COM POSIT A E. 1 1 1 



80. GAILLARDIA Foug- 



Branching or scapose, pubescent herbs, with alternate or basal leaves, and large 

 peduncled heads of both tubular and radiate flowers, or rays wanting. Involucre 

 depressed-hemispheric, or flatter, its bracts imbricated in 2 or 3 series, their tips 

 spreading or reflexed. Receptacle convex or globose, bristly, fimbrillate or nearly 

 naked. Rays cuneate, yellow, purple, or parti-colored, neutral or rarely pistillate, 

 3-toothed or 3-lobed. Disk-flowers perfect, fertile, their corollas with slender tubes 

 and 5 toothed limbs, the teeth pubescent with jointed hairs. Anthers minutely 

 sagittate or auricled at the base. Style-branches tipped with filiform or short 

 appendages. Achenes turbinate, 5 -ribbed, densely villous, at least at the base. 

 Pappus of 6-12 I -nerved awned scales, longer than the achene. [Named for M. 

 Gaillard de Marentonneau, a French botanist.] About 12 species, natives of the 

 U. S. and Mex., I in southern S. Am. 



Stem leafy; style-tips with filiform hispid appendages. 



Fimbrillae of the receptacle obsolete, or short ; southern. I. G. lanceolata. 



Fimbrillas subulate or bristle-like, mostly longer than the achenes. 



Rays yellow; fimbrillee exceeding the achenes. 2. G. aristata. 



Rays purple, or red at base; fimbrillae about equalling the achenes. 



3. G.pulchella. 

 Leaves basal; style-tips with short naked appendages; rays none, or few. 



4. G. snavis. 



1. Gailiardia lanceolata Michx. SWEET GAILLARDIA. (I. F. f. 3975.) 

 Annual, or perhaps perennial; stem puberulent with jointed hairs, or cinereous, 

 usually branched, 4-9 dm. high, the branches straight, nearly erect. Stem-leaves 

 sessile, spatulate or linear, entire or sparingly serrate, puberulent. ciliolate, acute 

 or obtusish and mucronulate at the apex, narrowed to the base, 3-7 cm. long, 4-8 

 mm. wide; basal leaves broader, very obtuse, sometimes short-petioled ; heads 3-5 

 cm. broad, long-peduncled; flowers sweet-scented; bracts of the involucre about 

 equalling the violet disk; rays 8-12, yellow or reddish with darker veins, rarely 

 none; achenes villous at the base, or to beyond the middle; awns of the pappus 

 slender. In dry woods, Kans. to Tex., east to S. Car. and Fla. May-Sept. 



2. Gailiardia aristata Pursh. GREAT-FLOWERED GAILLARDIA. (I. F. 

 f. 3976.) Perennial; stem simple, or little branched, hirsute, or densely pubescent 

 with jointed hairs, 3-9 dm. high. Leaves firm, densely and finely pubescent, the 

 lower and basal ones petioled, oblong or spatulate, laciniate, pinnatifid or entire, 

 mostly obtuse. 5-12 cm. long; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong, or slightly 

 spatulate, smaller, entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid; heads 4-10 cm. broad, 

 long-peduncled; bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute; achenes 

 villous, at least at the base. On plains and prairies, Minn, to the N. W. Terr., Br. 

 Col.. Kans., Colo, and N. Mex. Leaves sometimes all basal. May Sept. 



3. Gailiardia pulchella Foug. SHOWY GAILLARDIA. (I. F. f. 3977.) An- 

 nual; diffusely branched at the base, the branches ascending, 15-35 cm - high? or 

 larger in cultivation, more or less hirsute or pubescent with jointed hairs. Leaves 

 lanceolate, oblong, or the lower spatulate, 3-7 cm. long, entire, dentate or sinuate- 

 pinnatifid, all but the lowest sessile; heads 3-7 cm. broad, long-peduncled, bracts 

 of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute or pubescent; achenes more or less 

 villous, or glabrous. In dry soil, Neb. and Kans. to La., Mex. and Ariz. May- 

 Sept. 



4. Gailiardia suavis (A. Gray) Britt. & Rusby. RAYLF.SS GAILLARDIA. 

 (I. F. f. 3978.) Annual or biennial. Leaves in a basal tuft, or a few near the 

 base of the slender pubescent scape, spatulate or obovate in outline, 5-15 cm. long, 

 pinnntifid, dentate, or some of them entire; scape 3-6 dm. high, monocephalous; 

 head about 25 mm. broad, with the odor of heliotrope, globose in fruit: rays none, 

 or short and pistillate, or a few of them longer and neutral; bracts of the involucre 

 oblong or lanceolate, sparingly pubescent; fimbrillae of the receptacle obsolete; 

 achenes densely villous; pappus-scales broad, their awns very slender. In dry 

 rocky soil, Kans. to Tex, April-June. 



