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flower's white? ^NltLln /raL'.'^imV/'^yr.Z'tJ^lrr^M 

 St. Barbara, California, NuttalL—This plant is unk 



189. NABALUS. Cass. diet. 3i.p. 94 (1825) ; HooJc.fl. . 

 Harpalyce, Don (1829), not of Z?C.-Species of Prenai 

 Heads several-(5-30-) flowered. Involucre cylindric 



Receptable naked. Branches of the style much exserted 

 oblong, cylindraceous, striate or grooved, smooth, not cont 

 Pappus of copious straw-color or brownish scabrous capil 

 what fragile.— Perennial (North American) herbs; the 

 arising from a fusiform simple or branched tuber, which 

 to the taste. Leaves entire, or variously lobed. Head 

 culate, usually nodding. Flowers whitish, ochroleucou 



Heads pendulous: involucre c 

 •arely more or less hairy). {Lea 

 N. aZfews (Hook.): nearly glabrous, slightly gl< 



paniculate at the sumrnir (usually purplish); leaves ungulate-hastate, irregu- 

 larlv toothed, sinuate-incised, or sometimes either palmately or somev^hat 

 pinnately 3-5-lobed or parted (the lobes or undivided leaves mostly obtuse, 

 mucronate); the lower petioled; the uppermost u»"^l'y ol^^^^g^^^^^^^^^'^f^'Jo: 

 lucre^(glaucous S^usuaTly purplish) of about s'scales, 8-l2-flowered ; pappu* 

 deep c1nnamon-color.-N. albus & N. serpentarius, Hook. I. c. (in part, and 

 as to svn.) N. suavis, DC! I. c. N. trifoliolatus, Cass, in did. set. not. 

 34. p. 95. Prenanthes alba. Linn.! hort. Cliff, p. 383, Sf spec, l c. (exC 

 /3.); Michx.! fl. 2. p. 83; Bot. wa^. t. 1079; Pursh, I. c. ; Bigel.fi. Bost. 

 el 2. p. 286 (partly); Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 444 (partly), ^'f^f;^ 

 Salisb. parad. Lond. t. 85. P. rubicunda, Willd.! spec. 3. p. 1^37 {ex 

 herb.), excl. syn. P. Miamensis? ovata, & proteophylla, RiddeU, i- ■ 

 Chondrilla alba, Lam. ^ ^ ^ ^ "111 sinuate-pinna- 



tifid of ?pi?eTthrterm1narirbe°°^ ^^1'^ 

 hairs— Prenanthes Serpentaria, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 499, t. 24. Harpalyce ber 

 pemaria, Don, in Edinh.^new.phiLJoum. 6. J'- j^^^ ; Bech I. c. j^^,^,|,era 

 States! Sthe Upper Mississippi! and the Mountains of the ^°"''*^®J°gpo^|ed^ 

 Leaves very variable, pale beneath ; the margins mostly ^"^^'^'^^^^^j^.'^^^i'^^'^^^^ 



Lion's Foot. Rattlesnake-root. 

 , 2. xV. altissimus (H<iok.) : glabrous or nearly so; stem virgate ; 



(menabranaceous) all petioled, either undivided or the lower palmatelj J-^ 



