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Vol. III. 



i. Gaillardia lutea (.recnc. Yellow Gaillardia. 

 Fig- 4545- 



Gaillardia lutea Greene, Pittonia 5: 57. 1902. 



Stem roughish-puberulent or cinereous, usually branched. 

 1 2 high, the branches straight, nearly erect. Stem leaves 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, roughish-puberulent, acute 

 at the apex, narrowed to the base, 1-2' long, 2"-$" wide; 

 heads about 2' broad, peduncled ; bracts of the involucre about 

 equalling the yellow disk; rays 8-12, yellow; style-tips with 

 filiform hispid appendages; achenes villous at the base, or to 

 beyond the middle; fimbrillae of the receptacle short or none; 

 awns of the pappus slender. 



In dry woods, Missouri to Texas. July-Sept. Included, in our 

 Irst edition, in G. lanceolata Michx., of the Southern States. 



2. Gaillardia aristata Pursh. Great- 

 flowered Gaillardia. Fig. 4546. 

 Gaillardia aristata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 573. 1814. 



Perennial ; stem simple, or little branched, 

 hirsute or densely pubescent with jointed hairs. 

 l-3 high. Leaves firm, densely and finely 

 pubescent, the lower and basal ones petioled, 

 nfilong or spatulate, laciniate, pinnatifid or en- 

 tire, mostly obtuse, 2-5' long; upper leaves ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, or oblong, or slightly spatulate, 

 smaller, entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid ; 

 heads 1F-4' broad, long-peduncled ; bracts of 

 the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute; 

 rays 10-18, yellow; style-tips with filiform ap- 

 pendages ; fimbrillae of the receptacle mostly 

 longer than the achenes, which are villous at 

 least at the base. 



On plains and prairies, Minnesota to Saskatche- 

 wan, British Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico and 

 Oregon. Adventive eastward. Leaves sometimes 

 all basal. May-Sept. 



3. Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Showy 



Gaillardia. Fig. 4547. 



Gaillardia pulchella Foug 

 1786: 5. 1786. 



Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris 



Annual; diffusely branched at the base, the 

 branches ascending, 6' 15' high, or larger in 

 cultivation, more or less hirsute or pubescent 

 with jointed hairs. Leaves lanceolate, oblong, 

 or the lower spatulate, 13' long, entire, den- 

 tate or sinuate-pinnatifid, all but the lowest 

 sessile; heads i' 3' broad, long-peduncled. 

 bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hirsute or pubescent; rays 10-20, red or purple 

 at the base, yellow toward the apex ; style-tips 

 with filiform hispid appendages; fimbrillae of 

 the receptacle equalling or scarcely longer than 

 the achenes, which are more or less villous, 

 or glabrous. 



In dry soil. Nebraska and Missouri to Louisi- 

 ana, Mexico and Arizona. May-Sept. 



