98 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
rays 5 to 8, 5 to 7 cm. long, 1 mm. thick, 1 to 3 times 
~ dichotomous; leaves oblanceolate below to lanceolate above, 
5 to 10 em. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, obtuse or acute, sessile, 
but tapering at the base, entire, pinnately veined, white 
pilose beneath or glabrate, inclined to be in groups along 
the stem; umbel leaves shorter, ovate oblong, often cordate 
at base; floral leaves broadly ovate, very obtuse or retuse, 
cordate or truncate at the base, glabrous, 2 to 3 em. wide, 
1.5 to 2.5 em. long; involucre 3 to 4 mm. high, pubescent 
or glabrous outside, more or less pubescent inside; lobes 
obovate or obcordate, incurved, ciliate, with a few lateral 
nerves; glands irregularly reniform, 2 mm. wide, 1 mm. 
long; bracts broad, fimbriate and ciliate, adnate to the in- 
volucre below, sometimes more than 5; stamens about 15; 
filament twice the length of the anther ; capsule subglobose, 
6 to 8 mm. high, 7 to 9 mm. wide, covered with short 
warts or almost smooth when mature; styles free or slightly 
united at base, 2 mm. or more long, short bifid above ; stig- 
mas short clavate; seeds ovoid or depressed globose, 3 to 4 
mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, smooth or with a few scat- 
tering irregular ridges, flattened at the chalaza, color 
brown; caruncle depressed conical; raphe prominent. — 
Southeastern Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Not com- 
mon. — Plate 15. 
Specimens examined from Pennsylvania (Darlington, West Chester, 
1819, 1827, 1845; Rothrock and Clarke, Center Co.; Green, Mercersburg, 
1847; Porter, Mercersburg, 1850-51; Canby, Amedale, 1866, Chester Co., 
1864); New Jersey (Lippincott, Swedesboro, 1894); West Virginia 
(Millspaugh); North Carolina (Curtis, Yancey or Haywood Co., 1844; 
Riigel, Blue Ridge, 1841; Vasey, 1878, 1881). 
Also reported from south of New Garden, Delaware (Tatnall, Cat. 
Pl. Newcastle Co., Del. 65. 1860); Mts. Md. and Va. (Pursh, Flora 
Amer. 2:607. 1814); New York (Brit. & Brown, Ill, Flora 22378. 
1897). 
E. HIBERNA Linn. A smaller plant than the latter, with ovate lanceolate 
floral leaves and more verrucose capsules, is given as a ballast plant in 
the Torrey Bot. Club Cat. of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta reported as 
growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York City 87. 
1888; and at Philadelphia (Martindale, Bot. Gaz. 2:58. 1876). 
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