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or even an Helenium. Stem rising 1 one foot and 
an half, round and smooth, with many long 
leaves of a deep green. Perianthe small embri- 
eated with unequal leafy folioles, rays much lon¬ 
ger, phoranthe spherical (seeds perhaps naked). 
The whole plant is odoriferous and intensely 
bitter, it gives an abominable bitter taste to the 
milk of the cows that feed upon it in summer, 
when the plant thrives and keeps green notwith¬ 
standing the greatest drought. ' It grows at 
Atakapas near roads and houses, but was brought 
there accidentallv. 
218. Verbesina Sie^esbeckia Wild ?—Anthemis vel 
Verbesina Rob. p. 441. Not described, common 
along the Mississippi, stern winged branched, two 
or three feet high, flowers yellow, odoriferous. 
It is errhinous. 
519. Helianthus procumbens Raf. Scaber, caulibus 
procumbentibus subrepens, foliis oppositis peti- 
olatis ovalis dentatis ; floribus axillaribus solitaris. 
Raf.—Ruphthalmum Rob. p. 441. Rut certain¬ 
ly not of that genus, although the habit is a little 
different from Helianthus . Stems round with a 
rough pubescence, flowers yellow, blossoming 
all summer, perianthe oval embricated with une¬ 
qual folioles, phoranthe conical, with coloured 
paleas, membranaceous and toothed This is per¬ 
haps the H. prostratus of Wildenow. 
520, Polymnia macrophylla Raf. Caule sulcato, foliis 
oppositis petiolatis, petiolis alatis amplexicaulis, 
sinuato-angulosis acutis supra scabris ; radiis 
