196 composite, (composite family.) 
grounds. April. — Plant low, woolly: the full-grown leaves 4' -5* 
broad, woolly underneath, somewhat angled or toothed. 
11. ADENOCAijLON, Hook. Adenocaulon. 
Heads 5 - 10-flowered ; the flowers all with tubular similar co¬ 
rollas ; the 5 marginal pistillate, fertile; the others staminate. 
Scales of the involucre equal, in a single row. Achenia obovoid 
or club-shaped, beset with stalked glands above. Pappus none. 
Slender perennials, with the alternate thin and petioled leaves 
smooth and green above, white woolly beneath, and few small 
(white ?) heads in a loose panicle, beset with glands, whence the 
name, from abfjv, a gland, and *m/Xo'r, a stem. 
1. A. bicolor, Hook. Leaves triangular, rather heart-shaped, 
with angular-toothed margins; petioles margined. —- Moist woods, 
outlet ofL. Superior, Dr. Pitcher. June. 
Tribe HI. ASTEROlDELE. The Aster Tribe. 
Branches of the style in the perfect flowers flat or flattish, 
smooth up to the point where the conspicuous stigmatic lines ter¬ 
minate, and prolonged above this into a flattened appendage, which 
is uniformly hairy or pubescent outside. Leaves almost always 
alternate. 
Subtribe 1. ASTERInEAS. — Heads with the flowers all 
alike and perfect, or with ligulate rays. Receptacle not chaffy. 
Anthers without tails at the base. Leaves alternate. (Genera 
No. 12-17, with the rays never yellow : genera No. 18 - 20 , 
with the rays yellow or none.) 
12. GAliATfeLl,A, Cass. Galatella. 
Heads many-flowered, the rays few, sterile. Involucre shorter 
than the flowers, the scales closely imbricated in 3 or 4 rows, 
without herbaceous tips. Receptacle alveolate. Achenia oblong, 
siBty-hairy. Pappus of copious capillary bristles. — Perennials, 
with straight stems, and narrow 1 -3-nerved rather rigid entire 
eaves, often dotted. Flowers with purple or pale rays and a yel¬ 
low disk. (Name a diminutive from that of the nymph Galatea.) 
1. G. liyssopffolta, Nees. Branches corymbose, crowded; 
leaves lanceolate-linear, acute, dotted, 3-nerved; rays 5-10, white 
