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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
and growing to the height of ten or twelve feet, very pubescent when young: 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, very acute, attenuated near the base, 
then dilated and amplexicaule. Flowers very numerous, though generally 
solitary on short branches, large and handsome. Scales of the involucrum 
very pubescent, almost villous. Florets of the ray numerous, bright pur- 
ple; of the disk purplish. Seeds pubeseent. 
Grows in swamps. 
Flowers October. 
%%% Foliis lanceola- 
tis ovatisque , inferiori- 
bus serratis. 
f Floribus corymbo- 
sis. 
%%% Leaves lanceo- 
late and ovate , the low- 
er serrate. 
f Flowers in corymbs ♦ 
24. Surculosus? Mich. 
A. caule simplici, su- 
perne pubescente; fo- c 
liis obovato-lanceolatis, n 
acutis, parce serratis, h 
supra scabris, superio- ri 
ribus minoribus; flori- o 
bus paucis, majusculis; tl 
involucri squamis ob- fl 
longo-ovatis, reflexis, si 
pubentissimis. E. o 
Stem simple, pubes- 
cent towards the sum- 
mit; leaves obovate- 
lanceolate, acute, spa- 
ringly serrate, scabrous 
on the upper surface, 
the upper ones small; 
flowers few, large; 
scales of the involucrum 
oblong, ovate, reflexed, 
j very pubescent. 
Mich. 2. p. 112. Pursh, 2. p. 547. Nutt. 2. p. 157* 
A. Liatroides. Muhl. Cat. » 
Root creeping. Stem erect twelve to eighteen inches high, very pubes- 
cent towards the summit. Leaves sessile, somewhat three-nerved, slightly 
scabrous underneath, pubescent and very scabrous on the upper surface, 
ciliate when young; the lowgr leaves attenuate at base, three to four inches 
long, six to eight lines wide, the upper smaller. Flowers large, not nume- 
rous, (thirty-five) in a small terminal corymb, sometimes solitary. Involu- 
crum imbricate, cylindrical; the lower leaves ovate, nearly acute; the in- 
terior oblong, obtuse, reflected, all very pubescent. Florets of the ray 
about twenty, bright purple; of the disk, yellow. Seeds slightly angled,, 
and a little hairy. Pappus scabrous. 
Grows in Carolina, in the flat pine barrens near Purysburg- 
Flowers October— November. 
