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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
those from the root cut-lobed; heads very numerous, panicled.— 
Waste places, a common weed everywhere. July-Oct. — Plant 
5 r -3° high. Ligules much shorter than their tube. 
§ 2. Euerigeron, Torr. & Gr. — Rays crowded and conspicuous , in 
one, two , or more rows: pappus simple. (Erect perennials : heads 
somewhat conjmbed.) 
2. E# bellidifoliuni, Muhl. (Robin’s Plantain.) Hairy, 
producing offsets from the base; stem simple , rather naked above , bear¬ 
ing few (1 - 9) large heads, on slender peduncles, root-leaves obovate 
and spatulate, sparingly toothed; those of the stem distant, lanceo¬ 
late-oblong, partly clasping, entire ; rays {about 50) rather broadly lin¬ 
ear , light bluish-purple. — Copses and moist banks, common. May. 
3. E. Pliiladelpliicum, L. (Rose-purple Fleabane.) 
Hairy; stem leafy , loosely corymbed at the summit , bearing several 
small heads; leaves thin, witli a broad midrib, oblong; the upper 
smoothish, clasping by a heart-shaped base, mostly entire ; the lowest 
spatulate, toothed ; rays innumerable and very narrow , rose-purple or 
flesh-color. (E. purpureum, Mt.) — Copses and fields, common. 
June - Aug. 
§ 3. Phalacrol6ma, Cass. — Rays numerous, but nearly in a single 
row, conspicuous: pappus plainly double, the outer a crown of minute 
c haffy-bristle-form scales ; the inner of scanty capillary bristles which 
are deciduous , or entirely wanting in the ray: annuals and biennials- 
4 E. allnuuin, Pers. “(Daisy Fleabane.) Stem tall, 
branched, beset with spreading hairs ; leaves coarsely and sharply tooth¬ 
ed ; the lowest ovate , tapering into a margined petiole; the upper 
o\ ate-lanceolate, acute and entire at both ends; rays white, tinged 
with purple, not twice the length of the bristly involucre. (E- 
heterophyllum, Muhl. E. strigosum, Bigel.) — Fields and waste 
places, a very common weed. June-Aug. —Stem 3P-5° high, stout, 
bearing numerous corymbed heads, not showy. 
5. E. Strigosum, Muhl. (Narrow-leaved Daisy Flea- 
bane.) Stem panicled-corymbose at the summit, roughish like the 
leaves with minute oppressed hairs , or almost smooth ; leaves entire or 
nearly so, the upper lanceolate , scattered, the lowest oblong or spatu- 
ate, tapering into a slender petiole; rays white, twice the length o 
the minutely hairy involucre. (E. integrifblium, Bigel) — Fields, 
c ‘* common. June-Aug. — Stem smaller and more simple than 
the last, with smaller heads but longer rays. 
16.DIPLOPAPPCS, Cass. Double-bristled Aster. 
Heads many-flowered, the rays 8-12, pistillate. Scales of 
the involucre imbricated, appressed, lanceolate or awl-shaped, 
