CARDUACEAE 1475 
1. E. coccinea (Sims) Sweet. Plant moderately slender, mostly 1-8 dm 
tall: leaf- bd rather p those of the lower leaves spatula, those of 
the upper leaves lanceolate to linear, 
S. A.)—AI 3 
. E. sonchifolia (L.) DC. Plant very 
slender, 1-5 dm. tall: leaf-blades spatulate 
in ou utline below, e laneeolate to elliptie, 
all aurieled at the base, the lower narrowed 
to a wing-like edo between the E s / 
and the aurieled base, all sinuate-dentat i 
Tea n atifid: heads long-pedune elod: m braets linear, 8-10 mm. 
ong: e 7-8 m ong: achene 3 mm. long.—Cult. grounds, w aste- iod 
fields, d ae ie Fla. and Florida Keys. Nat. of O. W. trop.— 
., Mex., C. A., S. A.) 
118. GYNURA Cass. Annual or perennial, rather coarse herbs or 
subshrubs. Leaves alternate; vd entire, toothed, pinnatifid or pinnately 
parted. eads solitary to many. Involuere campanulate or eylindrie, with 
several subtending bractlets: bracts flat. Heads diseoid. Corollas yellow or 
Much e to red, with a long, narrow Eun form throat, and triangular or ovate 
Achene terete, 5-10-ribbed. Pappus copious, 
white.—About 20 species, natives of Asia, 
Africa, East Indies, and Australia. 
acres (Blume) DC. Plant up 
se: the ‘i i . * 
rowly linear to filiform; nooner 10-15 mm. high: corollas yellow-orange: 
achene pubeseent.—( VELVET-PLANT.)—Pinelands, roadsides and waste-places, 
S pen. Fla. Nat. of E. I. OF. I.)—Spr. 
119. MESADENIA Raf. Perennial, somewhat leafy herbs. Leaves 
alternate: blades undulate, toothed, or somewhat lobed. Heads in corymb- 
like clusters but centrifugal. Involucre cylindric to cylindrie-ovoid: bracts 
sometimes winged or keeled. Flowers white or pinkish; disk-corollas with 
linear or linear-lanceolate lobes longer than the p throat. ila- 
ments filiform. Achene ribbed, glabrous. [Cacalia L. in part]—About 30 
species, North Ameriean.—Sum. or Spr.-fall S.—INDIAN- ae INS. 
Bracts of the involucre wingless 
Leaf- ue pedately or digitately veined, those of the lower leaves wider than 
lon I. RENIFORMES. 
