296 THE DAISY FAMILY. 



•* Stems many-flowered, branched, one to three feet 

 high. 

 a. Florets both tubular and ligulate. 

 Flowers in large, handsome panicles ; lower leaves 



elliptical, upper ones lanceolate 46. Golden-rod. 



Flower -heads three to five, on long, leafless 

 peduncles, the earlier ones overtopped by 

 the later; radical leaves deeply cordate, 



upper ones ovate 53. Leopaed's-bane. 



Flower-heads in a loose terminal corymb, ray-'j 



florets four to five; leaves ovate-lanceolate, i^^- Broad-leaved Eag- 



WOBT. 



toothed, glabrous ; stem smooth, angular J 

 Flower-heads somewhat coiymbose; ray-florets . 

 linear ; leaves oblong, much waved, clasp- 

 ing the stem with rounded auricles; whole 



plant woolly or cottony .54. Common Fleabane. 



Flower-heads few, distant; leaves oblong, with a 



few deep teeth at the end ; plant glaucous 57. Corn Marigold. 

 6. Florets all tubular. Leaves lanceolate, sen-ate, gla- 

 brous ; flowers greenish-yellow, half-drooping 33. Common BiDENs. 

 c. Florets all ligulate. 



Leaves nearly all radical, ovate, petiolate, and 

 growing in a rosette, variable in edge and 

 point. Seldom more than one leaf upon 



the stem 15. Wall Hawkweed,* 



Leaves dispersed all over the plant. 

 Plant more or less haiiy. 



Stem with rosettes of leaves at the base, at the 



time of flowering, ovate and petiolate.. 10. Wood Hawkweed.* 

 Stem without a radical rosette of leaves at the 

 time of flowering. 

 Upper stem-leaves all tapering at the base, ) 18. Narrow-leaved Hawk- 



and usually narrow J weed. 



Upper stem-leaves short and broad, and \ 17. Shrtjbby AuT0srNAL 



rounded at the base i Hawioveed. 



Plant glabrous. 

 Leaves narrow, grass-like, six or eight inches 



long, channeled, and entire 1. Yellow Goatsbeard. 



Leaves oval, toothed, til ree or four inches long, 

 those of the stem sharply pointed, 

 and clasping it with long pointed 

 auricles 12. Marsh Cbefis. 



• These two are connected by intermediates which it is impossible to refer 

 either to one name or to the other, and cannot be regarded as truly distinct. 

 (See the remarks on the genus Hieracium, at the end of the family.) 



