﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
  101 
  

  

  ish 
  serrate 
  series 
  of 
  about 
  10 
  or 
  12 
  flat 
  and 
  perfectly 
  free 
  persistent 
  scales. 
  Re- 
  

   ceptacle 
  broad 
  (about 
  )t 
  an 
  inch 
  or 
  so) 
  flat, 
  naked, 
  or 
  only 
  subpubescent, 
  areol- 
  

   ate. 
  Rays 
  about 
  11, 
  oblong-lanceolate 
  about 
  3-toothed 
  (3-5? 
  — 
  middle 
  tooth 
  

   longest) 
  tube 
  very 
  short 
  hirsute 
  with 
  white 
  jointed 
  hairs, 
  pistils 
  much 
  exserted, 
  

   lobes 
  recurved, 
  tipped 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  cone 
  ; 
  disk 
  florets 
  50 
  to 
  60, 
  tubular 
  slightly 
  

   dilated 
  below, 
  abruptly 
  narrowed 
  into 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  tube 
  also 
  hirsute 
  with 
  white 
  

   jointed 
  hairs 
  and 
  stipitate 
  glands 
  5-toothed 
  recurve 
  spreading 
  border, 
  and 
  glab- 
  

   rous 
  teeth 
  ; 
  filament 
  stipitate-glandular 
  ; 
  style 
  bulbous 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  deeply 
  divi- 
  

   ded 
  above, 
  recurved 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  yellow 
  staminal 
  tube 
  exsert, 
  lobes 
  tipped 
  with 
  

   a 
  very 
  short 
  sub-obtuse 
  cone, 
  hispid 
  on 
  the 
  back. 
  Achenia 
  of 
  disk 
  and 
  ray 
  

   similar, 
  free, 
  oblong, 
  obcompressed 
  narrowing 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  sub-3-sided, 
  

   glabrous 
  or 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  striguloid-tubercles 
  and 
  broken 
  crenulated 
  lateral 
  

   margins, 
  slightly 
  incurved, 
  a 
  little 
  convex, 
  carinated 
  and 
  3-nerved 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  ; 
  

   face 
  1-ridged 
  and 
  5-nerved, 
  apiculate, 
  all 
  naked, 
  being 
  neither 
  toothed 
  nor 
  notched 
  

   (not 
  a 
  vestige 
  of 
  rudiments 
  seen). 
  

  

  A 
  perennial 
  branching 
  maritime 
  shrub 
  6 
  to 
  8 
  feet 
  high, 
  with 
  bright 
  yellow 
  

   helianthoid 
  flowers, 
  about 
  2 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter 
  ; 
  on 
  terminal 
  naked 
  peduncles, 
  

   usually, 
  if 
  not 
  always, 
  in 
  pairs 
  opposite 
  the 
  final 
  mature 
  leaf 
  — 
  strong 
  Artemesia 
  

   odor. 
  

  

  Partheno'psis 
  maritimus, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  A 
  woody 
  perennial 
  ; 
  broadly 
  branching 
  alternately 
  above, 
  erect, 
  (bark 
  of 
  

   body 
  pearly 
  grey 
  — 
  twigs 
  dark 
  madder-purple), 
  puberulent 
  in 
  the 
  young 
  state, 
  6 
  

   to 
  8 
  feet 
  high, 
  }4 
  to 
  1 
  inch 
  in 
  diameter. 
  Leaves 
  deciduous, 
  cordate-deltoid 
  and 
  

   deltoid 
  acute, 
  ovate, 
  and 
  ovate-oblong 
  acute 
  or 
  acuminate, 
  base 
  rarely 
  subcune- 
  

   ate 
  or 
  oblique 
  serrate, 
  dentate 
  or 
  repand-dentate 
  3-5-nerved 
  or 
  tripli 
  nerved 
  close 
  

   above 
  the 
  (sometimes 
  obscurely) 
  3-nerved 
  base, 
  margins 
  slightly 
  scabrous 
  ; 
  lam- 
  

   ina 
  thin, 
  green 
  above 
  and 
  pea-green 
  beneath 
  ; 
  sparsely 
  pubescent 
  on 
  both 
  sides, 
  

   petioles 
  slender, 
  i^ 
  to 
  }^^ 
  or 
  so 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  blade, 
  sub 
  scabrous, 
  alternate, 
  

   rarely 
  the 
  upper 
  pairs 
  opposite, 
  2-G 
  inches 
  or 
  more 
  in 
  length, 
  1 
  to 
  4 
  inches 
  in 
  

   breadth 
  ; 
  peduncles 
  in 
  pairs, 
  or 
  di-ortrichotomous, 
  opposite 
  the 
  extreme 
  devel- 
  

   oped 
  leaves, 
  naked, 
  as 
  long, 
  and 
  one 
  usually 
  longer, 
  than 
  the 
  petiole 
  (or 
  1}^ 
  to 
  

   2 
  inches 
  in 
  length). 
  Involucre 
  in 
  2-many 
  series 
  ; 
  outer 
  leafy, 
  several 
  from 
  the 
  

   first 
  broadest 
  colored 
  series, 
  successively 
  diminishing 
  to 
  hyaline 
  marginal 
  discoid 
  (?) 
  

   scales. 
  Rays 
  an 
  inch 
  or 
  more 
  in 
  length 
  (or 
  about 
  twice 
  or 
  thrice 
  the 
  disk) 
  ob- 
  

   'ong-lanceolate 
  3 
  or 
  more 
  toothed, 
  middle 
  tooth 
  longest, 
  etc. 
  Flowers 
  yellow, 
  

   2% 
  to 
  3 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter; 
  disk 
  florets 
  with 
  a 
  cylindrical 
  prolonged 
  throat, 
  

   slightly 
  swelled 
  pubescent 
  and 
  stipitate-glandular 
  below, 
  5-toothed 
  glabrous 
  

   border, 
  teeth 
  short, 
  triangular-acute 
  recurve-spreading, 
  abruptly 
  narrowed 
  into 
  

   a 
  short 
  tube, 
  hirsute 
  with 
  unequal 
  massed 
  white 
  frosty 
  jointed 
  hairs, 
  and 
  stipi- 
  

   tate 
  glands 
  intermixed 
  ; 
  style 
  exsert 
  (purplish 
  lobes) 
  revolute, 
  cone 
  tipped, 
  pap- 
  

   pillose 
  and 
  hispid 
  on 
  the 
  back, 
  base 
  bulbous 
  and 
  glabrous; 
  (florets 
  and 
  anthers 
  

   yellow), 
  lance-pointed 
  united, 
  filaments 
  stipitate-glandular, 
  (rarely 
  a 
  little 
  hirsute 
  

   also) 
  ; 
  achenia 
  of 
  disk 
  and 
  ray 
  similar, 
  all 
  naked 
  and 
  free, 
  the 
  firtile 
  very 
  dark 
  

   purple, 
  and 
  less 
  striate 
  but 
  more 
  tuberculate 
  throughout. 
  Receptacle 
  not 
  at 
  

   all 
  chaffy, 
  scarcely 
  puberulent, 
  flat, 
  areolate. 
  

  

  