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Stem three to four feet high, attenuated, sometimes reddish. The lower 
haves acute, and somewhat resembling those of the Spiraea Salicifolia. 
Grows in Georgia and Florida, where it was first detected by Dr. Bald- 
win. 
Flowers — 
30. Erecta? Pursh. 
Stem simple and with 
the peduncles pubes- 
cent; leaves lanceolate, 
acute at each end, gla- 
brous, veiny, scabrous 
along the margins; ra- 
cemes short, erect, ax- 
illary and terminal. 
f 
Pursh, 2. p. 542. Nutt. 2. p. 161. 
Stem about two feet high, erect, simple in my specimens, glabrous, ex- 
cepting towards the summits. Leaves lanceolate, somewhat coriaceous, 
veined, glabrous, excepting the margins, which under a lens are fringed with 
short rigid hairs, acute at base, the lower appearing slightly petiolate, more 
uniform in their size than usual in this genus. Racemes axillary, one ta 
three inches long, erect, rigid, flowers rather large. Scales of the involu- 
crum linear, rather obtuse. Florets of the ray seven to ten, pale. Seed 
glabrous. 
There is great uncertainty still about this species. The plants described 
by Pursh, Nuttall, and myself, differ at least in pubescence. The racemes 
are collected more towards the summit than in S. Flexicaulis, from which it 
is in other respects sufficiently distinct. 
Grows in damp soils. 
Flowers September — October. 
S. caule simplici pe- 
dunculisque pubescen- 
te; foliis lanceolatis, 
utrinque acutis, gla- 
bris, venosis, margine 
scabris; racemi's brevi- 
bus, erectis, axillari- 
bus terminalibusque. 
31. Ccesia. Aiton? 
S. caule erecto, laevi; 
foliis lanceolatis, acu- 
minatis, glabris, serra 
tis; racemis erectis; 
ligulis mediocribus. 
c 
Stem erect, smooth; 
leaves lanceolate, acu- 
minate, glabrous, ser- 
rate; racemes erect; 
florets of the ray mid- 
dle sized. 
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