1430 CARDUACEAE 
voluere api dp outer bracts herbaceous, 
membranous. Ray-flowers pistil- 
we pes yellow, — e Disk-flowers 
i corollas with a very short tube, a 
g roat 
lon nd toid lobes. Anthers 
much ; nger than the filaments. A 
various, those of the ray 3-angled, those of 
are often accompanied by awns.—One species. 
1. P. glauca Ort tega. Stem mostly 1 m 
tall or less, glaucous: leaf-blades 3-ribbed, 
1 dm. long or shorter on the upper n a 
the stem, those of the lower cauline lea 
ovate-lanceolate or need ovate, ley toothed, those of the upper MT 
21 bud lanceolat or narrowly lanceolate, repand or entire: involuere 
1.5-2 wide; br dcus lanceolate to linear, the larger ones > 15 mm. long: 
ligules of the ray- -flowers bright-yellow, 1-1. 5 em. long: achene 5-6 mm. xt — 
Waste-places and roadsides, coast of N Fla. Nat. of Chile —BSpr.-fall. 
77. BORRICHIA Adans.  Fleshy, maritime, erect herbs or shrubs. 
Leaves opposite: blades thick, entire, or toothed. Heads erect, on stiff 
peduncles. Involuere hemispheric or flattish: bracts fleshy or leathery. Ray- 
flowers yellow, fe Disk-eorolas with a cylindrie-funnelform throat and a 
very short tube: lobes eciliate. Free portions of the filaments much longer 
than the corolla-tube. Pappus crown-like.—AÀbout 5 species, American.— 
SEA OX-EYES 
Outer bracts of the involucre spreading or reflexed at neu per RS the 
ed. 
dui Mud pipe d B. frut ns. 
Outer bract the involucre appressed at maturity: bractlets 
of the Scccptacie obtuse or barely mucronate. 2. B. arborescens. 
1. B. eb n DC. Plant 2-7 ~ tall: leaf-blades linear-spatulate 
to obov long: outer bracts of the involucre acute, the inner 
ones he imer) —Shores, sand- N 
prairies, and salt-marshes, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. to Tex. and S Va.—(W. I., $.)— 
Sum.-fall, or all year S. 
2. B. arborescens (L.) DC. Plant 2-12 
dm. tall: leaf-blades e or spatu- 
n 
late-oblanceolate, 3— r braets 
0 e involuere iut , the i ones 
rounded he apex.—Shores, sand-dunes, 
and low waste hammocks, an 
Fla. Keys.—(W. I. Mex., C. A., S. A.)— 
All year.—This species is much more variable 
a the preceding one. The plants become 
ery robust and succulent in strictly saline 
jocos The foliage various from glabrous 
and glossy green to densely pale silky-canese he glabrous form has been 
described as B. glabrata Small and may be Du distinet from the pub- 
escent and larger tori 
