 
of the involucrum lan- 
ceolate, loosely appres- 
sed, longer than the 
disk. 
