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6. Chrysopsis villosa CPursh) 



Nutt. Hairy Golden Aster. 



(Fig. 3657.) 



A melius villosus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 564. 



1814. 

 Chrysopsis villosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 151. 1818. 



Stem villous or strigose-pubescent, i°- 

 2° high. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, i'-2' long, 2"-$" 

 wide, the upper sessile, the lower nar- 

 rowed into a petiole, pale, persistently 

 canescent with appressed hairs; heads 

 rather few, i' broad or more, terminating 

 the short branches; rays oblong-linear, 

 golden yellow; involucre hemispheric, its 

 bracts 4"-5" high, linear-subulate, pubes- 

 cent and often ciliate; achenes obovate. 



In drj' soil, Minnesota and Illinois to Ala- 

 bama, west to Manitoba, British Columbia 

 and Nebraska. July-Aug. 



5. Chrysopsis camporum Greene. 

 Prairie Golden Aster. (Fig. 3656.) 



Clirysopsis camporum Greene, Pittonia, 3: S8. 1897. 



Stem villous-pubescent, erect, often branched, 

 i°-2>^° high, leafy up to the inflorescence. 

 Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, entire, 

 or with a few low distant teeth, acute, sessile, 

 or the lower narrowed into petioles, appressed- 

 pubescent with short hairs, ciliate, at least near 

 the base, i'-3' long, 2"-^" wide; heads several 

 or solitary at the ends of the branches, I'-i^' 

 broad, showy; peduncles i'-4' long; involucre 

 nearly hemispheric, y^' high, its bracts lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, pubescent; outer pappus-bristles 

 subulate. 



On prairies, Illinois and Kentucky to Missouri. 

 July-Sept. 



7. Chrysopsis stenophylla 



(A. Gray) Greene. Stiff-leaved 



Golden Aster. (Fig. 3658.) 



Chrysopsis villosa var. stenophylla A. Gray, 

 Syn. Fl. i: Part 2, 123. 1884. 



Chrysopsis stenophylla Greene, Erythea, 2: 



96. 1894. 



Low, slender, hirsute or rough-pu- 

 bescent, 6'-io' high. Leaves linear or 

 slightly broadened above, densely canes- 

 cent and ciliate, acutish, 9"-i5" long, 

 \"-2" wide, the margins revolute in dry- 

 ing; involucre hemispheric or broadly 

 campanulate, its bracts pubescent or the 

 outer densely ciliate; heads few, 6'''-io" 

 broad. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Arkansas and 

 Texas. Aug.-Sept. 



