‘8. Adenocaulon LHoox. 
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Involucres top-shaped , 
Terennial herbs with rootstccks and alternate amole leaves. 
discoid, small, sreenish, few, in diffuse panicles. 
their bracts in a single series, joined at the base, the receptacle flat. 
liarginal flowers pistillate, usually about 6, the central flowers sterile, 
naked, about the same in number. Achenes arranced in a spreading circlet, 
Clavate, obtuse, parnus none. 
le As bicolor Hook. ? An inconspicuous perenne herb 50-60 cn, tall, 
the leaves borne in tne lower axils, their blades deltoid, 5-10 cm. in alameter, 
vhe ar ex ana lobes rather optuse, cordate- truncate at the "base , coarsely 
sinuate- entate, the teeth 5-G mu. tall, tne upper surface glabrous green, the 
Lower ‘nite, covered With a dense felt-lixe vomentum, borne on mar:ined 
petioles as lon, as the blades or loner; 1GadS s@%pina diffuse glanuular 
and viscid panicle with slerdez oranchnes, their involucres herbaceous, 1-1.5 
mae tall; marginal flowers developins ir to a rotate series of 4-6 clavate 
achenes 7-S mn. lons at maturits, beset with stalked glands, the central 
flowers sterile, persistent. 
Abundant in moist shaded woods at lower elevations throu: hout our 
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