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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
very acute. Florets of the ray linear, ligulate, two-toothed? at the sum- 
mit, pale blue, nearly twice as long as the disk; stamens none; style much 
longer than the tube, two-cleft; stigma simple, expanding. Florets of the 
disk small, tubular, yellowish, five-toothed at the summit. Stamens as long 
as the corolla. Style longer than the stamens. S^mufthickened, erect. 
Seed oblong, compressed, slightly winged, nearly glabrous. Pappus sca- 
brous. Receptacle slightly convex, naked, dotted. 
Grows in dry shaded soils, near Beaufort, near Ashley Ferry, Colum- 
bia, Mr. Herbemont. 
Flowers March— April. 
8. Strigosum? 
E. pubescens, sca- 
briusculum; foliis line- 
asibus, elongatis, infe- 
rioribus lineari-lanceo- 
latis, denticulatis; caule 
laxe paniculato; flori- 
bus terminalibus. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1953. 
Doronicum Ramosum. Walt. p. 205? 
Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, slightly furrowed, a little 
scabrous, with the leaves and in volucrum clothed with white, appressed 
hair, giving the plant a somewhat hoary aspect, heaves of the root 
long, narrow, lanceolate, denticulate; of the stem long, linear, entire. Floiv - 
ers in a loose terminal panicle. Involucrum imbricate, with the leaves sub- 
ulate, appressed. Florets of the ray linear, twice as long as the involucrum, 
two to three cleft at the summit, white. Style twice as long as the tube, 
slightly two-cleft; stigmas obtuse; seeds oblong, hispid; pappus, the ex- 
terior composed of minute scales, the interior wanting. Florets of the disk 
very numerous, tubular, yellow, with the border five-cleft. Stamens very 
short. Style scarcely longer than the stamens. Seeds hispid. Pappus 
double, the exterior composed of minute scales, the interior of a few hairy 
rays as long as the corolla. Receptacle slightly convex. 
Under the name of E. Strigosum, I received from Dr. Muhlenberg, and 
under that of E. Nervosum, 1 received from Dr. Schweinitz, (Salem, North- 
Carolina,) specimens apparently of the same plant. They both differ from 
the one I have described in being less hairy, and having the florets of the 
ray much wider, in both the interior pappus of the ray was wanting. Per- 
haps these are distinct, and may be the E. Nervosum of Pursh, but not of 
Willdenow. 
Grows in dry sandy pastures, 
Flowers May — August. 
Pubescent, slightly 
scabrous; leaves linear, 
long, the lower linear- 
lanceolate, denticulate; 
stem loosely paniculate; 
flowers terminal. 
