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ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 814; Safford 268. 
Admitted on Safford’s record which is undoubtedly correct. 
Widely distributed in the tropics, a native of tropical America. 
ELEPHANTOPUS SPICATUS Aubl. PI. Guin. 2 (1775) 808; Safford 268. 
G. E. S. 111. 
A native of Mexico, now common in the Philippines and Guam, and 
found also in southern China. 
GLOSSOGYNE Cassini 
GLOSSOGYNE TENUIFOLIA (Less.) Cass. Diet. Sci. Nat. 51 (1857) 475; 
Safford 284. 
Bidens tenuiflora Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. (1824) 44, t. 45. 
McGregor 406, G. E. S. 444, slopes back of Piti. 
Southern China and Formosa southward to New Caledonia, Australia, 
and Fiji. 
( Lactuca sativa Linn., the common lettuce, is admitted by Safford, but 
it is dependent on seeds imported from year to year and does not thrive.) 
SYNE DR ELLA Gaertner 
SYNEDRELLA NODI FLORA (Linn.) Gaertn. Fruct. 2 (1791) 456, t. 171; 
Safford 380. 
Verbesina nodiflora Linn. Cent. PI. 1 (1755) 28. 
Mrs. Clemens s. n., G. E. S. 149. 
A weed in all tropical countries, originating in tropical America. 
VERNON I A Schreber 
VERNONIA CINEREA (Linn.) Less, in Linnaea 4 (1829) 291; Safford 
396. 
G. E. S. 70. 
A weed of pantropic distribution, probably a native of the eastern hemi- 
sphere. 
VERNONIA PATULA (Dry.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 
439. 
Conyza patula Dry. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 184. 
Vernonia chinensis Less, in Linnaea 6 (1831) 105, 674. 
Vernonia villosa W. F. Wight in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 396. 
G. E. S. 456. 
India to Formosa and Malaya. 
WEDELIA Jacquemont 
WEDELIA Bl FLORA (Linn.) DC. in Wight Contrib. (1834) 18. 
Verbesina biflora Linn. Sp. PI., ed. 2 (1763) 1271. 
Wollastonia scabriuscula DC. ex Dene, in Nuov. Ann. Mus. Paris 3 
(1834) 414; Prodr. 5 (1836) 547. 
Stemmodontia biflora W. F. Wight in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 
377. 
Collected in Guam by Haenke, and reported from there by DeCandolle 
as Wollastonia scabriuscula DC. 
Tropical Asia to Polynesia, especially along the seashore. 
