1388 CARDUACEAE 
acuminate, green tips: ray-flowers with Se ty preally white, but sometimes 
pink or pu rplish- tinged: pappus w vhite: achen E n. [A. ericoides pilos 
ae Porter, A. ericoides villosus (Michx.) T & G., A ericoides 2 s 
; G.]—Dry soil, various provinees, Ga. to Miss., Mo., Ia., and Pa. 
A. juniperinus Burg Stem robust, brittle, glabrous,. pale brown, 
abont 6 dm. high, the MEM numerous, prolonged, chiefly horizontal and 
arallel, sometimes dm. long: Erud leaves a -green; blades thin, linear- 
pae 10x1 em.; rameal Rica r leaves subulate Pu all nearly 
alike, wi ide e-spreading, juniper ME gr pu redue ed and very erous un 
crowded, diminishing rapidly on the elongate pedicels and eae ed 
into the small spreading green outer bracts of the broad sine een 
the other bracts longer and ou er, linear with triangular-ae iate summi it, 
coriaceous and very gees bright. pes exeept the broadly “deltoid, sharp- 
angled, green tip: heads nall: ligules of the ray white oe reddish- 
brown.—Loose sandy a in sunny ee es, variou s provi med Ala. to Md.— 
Late sum.—fall.—Unlike A. Faxoni in its tendene ey to divarieate, not Ps mbose, 
branching. Unlike its congener A. ramosissimus in its numerous heads solitary on 
long branches or branchlets. 
80. A. Faxoni Porter. Stem 6-15 dm. high, glabrous throughout, panieulately 
12 em. 
base or those of the lower ones into margined petioles, entire or nearly so, firm, 
those of E. Aes gradually smaller: basal leaves with elliptic to spatulate, 
o Ain e blades: heads eed mm. broad: involuere hemispherie, nearly 
8 m o br acts linear-lanceolate, acute or subulate, green-tipped or green 
on the back, imbrieate in about 3 PUR the outer shorter: ray-flowers ee dai 
S iru br ight- -white, 6-8 mm. du pappus white: achene minutely pubescent.— 
Rocky b pou nd m d Blue Ri ‘dge er more N provinces, s to 
Wis. Vt. and Mas Mn all.—4. ericoides Reevesii A. Gray is prob- 
ably best cone as the e Ms form of this s species 
81. A. Priceae Britton. Stem 3-7 dm. high, pubescent, widely cu ae 
basal leaves with oblanceolate obtuse or acutish pu petioled blades , 3-7 
, br 
long, the petioles VUE oad: e e relatively few; blades [em 
red ses An liate, acuminate, d hose bá the branches simila 
but s aller nce nearly ee about 6 m ugh; bracts linear, 
the m gradually acuminate, green, ae a little broader, abru uptly 
acuminate, acute, or obtusish: hezds abou em. broad: ray-flowers numer- 
ous; p bright Cnm: purple or pink E soil, Blue Ridge to Hn dm 
Plateau, N. C. to Ky.--Fal 
. dumosus L. Stem 3-9 dm. high, glabrous or very nearly so throughout, 
paniculately rea Tapi leaf-blades firm, those of the stem linear or linear- 
lanceolate, 2-7 em. long, entire, acute or obtusis roughly margined, often re- 
flexed, those of the branches s very numerous, sm mall and seale- like, those of the 
basal leaves spatulate, dentate: heads 8—14 mm. broad, terminating Ls usually 
"DNA slender brane hes and br jid usually num us: invo e broadly 
os ate; braets linear-subul appressed, imbrie about pA e 
obtus n type , with 2 Sn tips E ed at Ded Reis ray-flowers 15- 
30; ligules white (rarely pale-pink or pale-viole ae mm. long: pappus s white: 
achene A i escent.—Sandy woods or oe often acid, variou 
oe Fla. Mo., Ont., "m Me. “Lat —fall.—The following 
forms may be “distinguished A. poten UL more rigid 
long straggling DI: eads somewhat larger: rameal leaves s linear 
blades subulate at the x eid a nd sharp, even pungent, erect or slightly 
spreading: E acute, their narrow green braets laneeolate to a 
