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panicle. Involucrum many leaved; leaves linear-lanceolate, hairy, fringed, 
rather longer than the disk. Florets of the ray twelve to fourteen, (twenty, 
Willd.) lanceolate, yellow, not large; of the disk very numerous. Anthers 
longer than the florets of the disk. Seed compressed, glabrous. Pappus 
subulate, longer than the seed. Chaff of the receptacle hairy at the summit, 
with two slight lateral teeth. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina. 
Flowers August — October. 
20. Altissimus. 
Leaves alternate, 
ovate-lanceolate, ser- 
rate, scabrous, tripli- 
nerved, tapering to- 
wards the summit, on 
petioles; petioles frin- 
ged; scales of the invo- 
lucrum lanceolate, frin- 
ged. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 2273. Nutt. 2. p. 178. Pursh, 2. p. 571. 
Resembles the preceding; but the stem is smooth and purple. Leaves 
petiolate, broader and almost ovate-lanceolate. Leaves of the involucrum 
shorter. Florets of the ray about sixteen. Willd. 
With this species I am unacquainted. 
Grows in mountain meadows from Pennsylvania to Carolina. Pursh. 
Flowers July to September. 
21. Divaricatus. 
H. caule glabro, ra- 
mosissimo; foliis ovato- 
lanceolatis, triplinervi- 
bus, supra scabris, sub- 
tus glabriusculis; pani- 
cula multiflora, floribus 
minimis. 
Stem glabrous, bran- 
ching; leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, triplinerved, 
scabrous on the upper 
surface, glabrous un- 
derneath; panicle ma- 
ny flowered, flowers 
verv small. 
H. folns alterms, 
ovato-lanceolatis, ser- 
ratis, scabris, tripliner- 
vibus, apice attenuatis, 
petiolatis; petiolis cili- 
atis; involucri squamis 
lanceolatis, ciliatis. 
