SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
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Root perennial, creeping. Stem herbaceous, three to six feet high, pur- 
ple, smooth, slightly scabrous near the summit. Lower leaves opposite, the 
upper alternate, all ovate-lanceolate, very acute, with glandular serratures, 
pubescent and somewhat glaucous underneath. Petioles short, fringed. 
Flowers few, in a terminal panicle. Involucrum imbricate, leaves (twenty- 
three to twenty-seven) oblong, lanceolate, hairy, fringed. Florets of the 
ray about ten, lanceolate, hairy, yellow, about an inch long; of the disk 
numerous, yellowish. Stamens and styles scarcely as long as the florets of 
the disk. Seeds compressed. Pappus acuminate, hairy. Chaff of the 
receptacle concave, three-cleft at the summit, hairy near the summit and 
along the keel. 
This plant agrees in many respects with the H. Mollis as described by 
Pursh, but it certainly is not the H. Tomentosus of Michaux. A variety 
in the low country with the leaves pubescent and only slightly glaucous, I 
have always considered as the H. Lae vis of Walter, but Walter’s name 
could scarcely be retained to a plant which in reality has nothing smooth 
about it but the lower part of the stem. 
Grows in dry, moderately fertile soils. 
Flowers July — August. 
8. Hispidulus. E. 
Stem scabrous; leaves 
opposite, sessile, ovate- 
lanceolate, tapering to- 
wards the summit, ser- 
rulate, scabrous on the 
upper surface, paler 
underneath and slight- 
ly hispid; scales of the 
involucrum ovate-lan- 
ceolate, ciliate; chaff 
3-toothed. 
Root perennial. Stem erect, scabrous, three to four feel high. Leaves 
long, narrow, tapering to their summits, triplinerved, very obscurely serru- 
lated. Floivers few, terminal. Peduncles opposite, the upper pair gene- 
rally longer than the stem. Leaves of the involucrum ovate-lanceolate, as 
long as the disk, scabrous, ciliate. Florets of the ray eight to ten, about an 
inch long, yellow; of the disk numerous. Pappus subulate, pubescent. 
Chaff of the receptacle nearly as long as the florets of the disk, three-tooth- 
ed, hairy along the back and summits. 
Grows in the pine barrens near Louisville, Georgia. Mr. Jackson. 
Flowers September — October. 
H. caule scabro; fo- 
lds oppositis, sessili- 
bus, ovato-lanceolatis, 
superne attenuates, ser- 
ruiatis, supra scabris, 
su btus pallidioribus,his- 
pidulis; involucri squa- 
mis ovato-lanceolatis, 
ciliatis; paleis tridenta- 
tis. E. 
