386 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Sp. pi. 3. 2062. Pursh, 2. p. 540. Nutt. 2. p. l6l. 
Stem two to three feet high, smooth, tinged with purple and. having a 
glaucous hue, bearing many slender, obliquely expanding branches. Leaves 
sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, finely and acutely serrate, pale underneath, 
slightly scabrous along the margins. Racemes generally erect, sometimes 
slightly recurved, not very compact. Scales of the involucrum linear, rather 
obtuse, slightly pubescent along the margins. Florets of the ray about five, 
rather small. Seed nearly glabrous. 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers September. 
32. Lithospermifolia 
S. caule ramoso, pu- 
bescente; foliis lanceo- 
latis, utrinque scabris, 
attenuatis, 3-nervibus, 
integerrimis; racemis 
erectis, ligulis elonga- 
tes. 
Willd. 
Stem branching, pu- 
bescent; leaves lanceo- 
late, scabrous on both 
surfaces, tapering, 3- 
nerved, entire; racemes 
erect; florets of the 
ray long. 
Willd. enum. 891. Pursh, 2. p. 541. Nutt. 2. p. l6l. 
This species I have never seen. Dr. Schweinitz, in some valuable MS. 
notes on this genus which I have received from him, remarks that its leaves 
and their habit determine this species well; rare about Salem, North-Caro- 
lina. 
Grows in sandy barren soils New-Jersey to Carolina. Pursh. 
Flowers August — October. 
33. Flexicaulis. L. 
S. caule flexuoso, 
glabro, angulato; foliis 
ovatis, acuminatis, ser- 
ratis, glabris; racemis 
erectis, axillaribus; li- 
gulis mediocribus. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 2064. Mich. 2, p. 
161 . 
Stem flexuous, gla- 
brous, angled; leaves 
ovate, acuminate, ser- 
rate, glabrous; ra- 
cemes erect, axillary; 
florets of the ray mid- 
dle sized. 
118. Pursh, 2. p. 542. Nutt. 2. p. 
