COMPOSITE. 245 



roundish and obtuse lobes: heads numerous, paniculate-cymose : ligules commonly longer 

 than broad : pappus a pair of short-subulate erect or at length spreading awns. Xov Gen. 

 & Spec. iv. 2GO, t. 391 ; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 103. P. incanum & P. ramosissimum, DC. Prodr. 

 v. 532. Dry hills, W. Texas to Arizona. ( Mex.) 



P. argeritatum, GRAY. Suffrutescent, a foot high, silvery-cauescent with close tomentum : 

 brandies erect, rather leafless above, bearing comparatively large and few heads (of 2 lines 

 in diameter) : leaves lanceolate to spatulate in outline, some entire or iuciscly 2-;>toothed ; 

 the larger incisely pinuatirid into 2 to 7 acute lateral lobes: pappus a pair of lanceolate 

 chaffy awns. Bot. Mex. Bound. SO. S. W. borders of Texas, Biyelow. (Aclj. Mex., 

 Parry, Palmer. Produces a gum or resin in Mexico.) 



* * * Perennial herb, with larger beads and leaves; the latter undivided, thickish. 

 P. integrifolium, L. Stout, 1 to 3 feet high, minutely pubescent, corymboscly branched 

 above, the branches terminated by a dense cyme of many heads (these a quarter-inch high) : 

 leaves ovate-oblong or narrower, thickly creuatc-dcntate, rarely doubly dentate or somewhat 

 incised, hispidulous-scabrous, prominently veiny from a strong midrib; radical a foot or 

 more long and tapering into a petiole ; upper cauline closely sessile and broad at base : pap- 

 pus a pair of small chaffy teeth or scales. Spec. ii. 988 (Dill. Elth. t. 225 ; Pink. Aim. t. 53 

 & 219) ; Lam. 111. t. 7CG ; Willcl. Hort. Berol. t. 4 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Dry ground, Mary- 

 laud to Illinois and Texas. 



2. BOLOPIIYTUM, Torr. & Gray. (BoIopJn/ta, Nutt.) Ligule wanting, the 

 corolla being reduced to a truncate tube, which is obscurely notched at back and 

 front : acaulescent cespitose perennial. 



P. alpinum, TOUR. & GRAY, 1. c. Densely tufted on a thick branching caudex, depressed, 

 rising only an inch or two high : leaves crowded, silvery-canesceut with a fine appressed 

 pubescence, and villous in the axils, spatnlate-linear, barely inch long, entire : heads solitary 

 and nearly sessile among the leaves : pappus a pair of oblong-lanceolate membrauaceous 

 scales. I3o!o]Jiyla alpina, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. u. ser. vii. 347. Bocky Mountains 

 in Wyoming (at 7,000 feet), on rocks near the Three Buttes, Nuttall. 



76. PARTHENICE, Gray. (nap0ev4 a poetical form of the word 

 from which the name of the preceding nearly related genus is derived.) PI. 

 Wright, ii. 85; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 352. Genus of a single species, allied 

 also to the succeeding genus. 



P. mollis, GRAY, 1. c. Annual, with odor and savor of Artemisia, 4 to 6 feet high, panicu- 

 lately branched, minutely puberulent-cinereous throughout, wholly destitute of any coarser 

 pubescence: leaves membranaceous, all alternate, ovate, some of the larger (as much as 10 

 or 12 inches long) subcordate, acuminate, irregularly or doubly dentate, loug-petioled : heads 

 small (2 lines broad), numerous in loose axillary and terminal somewhat leafy panicles, 

 mostly pedicellate : flowers greenish-white. Hillsides and along streams, S. Colorado to 

 Arizona, Wrigtit, Thurber, Lemmon, &c. Fl. autumn. 



77. IV A, L. (An unexplained name.) -- American herbs or shrubs ; with 

 entire or dentate or dissected leaves, at least the lower ones opposite, and small 

 spicately or racemosely or paniculately disposed or scattered and commonly 

 nodding heads : fl. summer. -- Lam. 111. 7GG; Goertn. Fruct. t. 164; DC. Prodr. 

 v. 529. Iva. & Cydachcena (Fresen.), Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 285 ; Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 352. 



1. CYCLACH^ESTA. Heads naked-paniculate, inconspicuously bracteate : co- 

 rolla of the 5 fertile flowers a very short rudiment or none : leaves membranaceous, 

 from incisely serrate to dissected, mostly petioled : flowers somewhat inclined to 

 polygamo-dioecious through abortion of the ovaries : annual herbs. Cyclachcena, 

 Fresen. Ind. Sem. Hort. Franc. 1836, & Linn. xii. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 285. 



