CARDUACEAE 1401 
About 50 species, natives of the north temperate zone and southern South 
America.—Spr.— EVERLASTINGS. LADIES '-TOBACCOS. 
Heads corymbose or racemose: stolons more or less ascending and distantly leafy, 
their leaves gradually increasing in size towards the ends, with oblanceolate or 
spatulate blades. 
Pistillate heads 6-8 mm. hi igh : staminate Em 5-7 mm. high. 
Blades of the basal 1 leaves obovate or ov 1. A. P ous 
Blades of the basal leaves oblanceolate. 2. A. carolinia 
pee heads 9-12 mm. high: staminate heads 6-8 mm. 
Blades of the basal leaves broadest below the middle, 
ge subcoriaceous: pistillate heads rather long- 
peduncled, in age often racemose 
Er of the basal leaves mostly broadest above the 
m thin: pistillate heads  short-peduncled, 
orym 
Heads ouy. sions prostrate, their leaves, except those 
of e rmn rosette, with small or inconspicuous linear 
3. A. calophylla. 
4. A. fallax. 
D. A. solitaria. 
A. p inifolia (L.) Richards. Basal leaves 5-9 long; blades 
"de bises the petioles, 1.5—4 cm d oí floccose, but. in age radiate 
ate 
—Dry soil, various Dione Fla. pex 
Me. 
1 
rae and —Spr.—A. nemor h 
E Tenn. with thinner more rounded leaf -blades may Ms here; pistillate 
plant unknown. 
flowering stem of pistillate plants 6-20 em 
tall of the staminate Fe em. tall: pistil- 
late heads corymbose, 6-8 mm. high, floccose 
at the base; braets ERN lanceolate, acute, 
p 
A. decipiens Greene A. arkansana Greene] 
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2. A. caroliniana paige Basal leaves 4-8 em. long; blades often longer than 
the petioles, 1-2 cm. Le loosely nd but soon glabrate above, white- 
tomentose M oblanceolate, rounded to acutish at the apex, ciun ly 
tapering at the base, distine etly 3- ribbe d; blades of the stem-leaves linear- 
n : 
lanceolate, acuminate meis d. stem 1-1.5 dm. tall: he ads cuti ud e, Short- 
peduneled; the pistillate 6—7 m br fates den linear- lanceolate, 2 
greenish or brownish below whit at t ; Staminate heads 
tip; abou 
high, their braets yellowish, with clliptie, Girne. white tips.—Dry soil nm 
Plain and Piedmont, Ala. to S. C.—Spr. 
3. A. calophylla Greene. NS us leaves 5—10 cm. long: blades usually as 
long as the petioles, 2-5 em. long, loosely floceose above, but glabrate in age, 
finely and densel white-tomentose beneath, broadly ovate or all 
middle 
contracted at the base, subcoria aceous. in age, earn 3—5-ribbed: blades of 
es vA linear-lanceolate, acuminate: flow ing stems of pistillate plants 
3—4 all: h 0-12 mm high, corymb a r ften racem the 
peduncles 1-3 cm. 1 bracts of the involucre linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
he b at the tip: minate 
7-8 mm. high, dark-brown below, with elliptic or oval white tips.—Wooded hills, 
M n ‘provinces, La. (or Ga. 2) to Okla., Ill., and Ky.— ‘Spr. 
