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ward. Aug.— Stouter and more corymbed than the next, with thick- 
ish leaves and often purplish branches. Heads long. 
2. N. altissimus. Hook. (Tall White Lettuce.) Smooth; 
stem tall and slender (3° - 6° high) ; the heads in small axillary and 
terminal loose clusters forming a long and wand-like leafy panicle, 
leaves membranaceous, all petioled, ovate, heart-shaped or triangular, 
and merely toothed or cleft, with naked or winged petioles, or fre¬ 
quently 3-5-parted, with the divisions entire or again cleft*, involucre 
slender (greenish), of 5 scales, 5 -6-floioered; pappus dirty white , or 
pale straw-color. —Rich moist woods, common, especially north¬ 
ward. Aug. — Leaves excessively variable. 
3. N. Fraseri, DC. (Lion’s-foot. Gall-of-the-earth.) 
Nearly smooth ; stem corymhose-panicled at the summit (1 — 4 high) ; 
leaves mostly deltoid, roughish; the lower variously 3-7-lobed, on 
margined petioles; the upper oblong-lanceolate, mostly undivi e , 
nearly sessile; involucre (greenish or purplish, sometimes s ig t y 
bristly) of about 8 scales , 8-12flowered ; pappus dull straw-color.-- 
Varies greatly in foliage: the var. integrifolius has t e t ic is 
leaves all undivided and merely toothed. —Dry sandy or sten e soi , 
S. NeW England to Penn, and southward. Sept. 
4. N. nanus, DC. (Dwarf Mountain Nabalus.) Smooth; 
stem low and simple ; the heads in axillary clusters forming a narrow 
racemed panicle; leaves triangular-halbert-shaped and various y o e 
or cleft, on slender petioles; involucre (livid) 10- flowere , 
about 8 proper scales and several very short bract-like ones , w uc ar 
triangular-ovate and oppressed; pappus dark straw-color. - Alpine 
summits of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, an oun 
cy, New York. Aug. - Plant 5' -10' high; the leaves with all the 
variations of the foregoing species. 
5. W. DC. (Boott’s Alpine Nabalus.) «e» «"* 
pie, dwarf, pubescent at the summit; the heads in an a in - 
raceme; lowest leaves halbert-shaped or heart-shaped, the 
oblong, the upper lanceolate, nearly entire, tapering into a n ^ 
petiole; involucre (livid) 10-18 -flowered*, of 10- o very o ^ lengt ^ 
scales, and several linear and loose exterior ones nearly W 1 S 
of the former; pappus straw-color. - Higher ^'-"^New 
White Mountains, New Hampshire, and Whiteface , 
' XiTBhtOS, DC. (Slender Rattlesnake-root.) Smooth, 
slightly*glaucous ; stem very simple, produced akove^ 
and sllL spiked raceme, the heads clustered and “O s tlj umlamra^, 
leaves lanceolate, acute, closely sessile, the upper reducedl o @ bracts 
the lower toothed or pinnatifid ; involucre (purp is ) of N e w 
8-12 -floicered; pappus straw-color. Sandy pine warrens 
Jersey Sept.-Stem 2>-4= high, the wand-like raceme often t 
long. 
