﻿COMPOSITiE. 



Subtribe 1. Lampsajtej:, Less.— Receptacle not chaffy. Pappus none. 



177. LAMPSANA. Toum, ; Juss/gen. p. 168 ; DC. prodr. 7. p. 76. 



Lapsana, Linn.; Gartn. fr. t. 157. 

 Heads 8-12-flowered. Scales of the cylindrical-campanulate angled 



corymbose heads. Flowers yellow. 



angulaie-toothed, petioled, spmetiraes lyrate ; involucre very glabrous, near- 

 ly equalling the flowers.— Dan. t. 500 ; Engl. lot. t. 844 ; Schkuhr, 

 handb. t. 225 ; Hook. ! fl. Sbr.-Am. 1. p. 296. 



Lower Canada, Mrs. Sheppard >. Mn. Perdval ! Probably introduced 

 from Europe— Mr. Oakes once found this plant by the roadside in Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. 



■'^ 178. APOGON. Ell. sk. 2. p. 267 ; DC. prodr. 7. p. 78. 



Heads 10-20-flowered. Scales of the involucre mostly 8, somewhat in two 

 series, ovate, acuminate, nearly as long as the corolla, connivent in fruit. 

 Receptacle naked. Achenia obovoid-oblong, terete, longitudinally ribbed. 



