446 SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
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hairy. Pappus eight to twelve-leaved, with the leaves membranaceous, 
fimbriate towards the summit. Receptacle convex, dotted. 
Grows near the Santee River in damp soils. St. John’s, Berkeley. St. 
James, Santee. 
Flowers in April. 
2. Decurrens. Macbride. 
L. caule glaberrimo; 
foliis lineari-lanceola- 
tis, denticulatis, gla- 
bris, decurrentibus; 
paleis pappi, fmbriatis. 
Stem very glabrous; 
leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, toothed, glabrous, 
decurrent; chaff of the 
pappus fimbriate. 
L. Helenium,JVutt. 2. p. 174. 
Root perennial. Stem about twelve to eighteen inches high, simple, gla- 
brous, furrowed, not fistulous. Leaves much longer than those of the pre- 
ceding species, similar but distinctly decurrent, more slightly denticulate. 
Flower solitary, terminal. Involucrum many leaved, in two series; the 
exterior (eighteen) subulate, a little hairy at the summit, expanding, finally 
erect, (are these to be considered as scales belonging to the florets of the 
ray?) Florets of the ray eighteen to twenty, cuneate, yellow, pubescent on 
the outer surface, three-cleft at the summit; of the disk very numerous, with 
the border five-cleft. Stamens a little longer than the corolla. Style^ two- 
cleft; stigma somewhat capitate. Seeds cylindric, glabrous. Pappus about 
eight-leaved, leaves membranaceous, awned, fimbriate. Receptacle convex, 
glabrous, dotted. 
Grows in damp soils — along the head branches of Cooper River. Dr. 
Macbride. In wet pine barrens, Chatham and Bryan counties, Georgia. 
Flowers March — April. 
As fimbriata, the name applied to one of these plants by Michaux is de- 
rived from a generic character applicable to both, and helenium not ap- 
propriate, I have taken the liberty of distinguishing these two species by 
the names given to them by Dr. Macbride, when many years ago he first 
pointed them out to me as distinct, though hitherto confounded. 
BALDUINA. Nuttall. 
Involucrum poly- 
phyllum, imbricatum, 
squarrosum. Recepta- 
eulum convexum, cel- 
Involucrum many 
leaved, imbricate, 
squarrose. Receptacle 
convex, cellular. Seed 
