CARDUACEAE 1389 
ranging in pinelands and copse borders from Fla. to Tex. and S. C.: A. dumosus 
sirictior, with few ascending branches often aggregated above: leaf-blades 
acuminate and entire, ranges in m thickets from Tenn. to Mass 
83. A.coridifolius Miehx. Resembles 4. dumosus, but the stem more rigid, dif- 
fusely decompound with slender flagellate brane hes and branchlets; cauline 
leaves as in A. dwmosus; rameal and ramular leaves uniform, and minute, 
greatly and abruptly reduced from the eauline, spreading or divarieate or 
reflexed, linear, usually not over 1 em. long, und pedes crowded ind braet- 
like, giving the pla id its Dora ride aspect: heads small, many of them 
solitary on prolonged branehlets: braets of s mE more rigid, obtusish, 
their tips broad-spatulate, rounded and then s — Pinelands and sandy 
barrens, Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, Fla. to La. and Mass.—Sum.-fall. 
84. A. gracilipes (Wiegand) Alexander. Stem 3-8 dm. tall, glabrous or nearly 
so, with erect- A uir P and cda leaf-bla des firm, di of the 
15 e o and r 
stem narrowly li 2— ng, entire ough- n So he ma PaL 
usually enrolled: oes of the 1 ong, spreading Dr Hes not very n rous, 
but short, erect or appressed, aeute or aeu dau those of the Ded ace es ere 
late, often sparingly dentate: heads 10-15 Grad. solitary at the ends of 
the long branchlets, fairly numerous: inv Sucre broadly e ampa soe bracts 
linear-spatulate, appressed, acute or acutish with spatulate green B TON 
flowers 14-20; Li white, or rarely pale- nt p br 5-7 mm. long: 
appus stramineo achene sparingly pubescent arly ae [ A. 
dumosus m "Wiegand, —Pinelands, sandy poete od moist places, Fla. 
(to La.?).— 
85. A. Apu L. Stem 3-20 dm. high, strict, much branched and bushy, 
the branches ending or spre eading: leaf-blades rigid, linear, entire, mostly 
obtuse, sessile c Or r slightly clasping at the base, strigose or glabrate, those of 
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mm. high; br acts coriaceous, pubescent, in 3 0 series, their short green T? 
obtuse or mucronate, spreading: ray- Bone 10- 20; [pra white, 38—4 mm. long: 
pappus becoming brownish-white: achene puberulent E mu E 1: — 
Dry, open plaees, various provinees, Ga. to Tex., S. Dak ate 
sum.—fall. 
86. A. brachypholis Small. Stem 5-6 dm. high, finely p ere e 
above, with few, spreading branches: leaf-blades thin and fragile is the 
entire plant: those of the stem linear, fairly numerous, 2-7 em ae blades 
entire, those of the branchlets exce edingly numerous, mostly reflexed, acute, 
those of the basal leaves narrowly d piae dentate: heads 8- 10 mm. 
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broad, secund on long, P eading b s, nume ere bei cam- 
panulate: braets linear, very shor t Qo Joger t han a e , achene es), 0.5-1 mm 
long, obtuse, ciliate, ern green tips flowers about 12: ligules ane or 
whitish, 3—4 mm. long: disk- SAM "ees purple: oh white: achene 
elliptic, pubescent, about 1 mm. long.—Wooded slopes, often on damp rocks, 
Apalachicola, River bluffs, Fla. ga ll. 
87. A.racemosus Ell. Stem Em ten Rom T E bed -pubescent on 
the aseending rather slender branches: leaves firm; blades linear or nearly so, 
relatively small, acute, the upper aa heads not i nons racemosely 
j ow 
1 lu mm. high; bracts firm, subulate to narrowly lin 
acuminate: ray-flowers few; ligules purplish, 2-3 mm. long: achene nbl. 
and S. C.— 
pubescent.—Beaches and sandy woods, Coastal Plain, Fla. to i 
Sum.—fall. 
