inner bracts much narrower and longer than 
out Flowers whitish, the pistillate 
flowers marginal: corollas slender, truncate 
erfec 
numerous very long capillary bristles con- 
ereted at the base.—About 3 species, South 
American. 
1. F. apiculata Cass. Plant 2-20 cm. tall, 
lanate: Ps doi. eed spatulate t t8 linear, 
long: involuere nar 
bracts 5-7. o mm. long: achene pedi D. Saad ides ree waste- Db Coastal 
Plain and Piedmont, Fla., Ala., and Ga.—Nat. of S S. —Sum.—fal 
GIFOLA Cass. Annual, caulescent herbs uus xod: 
Pene alternate: blades narrow, entire. Heads discoid, in small dense, some- 
times diria clusters. Involucres nar- 
se : bracts scarious, in several series. 
ane en subulate to conie, chaffy. 
ers whitish, the pistilate marginal, fruit- 
producing, with filiform corollas and rudi- 
mentary or no pappus. Perfect flowers cen- 
tral, few, with tubular corollas and capillary 
pappus.  Anthers sagittate at the base. 
Achene terete or slightly flattened.—About 
10 species, in warm and temperate regions. 
an 
1. G. germanica (L.) peta Ms sil- 
very-p , 5-35 em. tall stem or 
branches usually proliferous UU leaves 
numerous, erect; blades lanceolate to linear, 1-2 cem. long, acute: involucre 
-3.5 mm. high; bracts ovate-lanceolate to age eee acumi PA ee 
cuspidate: achene about 0.8 mm. long.—(HERBA-IMPIA. meres -ROSE.)— 
fields Rie m -places, varions provinces, Ga. to N. Y.— of Eu.—Spr fall 
INOPSIS T. & G. Annual or sometimes un woolly 
herbs. po alternate: blades entire, commonly narrow. Heads in dense 
involuerate clusters, discoid. n agr 
broad: inner bracts longer than the outer (Qi le 
ones. Flowers whitish, the pistilate margi- 
nal, with filiform corollas. Perfect flowers 
few: corollas with a cylindraceous or nar- 
rowly funnelform throat and a narrow tube. 
appus wanting.—About 12 species, natives 
of warm and temperate regions. 
F. nivea Small. Plant 2-15 cm. tall, 
whitish: ed blades E to opu iic aA | 
late, 5-12 mm. long: bracts of the involucre WX 
bar arely 2 mm. ae or en pce pe as 
less than 1.5 mm. long. [Filago nivea 
1404 CARDUACEAE 
volueres ellipsoid to ovoid, few-flowered: | TR 
