Lessirujia. COMPOSITiE. iGl 



beueath : outer bracts of the involucre ovate or oblong, and tlie inner linear : rays 15 to 20 : 

 disk-flowers 8 to 12. — Mant. 114; Ait. Kcw. iii. 214; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 226. S. ijramini- 

 foUa, Ell. Sk. ii. 391. C/iri/socoma gruminifolia, L. Spec. ii. 841. Ei(th<imla graminifolia, Nutt. 

 Gen. ii. 162 (subgeu.), & Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. — Low ground, Canada to Georgia, and 

 nortliwest to Montana. 

 S. tenuifolia, Puksu. Lower (a foot or two high), slender, more I'csinous-atoniiferous 

 and glutinous, but glabrous : leaves all narrowly linear, one-nerved or with a pair of indis- 

 tinct lateral nerves: heads smaller: rays 6 to 12 : disk-llower.s 5 or 6. — Fl. ii. 540; Ell. Sk. 

 ii. 392; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. S. lanceolata, var. minor, Miclix. Fl. ii. 116. Erujeron Carolini- 

 anum, L. Spec, being Virfjaurea Carol., &c.. Dill. Elth. 412, t. 306, f. 394. Euthamia tenui- 

 folia, Nutt. 1. c. — Sandy or gravelly and moist or dry ground, coast of New England to 

 Florida and Texas. 



S. leptocepliala, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two higli, with more simple branches, wholly 

 sniiiutli and glabrous except the margin of the leaves; these with prominent midrib, very 

 obscure lateral nerves, and no apparent veins : bracts of the involucre and the head narrower : 

 rays 8 or 10 : disk-flowers 3 or 4. — Fl. ii. 226. — Low ground, W. Louisiana and Texas; 

 first coll. by Leavenworth and Dnimjiwiid. Also, in a narrow-leaved form, N. W. Arkansas, 

 F. L. Harvey. 



§ 3. Chrysoma, Torr. & Gray. Suffruticose : leaves fleshy-coriaceous, peculi- 

 arly areolate-veuulose iu the dried state: otlierwise as § Virgaurea. — Chrysoma, 

 Nutt., in part. 



S. pauciflosculosa, Miciix. A foot or two high, much branched from the shrubby base, 

 glabrous, somewhat viscid : loaves from spatulate-oblanceolate to linear, very obtuse, entire, 

 an inch or two long and with a contracted petiole-like base, one-nerved or obscurely 3-uerved, 

 not venose, but minutely and uniformly venulose, the impressed veiulets forming microscopic 

 quadrate or roundish meshes over both surfaces : thyrsus somewhat corymbosely paniculate ; 

 the clusters only obscurely secund : heads 3 or 4 lines long : rays 1 to 3, rather large : disk- 

 flowers 3 to 5, deep yellow: akenes pubescent: pappus brownisli. — Fl. ii. 116; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. ii. 224. Chrysoma solidar/iiioides, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Pliilad. vii. 67, & Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. vii. 325. — Dry hills and sand-bauks on the sea-shore, S. Carolina to Florida and 

 Alabama; flowering late. (Baliamas.) 



33. BRACHYCH^TA, Torr. & Gray. (B.oaxi^'s, short, xa'Vr/, bristle, 

 from the very abbreviated setose pappus, which, with the cordate leaves, some- 

 wliat artificially di8tin<:;uislies the genus from Solidago.) — Single species, flower- 

 ing in late summer and autumn. — Fl. ii. 194. 



B. cordata, Tour. & Gray, 1. c. Soft-pubescent : stems 2 or 3 feet higli from a perennial 

 root : leaves membranaceous, veiny, mostly acutely serrate ; radical ratlier large, round- 

 cordate, on long and nearly wingless petioles ; cauline ovate, the lower on winged petioles : 

 heads 2 or 3 lines long, narrow, solitary or fascicled in the racemiform and secund clusters 

 or narrow thyrsus : bracts of the involucre with greenish tips, inner ones linear-oblong : 

 flowers golden yellow, those of the disk and short ray each 4 or 5 : pappus shorter than the 

 akene and shorter than the proper tube of the corolla. — Solidago sphacelata, Raf. Ann. Nat. 

 (1820), 14. S. cordata. Short, Cat. PI. Kentucky, Suppl. Brachyris ovatifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 

 313. — Open woods, &c., W. North Carolina and E. Kentucky to the upper part of Georgia; 

 apparent]}' first coll. l)y Rajiiifisrjiie. 



34. LESSfNG-IA, Cham. (Dedicated to the eminent German author, 

 G. E. Lessing., and to his grand-nephews, Karl Leasing the painter, and Christian 

 Ft. Lessing, author of Syn. Gen. Compositarum. ) — Californian annuals or bien- 

 nials, flocculent-woolly when young ; with alternate leaves and rather small heads 

 of flowers, either of the xanthic or cyanic series ; the pappus becoming fuscous 

 or rufous. Nerves of the corolla-lobes deeply intramarginal, the aistivation indu- 



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