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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
double; the outer of very short little scale-like bristles ; the inner 
of copious capillary bristles. — Perennial herbs, with alternate 
leaves and mostly purple flowers. (Named in honor of Mr. Ver- 
non, an early English botanist who travelled in this country.) 
1- ^ . NOVeboracensis, Willd. Scales of the involucre tip¬ 
ped with a long bristle-form or awl-shaped spreading appendage or 
awn; in some varieties merely pointed. — Low grounds near the 
coast, Maine to N. Jersey; and river-banks in the Western States. 
■^ u »- tall coarse weed with lanceolate various leaves. 
2. ^ • fascicillata, Michx. Scales of the involucre (all but 
the lowest) rounded and obtuse , without appendage . — Prairies and 
river-banks, Ohio and westward. Aug. — Tall, with narrowly or 
broadly lanceolate leaves, and mostly crowded heads ; but very vari¬ 
able. 
2. ELEPHANTOPUS, L. Elephant’s-foot. 
Heads 3-5-flowered, clustered into compound heads. Involu¬ 
cre narrow and flattened, of 8 oblong dry scales. Achenia many- 
ribbed. Pappus of stout bristles, chaffy-dilated at the base. — 
Perennials, with alternate leaves and purplish flowers. (Name 
composed of elephant , and novs,foot.) 
, ^ ^ oliniamis, Willd. Somewhat hairy, corymbose 
above, leafy; leaves ovate-oblong, thin. — Dry soil. Pennsylvania 
and southward. J 
Tribe n. EUPATORlACEiE. The Eupatorium Tribe. 
Branches of the style obtuse or club-shaped, usually elongated, 
minutely pubescent above on the outside ; the stigmatic lines ob- 
re \\ ithin below the middle. Anthers without tails at the base. 
Subtribe 1. EUPATORliLE. - Heads discoid. Flowers all 
alike, perfect and tubular, almost never yellow. 
SCl.ERoi.EPlS, Cass. Sclerolepis. 
Head single, many-flowered. Scales of the involucre linear, 
equal, in 1-3 aeries. Corolla 5-toothed. Achenia 5-angled. 
PP s a single row of almost horny oval and obtuse scales. -A. 
ot i aqpatic perennial, with simple stems, rooting at the base, 
e /* rln ,^ ’ near entire leaves in whorls of 5 or 6, and terminated by 
a head of flesh-colored flowers. (Name from <r k\ VP 6 S , hard, and 
W ’ c scale > ^ng to the hard papp U8 .) 
