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of a middling size, in a long virgate panicle. The lateral racemes axillary, 
few-flowered. Scales of the involucrum subulate, acute, villous, somewhat 
squarrose, scarcely longer than the mature seed. Florets of the ray want- 
ing; of the disk twelve to fifteen, deeply five-cleft, pale purple. Seed ob- 
long, very glabrous. Receptacle small, naked. 
This plant, when I first discovered it, appeared to me likely to constitute 
a genus in Syngenesia ^Equalis, somewhere between Yernonia and Eupato- 
rium; but its involucrum and its habit so much resemble those of an Aster, 
that I have been induced for the present to arrange it here — varies with the 
lower stem leaves, nearly glabrous, and the leaves spathulate lanceolate. 
Grows very abundantly in the rich high lands between the Alabama and 
Chatahouchie rivers. 
Flowers September- — October. 
32. Versicolor. Willd. 
A. foliis subamplex- 
icaulibus, lato-lanceo- 
latis, serratis; caule ra- 
mosissimo, glabro; in- 
volucri squamis lanceo- 
latis, Iaxis, disco bre- 
vioribus. 
Leaves somewhat 
amplexicaule, broad, 
lanceolate, serrate, 
stem branching, gla- 
brous; scales of the in- 
volucrum lanceolate, 
loose, shorter than the 
disk. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 2045. Pursh, 2. p. 553. Nutt. 2. p. 158. 
Upper leaves entire, the lower somewhat serrate, those of the root ob- 
long, attenuate at each end, serrate in the middle, all glabrous. Flowers 
handsome, clustered towards the summits of the branches. Florets of the 
ray, first white, afterwards purple. Willd. 
The specimens of plants that pass under this name with us, agree very 
accurately with the description of Willdenow, excepting that the flowers are 
small, and the plant of course not as ornamental as he represents. 
Grows in rich damp soils. 
Flowers September— October. 
32. Ljevigatus. 
A. foliis subamplexi- 
caulibus, lato-lanceo- 
latis, subserratis, lae- 
vibus; caule ramosissi- 
mo, glabro, ramulis mul- 
Leaves somewhat 
amplexicaule, broad, 
lanceolate, slightly ser- 
rate, smooth; stem 
much divided, gla- 
