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lulosum. Semina in 
ceilulis. Pappus pa- 
leis 10, erectis, acutis. 
in the cells. Chaff of 
the pappus 10, erect, 
acute. 
1. Uniflora. Nutt. 
B. caule unifloro, 
simplici, pubescente; 
foliis anguste obovatis, 
integerrimis; pappo 
semen sequante. 
Stem one-flowered, 
simple, pubescent; 
leaves narrow, obo- 
vate, entire; pappus as 
long as the seed. 
Nutt. 2. p. 175. 
Root perennial. Stem about two feet high, slightly angled. Leaves ob- 
ovate, with an oblong tapering base, dotted, somewhat succulent when young, 
pubescent. Involucrum many leaved, leaflets ovate, acuminate, the interior 
mucronate, squarrose. Florets of the ray numerous, (nearly thirty,) yellow, 
three-toothed at the summit, externally pubescent; of the disk very numer- 
ous, tubular, yellow, covered near the summit with a glandular pubescence. 
Stamens about as long as the florets of the disk. Style scarcely longer than 
the stamens. Seed nearly cylindrical, a little enlarged towards the summit, 
hairy. Pappus as long as the seed, if not longer. Scales membranaceous, 
erect, generally acute, (surrounded at base by a white, fimbriate, exterior 
pappus?) Receptacle convex, deeply honey-comb, the cells somewhat 
hexangular, with a denticulate summit, and sufficiently deep to enclose the 
seed and its pappus. 
Grows in damp soils and along the margins of swamps in the middle 
country of Carolina and Georgia, 
Flowers July— September. 
2. Multiflora. Nutt. 
B? caule ramoso, 
multifloro, glaberrimo; 
foliis linearibus; invo- 
lucri foliolis acumina- 
tis; pappo brevi, cupu- 
lato. 
Stem branching, 
many flowered, gla- 
brous; leaves linear; 
leaves of the involu- 
crum acuminate; pap- 
pus short, cup-shaped. 
Nutt. 2. p. 176. 
