1384 CARDUACEAE 
A. elodes T. & G. Stem up to 7 dm. tall, iid smooth, little-branched, 
a pale and reddened: leaf-blades nar rowly linear, entire, shinin ng and firm 
and coriaceous when dry, 5-15 cm. long, o ofte m. 
broad, scarcely elasping ba the contracted sessile Pu divaricately spreading 
and bec ing deflexed ; ealleaves very numerous, approximate, Ls -oval 
to loca "dana RE with abruptly contracted base and apex, dimin- 
ished to 1 em. long on the pedice els: leaves (especially the rameal) with their 
j j revolute: i 
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loosely panieled, with domed, flattened or irregular top: 2 often sd 
e; chief t i j ip 
; some poa sp 
foliaeeous outer bracts occur, they are usually few or inconspicuous.— 
oe BE in pine a Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, N. C. to 
Mass.—Sum.-fall. 
60. sericeus Vent. Stem 3-6 dm. ed slender, paniculately or corym- 
bo E. ier stiff, glabrous, leafy: basal and lowest ic pd oblanceolate, 
narrowed into margined pur eauline leaves sessile, with oad base, 
E entire, mucronate, m. long, erect or T with - ens silvery- 
white silky pubescence on p th ee : heads numer about mm. broad 
ee det braets elliptie, or the inner acute caeseen imbricate 
n3or4s , thei eir tips green, acute, spreading: ray- -flowers 15- 55; ligules 
reddish. violet, (ne ming violet-blue, 12-16 mm. long: Kien y achene 
gla — ry, open soil, various P dics N of Coastal Plain, Tenn. to 
Tex., Man and Ill—Late sum.-fal 
A. concolor L. Stem 3-7 dm. high, leafy, simple, or with few erect 
branches: leaf-blades eliptic or linear- -elliptie, pel and = a pr on 
both sides, or the lower glabrate, sessile, obtuse or mucr em. long: 
heads in an ao Bas raceme resemblin ae that of d a yov iniaria: 
involuere ped md braets linear or linear- Top. Bd d 
t rer 
imbricate i or 5s s, their tips Sor s the ou y-flow 
10-15; E lilac, pres violet-blue, 6-8 mm. long: pe a ptus denen 
villous br ry s andy, often acid, soil, Consta Plain and adj. provinees, Fla. to 
La., aide Mass.—Lat —fall.—Resembles A. sericeus, but more wand- 
, Ten e sum 
like and p and more canescent than silky. 
62. A. simulatus sedem Stem 2-15 dm d. wand-like or with few virgate 
branches, pale-pubescent, the branches, espec ally near the tips, villous-silky: 
leaf-blades linear- “elliptic to lanceolate or nee lanceolate, 1-2.5 mm. long or 
somewhat scale-like and smaller above, more or less silky, acu ute, ene sessile; 
heads in virgate racemes or panicles, ‘showy: involuere tu rbinate-c mpanulate: 
ri 
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0-13; ligules violet, 6-7 mm. long: Pappus whitish: achene RUN silky. — 
Pinelands, Everglade Keys, Fla.—Fall-v 
lumosus Sm Stem 1 m. tall or p ode above, finely pu- 
lad of the stem 
those above linear or nearly so, those of the branches linear-elliptie E lanceo- 
late, mostly 1 em. long or less, acute, all sessile, finely popes. on both sides: 
heads showy, in loos e racemes; in voluer e turbinate-campanulate s linear- | 
er 
da qa to narrowly ch unde pd gos: in several series, the in 
ds E. loosely spreading or reeurved green ti tip with copious 
6.5 
us ut hair ray- -flowers about 10; d violet, 7-8 mm. long; pappus 
tawny: achene silky -villous.—Dry woods, Apalachicola River dd Fla.—Fall. 
