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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
2. C. falcuta, Ell. Stems low, very woolly; leaves crowded, 
linear , rigid, about ^-nerved, entire, spreading, somewhat recurved or 
scythe-shaped , hairy, or smooth when old, sessile ; heads (small) cor- 
ymbed; achenia oblong-linear. — Dry sandy soil, pine barrens of New 
Jersey and Long Island, to Rhode Island. Aug. — Stems stout, 
5' - Iff high. 
3. C. gramiiiiiblia, Nutt. Silvery-silky with long close- 
pressed hairs; stem slender, naked above, the few (showy) heads 
loosely corymbed; leaves lanceolate or linear , elongated, grass-like, 
nerved, shining, entire ; achenia linear. — Dry sandy soil, Delaware 
and southward, — to be sought in S. New Jersey. 
Subtribe 2. BACCHARIDEiE. — Heads not radiate ; the flow¬ 
ers all tubular, dioecious or monoecious ; the corolla of the pistil¬ 
late flowers very slender and thread-like, truncate, of the stam- 
inate 5-toothed. Anthers without tails at the base. Recep¬ 
tacle naked. Leaves alternate. 
21. B AC CHARI S, L. Groundsel-Tree. 
Heads many-flowered, dioecious, viz. the pistillate and stami- 
nate flowers in separate heads borne by different plants. Involucre 
imbricated. Achenia ribbed. Pappus of slender capillary bris¬ 
tles, in the sterile plant scanty and tortuous ; in the fertile plant 
very long and copious. — Shrubs, commonly smooth and resinous 
or glutinous. Flowers whitish. (Name of a shrub anciently 
dedicated to Bacchus.) 
1. B. Imlimifolia, L. (Sea Groundsel-Tree.) Smooth 
and somewhat scurfy ; branches angled j leaves obovate and wedge- 
form, coarsely toothed above, or the upper entire; heads scattered 
or in leafy panicles. — Sea-beach, Connecticut to New Jersey, a» d 
southward. Sept. - Oct. — Shrub 6° - 12P high ; the fertile plant 
conspicuous in autumn by its very long and white pappus. 
Subtribe 3. TARCHONANTHELE. — Heads and flowers 
nearly as in subtribe 2, but chiefly monoecious. Anthers produced 
into tails at the base. Receptacle naked or chaffy. ^ aves 
alternate. 
22. PltCHEA, Cass. Marsh Fleabank. 
Heads many-floweTed; the flowers all tubular; the central 
perfect but sterile, few, with a 5-cleft corolla ; the others with a 
