352 COMPOSIT.E. Gaillardia. 



* More or less pubescent or hirsute with many-jointed hairs, leafy-stemmed : leaves not coriaceous : 

 bracts of the involucre (at least the outer and larger) mainly foliaceous and spreading, la ceo- 

 late or narrower: disk-flowers apt to turn brown or dark-purple: villous hairs covering the 

 akene mainly at its base or below the broad summit: paleaj of the pappus slender-awned. 



H— Fimbrilke of the receptacle obsolete or reduced to very short soft teeth : corolla-lobes caudately 

 acuminate from a short bioadish base. 



Gr. lanceolata, Micux. Minutely or somewhat ciuereously pubescent, not hirsute, about 

 2 feet high from an auuual or perhaps perennial root, virgately branched: leaves rather 

 small, from spatulate-lauceolate to linear, entire or slightly or sparsely serrate : outer bracts 

 of the involucre lax and herbaceous to the base : i-ays rather few and sparse, half or two- 

 thirds inch long, 3-cleft into narrow lobes and with slender tapering base, sometimes obsolete 

 or wanting : flowers sweet-scented : the disk commonly dark and the rays yellow or copper- 

 colored with dark veins. — Fl. ii. 142; Gray, 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 365, not DC. 

 Galardia bicolor, Pursh, Fl. ii. 572 (excl. syn. <and it cannot bo LejjSKra Caroliniana, Walt.) ; 

 Nutt. 1. c; Ell. Sk. ii. 449. Poli/pteris intefjn'Jhlia, DC. Prodr. v. 659, excl. syu. — Dry pine 

 barrens, S. Carolina to Florida, Kansas, and Texas. 



-)— H— Fimbrilla3 of the receptacle setiform or subulate-aristiform, mostly surpassing the akenes. 



++ Lobes or teeth of disk-corolla subulate-acute and usually tipped with a seta or cusp, externally 

 beset with long and beaded hairs : rays usually numerous and when well developed contiguous 

 or overlapping, short-cuneate at base: pappus aristate even in the ray -flowers: bracts of invo- 

 lucre callous at base, more or less hirsute, as also the herbage. 



G. aristata, Pursh. Perennial ; often 2 feet or more high : leaves of firm texture, lanceo- 

 late or broader, or lower spatulate, from entire to laciniate-dentate or sinuate-pinnatifid : 

 rays all yellow, in the largest heads inch and a half long : setiform fimbrill^ sometimes little 

 shorter than disk-corollas. —Fl. ii. 573; Liudl. Bot. Reg. t. 1186; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2940, 

 & Fl. i. 315 ; DC. Prodr. v. 652 ; Gay, 1. c ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. G. bicolor. Hook. Fl. 1. c, 

 excl. syu. G. bicolor, var. aristata, Nutt. Gen. ii. 175; Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 3368. 

 G. riistica, Cass. Diet, xviii. 20 ; Desf. Cat. G. lanceolata, DC. 1. c, excl. syn. — Plains, 

 Saskatchewan to Brit. Columbia and Oregon, south to S. Colorado, New Mexico, and even 

 the borders of California ? 



G. pulchella, Foug. 1. c Annual, a foot or less high, diffusely branched at base: leaves 

 softer, from entire to pinnatifid : rays two-colored, lower part red-purple or darker, the upper 

 or teeth yellow, at most inch long : lobes of disk-corolla more attenuate : fimbrillie rather 

 stouter, hardly surpassing the mature akenes. — Cass. Diet, xviii. 19; DC. 1. c. ; Gay, 1. c. ; 

 Torr. & Gray' 1. c. G. bicolor, Lam. Diet. ii. 590, & 111. t. 708; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1602 (as 

 to figure) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3551 (var. Drummondii, iritegerrima). G. Dnuiimondii, DC. 

 Prodr. V. 652. Virgilia helioidcs, L'Her. ; Smith. Exot. Bot. i. t. 37. — Plains, Louisiana, 

 Arkansas, and Texas to Arizona. (Adj. Mex.) 



Var. picta. Form with somewhat succulent leaves, when growing near the sea-shore : 

 fimbrillie of the receptacle shorter and stouter, more or less subulate. — G. bicolor, var. Druin- 

 mondii. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3368. G. picta, Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 267 ; Gay, 1. c. — 

 Texas, in low grounds. Common in gardens. 



++ ++ Teeth of the disk-corolla short and broad, obtuse, pointless or obscurely apiculate : invo- 

 lucre more or less callous at base. 

 = Akenes destitute of villous hairs (glabrous or glabrate) at the upper part, and not overtopped 

 by the basal villi : fimbrillse of the receptacle setiform, equalling or surpassing the akenes : leaves 

 imdivided. 

 G. ambl^odon, Gay. Annual, a foot or two high, leafy to the top, mostly hirsute: leaves 

 oblong or the lower spatulate, all sessile by an auriculate base, denticulate or the upper 

 entire : bracts of the involucre hirsutc-ciliate, outer with conspicuous erect callous base ; 

 rays numerous and contiguous, oblong-cuneate, throughout brownish red or maroon-color, an 

 inch or less long: ray-pappus awnless. — Ann. Sci. Nat. I.e.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 367 ; 

 Gray, Chloris Am. Bor. (Mem. Am. Acad, iii.) 32, t. 4; Meehan, Nat. Fl. ii. t. 46. — Sandy 

 prairies of Texas; first coll. by Drummond. 

 G. Mexicana, Gray. A foot or less high from a perennial root, with the habit of (L lan- 

 ceolata, minutely pubescent, naked above, with long rather rigid peduncles : leaves lanceolate, 

 rather small, entire, or ths lowest cauline and radical .sparingly dentate orlaciniate: head 



