1372 CARDUACEAE 
or subcircular sessile bracteals: e turning reddish brown: ligules of the 
shorter than in its ally, 4. divaricatus L., from which it differs eed: in 
its more straggling habit, narrow oo inflorescence, and less-coarsely 
toothed less prolonged leaves.—Mt. sl opes; Blue Ridge, Ga.—Sum. 
8. A. flexilis Burgess. Stem low, slender, smooth, and virgate: leaf-blades 
small, short, thin, dull, dark-green, ovate-acute with the broad pud rounded 
base bisected by a deep sharp sinus; Auer M Qu serrate with low obseure 
th; petioles short: infl sc , tuft-like of a few a -peduncled 
heads: bracts narrowly linear, obtuse, poe uni n plant a Ner 
of hair o l2 n ; otherwise much a s A. divaricatus L.—Mt. 
idge, iffers fro Boykinii (with which it grow “especially 
in its mr Shorter dull leaf. i d the sharp sinus, erenate margins, and 
the obtuse brac 
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9. A. multiformis Burgess. Stem 3-6 dm. high, minutely glandular, ereet, 
slender, terete, or angular-striate in poles be iea a usually 2, their 
blades large, cordate-oblong; cauline leav ral forms, their blades 
uid hd rough idle minutely puberutent beneath, por of the lower 
ones nate, sually with a row those of the upper oval 
to e: vule DERIT the SOUCIS, SIRO -lánceolate, Merry sessile 
r 0: cor a e 3 40 mm. 
broad: ray-flowers about 13: ligules rounded and retuse af the apex: braets 
green: inflorescence-glands E Peu “hidden n by the min e ct pubes- 
cence of the peduncles.—Moist, shaded places, various provi of Coastal 
Plain, N. C. to Pa. and Me. bun —fall.—Resembles A. macr rons but its 
leaves thinner, narrower, mo e polymorphous, MUN narrower si ls 1uch 
less harsh; glan nds fewer, sm alt r, pale, less conti AES inflo- 
rescence more level- -topped, obconie when past: rays nde Eon ns i Ros 
A. riciniatus Burgess. Stem smooth, red, terete, often 3 dm. iude o. 
leaves usually two, unequal; blades deltoid- cordate or ovate-cordate, h long 
low eurvescent or erenate teeth; basal le af smaller, the blade orbieula. ovate, 
e leaves ovate broad o sinus; 
the others lanceolate or elliptic, with MAT taper red bas yer dentate 
below, becoming sharp-serrulate above; petioles dou. or peri narrow strap- 
like wings: inflorescence a all loose terminal p with slender ascending 
pedicels: bracts uniform, lingual: ligules of the ray d p and then 
transiently violet, soon turning whitish, in cami —Moist mountain 
woods, Blu e Ridge, N. C.—Late sum.—Plant very E and plos much 
DL ish- ved occurs on stem and veins and especially along the bracts; glandu- 
lar-pubescence very short, with small capitate glands, continuing down the 
stem to the base; strigose MA AQUA e by lens on the upper leaves. 
Resembles A. multiformis, but t e plant smoother and paler, with more 
red and less vio iolet; leaves biens 2 and often dentate; braets narrower 
and more uniform; its colors neither sharp nor dull, but as if seen through a veil. 
A. macrophyllus L. Stem 6-9 s high, reddened, angular: radieal leaves 
developed in large eae usually 3 to each rootstock, larger and coarser than 
the pence shaped lower cauline jc (which are developed a subsequent 
year r from the same Eo uo blades broad, cordate with a large ir cies 
sinus, uh above, harsh, thick, the teet road, curved, somewhat cren 
upper stem-leaves with oblong blades il short br n winged petioles, ue 
ndu 
of the uppermost sessile, aeute: inflorescence strigose and gla ja bro adly 
corymbose, irregular: heads 15-30 mm. br iM idle iu VIE tiekish: 
ray-flowers about 12- 16; ligules 10-14 mm. long, chiefly 1 vender r, sometimes 
violet, or rarely pale: bracts ae green-tipped, the acu e, the 
inner elliptic, obtuse: disk turning reddish- A r. sterile 
