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CARDUACEAE 1445 
[Actinomeris alternifolia (L.) D C. |—Rieh 
woods, moist thickets, and roadsides, various 
provinces, Fla. to La., Ia., and N. J. 
paniculata (Walt. Small. Plant 
6-24 dm. tall: leaf-blades pio: to elliptie 
or i. elliptic, 8—31 long: disk- 
corollas 4 mm. long: sence bode with 
toothed wings. Athanasia paniculata 
Walt.]—Alluvial soil, Coastal Plain, Fla. 
to La. and S. C. — The typieal habitat of 
these species is the alluvial flood-plains of 
creeks and river. There e plants grow very 
tall and in donee colonie 
. SYNEDRELLA Gaertn. Annual, pubescent, erect herbs. Leaves 
opposite: blades usually toothed. Heads E i Involucre simple, nar- 
row, several-flowered, with 1 or 2 herbaceous 
ud several chaffy bracts. Ray-flowers few: 
corolla with a very. slender tube and a yel- 
low ligule. Disk-corollas with a cylindra- 
ceous throat and a slender tube nearly or 
quite as long: lobes broad. Filaments much 
shorter than the linear anthers oo us of 
2 3 awns becoming lon than the 
OR in the disk.— Two BN tropical 
American. | 
1. S. nodiflorà (L.) Gaertn. Plant 3-8 
dm. tall: e a 2E to elliptie, 5—10 
em. long, petiole-like bases 
ie ciliate: poses mm. high; larger bracts narrow: disk-corollas 
out 4 long: achene 4-5 mm. long, those of the ray elliptic, with 
m um bristles, on of the disk columnar or clavate.—Sandy soil 
jm Mis ae Fla. Nat. of t trop. Am.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A., O. W.)— 
l yea 
a. CALYPTOCARPUS Less. Annual, v erect, herbs. Leaves 
opposite: blades toothed. Heads inconspicuous radiate. Involuere several-flow- 
ered: bracts various, with 3 herbaceous and several pm Ray-flowers few: 
corolla with a tube shorter than the yellow ligule. Disk-corollas with a funnel- 
form throat and tube: lobes narrow. Anthers somewhat longer than the fila- 
ments. Pappus of 2 or 3 awns with a rim at the base.—The following species: 
Involueral bracts not ciliate: leaf- blades abruptly tapering at 
the cuneate or subcordate base, broadest below the middle. 1. C. vialis. 
mo bracts long-ciliate: leaf- blades long-tapering to a : 
eate base, broadest above the middle 2. C. blepharolepis. 
LE vialis Less. Stem 1—4 dm. long, branched at the base, the branches erect 
or prostrate: leaf-blades ovate, 1—3 em. long, serrate, the petiole-like bases 
