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SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Stem two to three feet high, angular, glabrous. Leaves broad, entire, 
sessile, and connate by a small membrane, very glabrous, acute at each end 
but not acuminate. Flowers small, the lower opposite, axillary, the upper 
forming a dichotomous corymb. Exterior involucrum smaller than the in- 
terior, leaves lanceolate, glabrous. Florets of the ray about eight, entire, 
yellow; of the disk not very numerous. Seed compressed, cuneate, slightly 
bidentate and margined. 
Collected near the junction of the Broad and Saluda rivers by Mr. Oem- 
ler. 
Flowers July — August. 
6. Rosea. Nutt. 
C. parva, glaberri- 
ma; caule simplici; fo- 
liis linearibus, integer- 
rimis; capitulis axilla- 
ribus terminalibusque, 
longe pedunculatis; 
se minibus integris, nu- 
dis. 
Nutt. 2. p. 179- 
Root perennial. Stem about twelve inches high, smooth, sometimes 
branching. Leaves about two inches long, opposite, connate, and sparingly 
ciliate at base, the axils producing small leaves or abortive branchlets. 
Floivers few, small, on peduncles about three inches long. Exterior invo- 
lucrum very small, interior eight-leaved. Florets of the ray about eight, 
pale red, obsoletely three-toothed; of the disk not numerous, somewhat saf- 
fron coloured. Seeds entire, not emarginated, naked. Nutt. 
Grows in damp pine barrens and grassy swamps, New-Jersey to Georgia. 
Nutt. 
Flowers in August. 
Small, very glabrous; 
stem simple; leaves 
linear, entire; heads 
axillary and terminal, 
on long peduncles; 
seeds entire, naked. 
** Foliis oppositis , 
divisis. 
7. Auriculata. 
C. pubescens; foliis 
subsessilibus, ovali-lan- 
eeolatis, integerrimis, 
Leaves opposite, 
divided '. 
Pubescent; leaves 
nearly sessile, oval- 
lanceolate, entire, the 
