THISTLE FAMILY 1015 



and around dwellings: Que. — Va.— Calif. — B.C.; native of Eu.; escaped from 

 cultivation. Je-S. 



2. C. solstitialis L. Annual; stem much branched, 3-6 dm. high, canes- 

 cent; leaves decurrent on the margins of the stem, canescent, the lower pinnatifid 

 with oblong or ovate divisions, the upper entire and Unear; involucres round-urceo- 

 late, about 1 cm. high; bracts yellowish, ending in 3-5 spines; the central one of 

 the middle bracts very stout, 1-2 cm. long; corollas yellow. Waste places: Mass. 

 — N.Y. — la. — Ont.; Calif. — Utah; adv, from the Mediterranean region. Jl-S. 



Family 137. CICHORIACEAE. Chicory Family. 



Herbs with, a bitter or milky sap. Leaves mostly alternate, sometimes all 

 basal. Flowers all alike, hermaphrodite and fertile, in involucrate heads. 

 Involucres of 1-several series of bracts, sometimes subtended by a series 

 of smaller bracts (calyculum). Receptacle flat or nearly so. Corollas all 

 gamopetalous, split on one side part way down, the upper portion modified 

 into a strap-shaped ligule. Stamens 5; anthers united into a tube around 

 the pistil; sacs auricled or sagittate at the base, appondaged at the apex. 

 Style 2-cleft; branches filiform, naked, stigmatic only towards the base. 



A. Pappus none; achenes with corky pericarp. 1. Atrtchoseris. 



B. Pappus present. 



I. Pappus of plumose bristles, often more or less paleaceous at the base. 



Achenes truncate at the apex, not beaked. 



Flowers yellow; simple plants with fusiform roots. 2, Ptilocalais. 



Flowers pink, rose, or white; branched plants with rush-like stems. 



3. Ptiloria. 

 Achenes with long beaks. 

 Receptacle not chaffy. 



Involucres of 7-15 linear-acuminate eqtial bracts and smaller calyculate 

 ones at the base ; achenes obscurely ribbed ; branched annuals with pin- 

 natifid leaves. 4. Nemoseris. 

 Involucres of several lanceolate-attenuate herbaceous bracts; no calyculate 

 ones at the base; achenes 5-lO-ribbed; leaves grass-Uke and heads soH- 

 tary. 5. Tragopogon. 

 Receptacle chaffy. 6. Hypocheris. 



II. Pappus not plumose. 



a. Pappus consisting, at least partly, of squamellae or these reduced and imited 



into a crown. 



1. Involucres simple and naked, i. e., -without smaller calyculate ones below; 

 pappus of both squamellae and bristles; flowers yellow. 



7. ADOPOGON. 



2. Involucres double, either imbricate or with smaller calyculate ones below. 



Flowers blue; pappus cro\\m-like of small numerous blunt squamellae in 



2 or more series; tall perennials. 8. Cichorium. 



Flowers yellow; pappus of large squamellae; low annuals, acaulescent or 



nearly so. 

 Squamellae of the pappus 5, cleft at the apex with an awn in the notch; 



involucres calyculate. 9. Uropappus. 



Squamellae of the pappus 20-30, very narrow, linear-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing into a bristle-Uke apex; bracts nearly equal, in two series. 



10. NOTHOCALAIS. 



b. Pappus of capillary bristles, not plumose, slightly if at all broadened below. 



1. Achenes not flattened. 



a. Pappus-bristles promptly deciduous, mainly together, only a few of the 



stouter ones in some species remaining. 

 Achenes more or less narrowed into a beak. 



Achenes without a cup-shaped shoulder, not cancellate. 



Achenes 5-ribbed; main bracts scarious-margined ; receptacle 



bristly. 11- Calycoseris. 



Achenes lO-striate; bracts not scarious; receptacle not bristly. 



12. YOUNGIA. 



Achenes 5-ribbed. conspicuously cancellate-scuU>tured, with a cupu- 

 late shoulder, from which the slender, 5-ribbed hollow beak 

 arises. 13. Glyptoplura. 



Achenes not beaked, columnar, 5-15-ribbed, truncate af^the apex. 



Involucres of broad sjlvery-scarious bracts, regularly imbricate; 

 bristles of the receptacle persistent. 14. Malacolepis. 



Involucres of narrow acuminate or acute bracts, only shghtly scari- 

 ous-margined; bristles of the receptacle, if any, few and decidu- 

 ous. 15. Malacothrix. 



