256 COMPOSITE. Tetragonotheca. 



or sometimes wanting : stems more branching : involucre ovoid and less angled 

 in the bud. — Haha, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



T. Texana, Gray & Exgelm. Minutely pubescent or glabrate : stems slender, a foot or 

 two high, sometimes freely branched : cauline leaves laciniately pinuatifid or incised, 2 or 3 

 inches long; the lower tapering into margined connate petioles; upper with winged petioles 

 or bases dilated at insertion and usually connate around the stem into a toothed disk : pe- 

 duncles elongated (4 to 9 inches long) : lobes of the involucre and 7 to 9 rays half-inch long : 

 tube of the corollas glandular : pappus none, or very minute, or scimetinies of numerous 

 subulate squamelliE of lengtli nearly ecpialling the breadth of the akeue. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 i. 48. Halea Texana, Gray, PI. Peudl. 83, & PI. Lindh. ii. 227. Tetragonosjierma lijrati/o- 

 lium, Scheele in Linn. xxii. 167. — llocky ground, Texas, Lindheimer, Wright, &c. (Adj. 

 Mex., Ber/andier, Palmer.) 



T. Ludoviciana, Gray. Glabrous or nearly so : stem ratlier stout, 2 to 4 feet high, usu- 

 ally leafv to the top : leaves ovate or oblong, ample (the larger 4 to 7 inches long), saliently 

 and acutely dentate, the lowest on winged petioles, upper all connate by mostly broad bases 

 into a large perfoliate disk : peduncles mostly longer than the leaves : corollas witli tube 

 somewhat pubescent: ligules 10 to 12, oval, less than half-inch long: akenes (over 2 lines 

 long) crowned with a conspicuous pappus of rigid oval or oblong, chaffy scales in length 

 equalling the breadth of the truncate summit. — E. Hall, List PI. Tex. 13, no. 328. Ualea 

 Ludoviciana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — Sandy soil, Louisiana [Hide, Leavenwortli) & Texas. 



Var. retDanda. Depauperate or dwarf form ; flowering sometimes from near the 

 ground ; the leaves therefore petioled, and the upper with perfoliate disk of united bases of 

 the petioles, nearly as in T. Texana : peduncles elongated as in that species ; so that it is as 

 it were intermediate between the two. — Halea repunda, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 1861, 458. — Texas, near Corpus Christi, Buckle//. W. of San Antonio, Palmer; an au- 

 tumnal state, flowering as seedlings. 



88. SCLEROCARPUS, Jacq. (2/cXr;po5, hard, Kapiro?, fruit, referring 

 to the indurating enclo.sing bracts.) — Strigose-pubescent herbs (the original spe- 

 cies African, the others mostly Mexican) ; with branching stems, terminal j^edun- 

 culate heads of yellow flowers, and alternate or opposite leaves : fl. summer. — Act. 

 Helv. ix. 34, t. 2, & Ic. Rar. t. 17G; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 364. Aldama, 

 Llav. & Lex. Nov. Gen. Descr. i. 14. Gymnopsis, DC. Prodr. v. oGl, in j^art. 



S. uniserialis, Benth. & Hook. 1. c. Annual, a foot or two high, loosely branched : 

 leaves all alternate, slender-petioled, deltoid- or rhombic-ovate, or uppermost lanceolate, 

 coarsely dentate, the strigose pubescence of the lower face canescent : loose involucral bracts 

 nearly in a single series ; corollas orange ; ligules 5 to 9, oval or oblong : fructiferous bracts 

 cartilaginous or bony, terete, roughish, in age often tuberculate. — G ijmnopsis uniserialis, 

 Hook. Ic. t. 145; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 316; Eevue Hort. 1853, t. 14; Belg. Horticole, 1854, 

 t. 20. Aldama uniserialis, Gray, PI. Lindh. ii. 228. — Moist or shady ground, Texas, Ber- 

 landler, Drummond, &c. (Mex.) 



89. ECLIPTA, L. (Name from c/cAeiVw, to be deficient, i. e. in pappus.) 

 — Insignificant herbs, of the warmer regions, chiefly of shores; with opposite 

 leaves, and scattered small heads of whitish or yellowish flowers; in summer. — 

 Mant. Alt. 157 ; DC. Prodr. v. 489. 



E. alba, Hasskarl. Annual, 1 to 3 feet high, or often procumbent and smaller, minutely 

 strigose-pubescent: leaves lanceolate or oblong, sparingly serrate, sessile or the lower some- 

 what petioled : peduncles from the upper axils, sometimes equalling the leaves, sometimes 

 shorter than the heads : ligules not surpassing the disk, white : akenes of the disk at length 

 corky-margined, truncate at summit <jr 4-denticulate when young. — PI. Jav. Ear. 528. E. 

 erecia & E. prostrata, L. Mant. Alt. 286. E. procumbens & E. brachi/poda, Michx. Fl. ii. 

 129. E. species 1-8, VC. 1. c. Cotula alba, L. Syst., & Verheslna alba, L. Spec. Eupatorlo- 

 phalacron. Dill. Elth. 1. 1 13. Amelias Cnrolinianus, Walt. Car. 313. — Shores and river-banks, 

 Kew .Jersey to Texas. (All subtropical countries.) 



