236 COMPOSITE, (composite family.) 



involucre oblong-linear; rays wedge-shaped, palmatcly 3-lobed ; ovary wingless, 

 with hispid margins. — River-banks, South Carolina and Georgia. September. 

 — Stem 20-3° high. 



->-+-•>- Rays purple or rose-color. 



16. C. nudata, Nutt. Smooth; stem slender, forking above; leaves al- 

 ternate, distant, terete, and rush-like ; ray,s bright purple, 3-toothed ; achenia witii 

 lacerated wings, 2-awned. — Pine-barren ponds, Florida and Georgia, near the 

 coast. April. — Stem 2° high. Lowest leaves 1° long. Rays 1' long. 



17. C. rosea, Nutt. Smooth; stem low, branching; leaves opposite, lin- 

 ear ; heads small ; rays slightly 3-toothed ; achenia wingless, unawned. — 

 Swamps, Georgia, iVu««//, and northward. July and August. — Stem 8'- 12' 

 high. Rays rose-color. 



18. C. CEmleri, Ell. Leaves broad-lanceolate, sessile, acute at each end, 

 entire ; jieduncles axillary and terminal, dichotomously corymbose. — Collected 

 near the junction of the Broad and Saluda Rivers by Mr. CEmler. Elliott. — 

 Stem 2° -3° high, angular, smooth. Leaves connate by a small membrane. 

 Heads small. Rays about 8, entire. Achenia wedge-shaped, slightly 2-toothed 

 and margined. ( * ) 



51. COSMOS, Cav. 



Scales of the involucre more or less united. Achenia terete or 4-angled, nar- 

 rowed or beaked at the apex, and crowned with 2-4 downwardly barbed or 

 hispid deciduous awns. Otherwise like Coreopsis. — Leaves opposite, pinnately 

 divided. Disk yellow. Rays purplish. 



1. C. eaudatUS, Kunth. Smooth ; leaves bipinnately divided, with the 

 divisions lanceolate and entire ; achenia ( 1 ' long) tapering into a very long rough 

 beak, 2-awned ; rays short, 3-cleft, rose-color. — Key West, Florida. 



52. BIDENS, L. Beggar-ticks. 



Chiefly like Coreopsis ; but the exterior involucre often long and leaf-like ; 



the achenia compressed, or 3 -4-angled, (not narrowed at the apex,) and crowned 



with 2-4 persistent downwardly barbed or hispid awns. — Leaves serrate, or 



pinnately divided, opposite. Rays yellow or white, often wanting. Disk 



yellow. 



* Achenia flattened, harrou-li/ wedge-shaped. 



1. B. frondosa, L. Stem tall, branched ; leaves thin, long-pctioled, pin- 

 nately 3 - 5-divided ; the divisions ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrate ; heads discoid ; exterior scales of the involucre large, leafy ; achenia 

 2-awned. — Low ground, Florida and northward. July - Sept. ® — Stem 

 2° - 5° high. Margins of the achenia upwardly ciliate. 



2. B. COnnata, Muhl. Stem low, branched ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, coarsely serrate, tapering and connate at the base, the lowest often 

 3-parted ; heads discoid ; exterior involucre leafy ; achenia 2 - 4-awned, with 

 downwardly hispid margins. — "Western districts of Georgia and westward, in 

 damp soil. July - Sept. ® — Stem 10-2° high. 



