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sometimes all lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, denticulate; heads long- 

 peduucled, smaller than in the preceding, the rays fewer and broader. — Pine 

 woods, Va. to Tenn., and southward. 



7. R. speciosa, Wenderoth. Roughish-hairy (1-2° high), branched; 

 the branches upriglit, elongated and naked above, terminated by single large 

 heads; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolaie, pointed at both ends, petio/ed, 3-5- 

 nerced, coarseli/ and unequally toothed or Incised ; involucre much shorter than 

 the numerous elongated (1 - 1^') rays; ehaif of the dark purple disk acutish, 

 smooth. — Dry soil, W. Penn. to Mich., Mo., and southward. July. 



50. LEPACHYS, Raf. 

 Heads many-flowered, radiate ; the rays few, neutral Involucral scales few 

 and small, spreading. Receptacle oblong or columnar; the chaff truncate, 

 thickened and bearded at the tip, partly embracing the flattened and margined 

 acheues. Pappus none or 2 teeth. — Perennial herbs, with alternate pinnately 

 divided leaves ; the grooved stems or branches naked above, bearing single 

 showy heads. Rays yellow or party-colored, drooping ; disk grayish. ( Name 

 from AeTTts, a scale, and iraxvs, thick, from the thickened tips of the chaff.) 



1 . L. pinnata, Torr. & Gray. Hoary with minute appressed hairs, slen- 

 der (4° high), branching; leaflets 3-7, lanceolate, acute; disk oblong, much 

 shorter than the large and drooping light-yelloAv rays (which are 2' long). — 

 Dry soil, western X. Y. to Minn., and southward. July. — The receptacle ex- 

 hales a pleasant anisate odor when bruised. Achenes slightly margined on 

 the inner edge, obscurely 2-toothed at the top. 



2. L. COlumn^ris, Torr. & Gray. Branching from the base, 1 - 2° high ; 

 leaflets 5-9, oblong to narrowly linear, entire or 2 - 3-cleft ; disk columnar, 

 often 1' long or more; ray as long or shorter, yellow or (var. pulcherrima, 

 Torr, & Gray) in part or wholly brown-purple. — Minn, to Tex. 



51. BORRICHIA, Adans. Sea Ox-eye, 



Heads many-flowered, radiate; rays fertile. Scales of the hemispherical 

 involucre imbricated. Receptacle flat, covered with lanceolate rigid and per- 

 sistent chaff. Achenes somew^hat wedge-shaped, 3-4-angled ; pappus a short 

 4-toothed crown. — Shrubby low maritime plants, coriaceous or fleshy, with 

 opposite nearly entire leaves, and. solitary peduncled terminal heads of yellow 

 flowers; anthers blackish. (Named for Olof Borrich, a Danish botanist.) 



1. B. frutescens, DC. Whitened with a minute silky pubescence (6'- 

 3° high) ; leaves obovate to spatulate-oblong or lanceolate, often toothed near 

 the base; chaff rigidly pointed. — Va. and southward. 



52. HE LI A NTH US, L. Sunflower. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; rays several or many, neutral. Involucre 

 imbricated, herbaceous or foliaceous. Receptacle flat or convex ; the persist- 

 ent chaff embracing the 4-sided and laterally compressed smooth achenes, 

 which are neither winged nor margined. Pappus very deciduous, of 2 thin 

 chaffy scales on the principal angles, and sometimes 2 or more small interme- 

 diate scales. — Coarse and stout herbs, with solitary or corymbed heads, and 

 yellow rays; flowering toward autumn. 'vXamed from tjAjos. the sun, and 

 &vdos, ajiower.) 



