CARDUACEAE 1405 
l.]—(PovERTY-WEED. RABBIT-TOBACCO.)—Dry plains or 7 soil, Coastal 
Plain and adj. provinces, Ga. to Tex. Naturalized E.—Spr.- 
53. INULA L. Perennial, often large, pale-pubescent herbs. Leaves 
alternate: blades broad, toothed, often clasping. Heads in open panicles or 
corymbs, ann long peduneles, usually showy.  Involuere hemispheric, 
very many-flowered: bracts, at least the outer ones broad, somewhat foliaceous. 
Ray-flowers numerous: corollas with a long tube and a narrow elongate yellow 
ligule. Disk-flowers numerous: corolla with narrowly funnelform throat 
above a narrow tube with a dilated base: 
lobes lanceolate. Anthers longer than the 
filaments. Achene columnar, ribbed. Pap- 
pus of several or many ecapilldry scabrous 
bristles.—About 90 species, Eurasi and 
African 
lenium L. Stem, 2 m. tall or less, 
te o 
oval, e inner m Lr about 2 em. long: ligules yellow, narrowly linear, 
2-3 em. long: achen ong, finely ribbed.—( ELECAMPANE. wo 
fencer -TOWS, d Adde, various province N of Coastal Plain, N. C. to Mo., Ont 
a N.S. Nat. of Eu—Sum 
54. VICOA Cass. Annual or perennial herbs with much-branched stems. 
Leaves alternate: blades narrow, shallowly toothed, at least the upper ones 
auricled at the ase and clasping. Heads several or numerous, often radiate, 
rather Ap led. Involucre hemispheric-campanu late, many-flowered: 
bracts very narrow, numerous ay-flowers few: eorolla with a very slender 
tube and a or rather n ligule. Disk- 
flowers numerous: corolla with a slender 
tube and an elongate cylindric throat: lobes 
triangular-lanceolate. Anthers longer than 
the filaments. Achene cylindric, not ribbed. 
Pappus of few capillary bristles—About 8 
species, Asiatic and African. 
l. V. auriculata C Annual, 1 m. tall 
r less, widely branched, finely pubescent 
a artly viscid ride e laneeolate to 
elliptic-lanceolate, - .1l 
0 
toothed: heads ones involuere 4—4.5 
acumin ate, sparingly P pubescent, ciliate: ligules yellow, rather ob- 
cuneate, about 3 m ong: achene about 0.8 mm. long, pubescent: pappus- 
