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suddenly acute, the tips a. S short, incurved-triangular-aculeate. 
—On “balds,” i n ux de, dos of rich woods, Blue Pu d feudi 
N Provinces, g. c. N. Y. Quit e common and rather showy.— 
Fall. 
A. linguiformis Burgess. Small racemose plants with little ere or cor- 
on y soft thin texture, tending to great a of elongate linguiform 
leaves, partly with usd dup winged pd and the upper ones sessile by 
a broad a — base; stem 4— Ta . Righ, minutely B only; leaves ene 
to be remarkably e entir and o , sage-green, closely approximate; radica 
few, narrowly Se eee E slightly ed with rather long sle ps 
petiol es; lower caulines lance-elliptie, 7 x 2 em. or less, abruptly rounded and 
obtuse oe p and apex, often surpassed Py ms d dn petiole; other eaulines 
and branch-leaves sessile-auriculate, prolonged linear-oblong or pan sues te- 
elliptie, pom rounded-truneate at apex; axiles Daear: aeutish: inflorescence 
usually a loose and nearly simple raceme with small distinct long- pedicelled 
arly 
heads: bracts of the involucre lax, linear, acute, "the Eee tips rhomboid.— 
—Fal 
Dry, fertile thickets, near J acksonville, Fla.— Sum. 
33. A. loriformis s Plant rough, with but ae ceed ony Na ? 
with stra ap-like leaves seldom developing petioles or eordat : stem. somewhat 
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traight from a s ela 
minutely and closely erose, occasionally gashed with a few coarse remote blunt 
ne A pie petioles slightly e though often a few lower leaves 
lope into rap-like petiole; radicals apt to be oval-elliptic, with little or no 
sordation; “upper eaulines an nd e eee acutish, more contracted 
the bas s in A. corrigiatus, the inflorescence is tall and aaa the heads 
ain than "n A. undulatus and ue ligu E es of the ray a more blue-purple: 
braets of the i olncie narrower, the green tips diamond- (oan or lanceolate. 
[A. undulatus loriformus urgess|——Sand-ba rrens, Coastal Plain and adj. 
provinces, Fla. to Ala. and Mass.— 
Mohrii Burgess. ips d pd and pi upon d pep with very 
nak ushy inflorescence: ough, rigid, w any small dark eapitate 
 slender-stalked red non pue strigose pu anus of the latter are 
iseid, becoming broken down and irregularly D dm d blades long, nar- 
rowly lin and = ass-like, thickish, harsh, of uniform breadth, minutely 
rugulose above, n slightly acute; petioles s obscure, arene or winged; occasional 
radieal or basal leaves are shorter, broader, apa ie cordate-lanceolate, and 
at the slightly poss base are contraeted into a pd petiole; with 
but obscure or rare sinus and amplexieaul ae axile Ms and rameal 
chiefly linear-oblong, Apu by a broad base: heads small, long- ps 
(5-7 em.) raeemosely compounded: bracts of m pe cre linea iptic, 
acute, green-tips prominent, lance-elliptic: ligules e ray reddish- Tue 
12-15 or less. [A. Baldwinii f T. & G.]—Sandy soil, noe Plain, Fla. to La. 
and Ga.—Fall.—Fine strigose tomentum extends down the pedun cles and pon 
of the stem. Represents the extreme atcha dm of the A. undulatus types. 
35. A. puniceus L. Stem 9-25 dm. b usually stout, nd prin] 
eorymbosely or racemosely prone abov , his ispid with ri igid hai ing fro 
a eens! a base: leaf-blades Bu ciis to elliptic- lanceolate 7- 15 
ud 5 ng, a 
minate, sessile and clasping by a broad or narrowed base, sharply 
BOE ome upper ones entire), d very iia above, fae vrs on the 
midrib beneath: heads generally nume 2-4 em. broad: involucre nearly 
hemispheric; bracts linear or elliptic, ee ines in about 2 series, 
