Victorian Plants. 



Involucral bracts firm, shining, bright- or brownish- 

 yellow. 



Perennial, never tall, scantily beset with somewhat cottony 

 vestiture ; leaves from broad- to narrow-linear ; headlets 

 of flowers soon hemispherical ; involucral bracts some- 

 what spreading, mostly oval ; pappus-bristlets rather 

 numerous ; fruits terminated by a short and thin 

 attenuation. L. nitidulus. 



1468. Pappus-bristlets few or several ... ... ... 1469 



Pappus-bristlets rather numerous ... ... ... 1471 



1469. Marginal non-staminate flowers unprovided with any 



pappus. 



Perennial, rather tall, very slender ; leaves all linear and 

 along the margin revolute, the radical leaves considerably 

 elongated, all above nearly glabrous ; headlets of flowers 

 quite small, on very long and almost capillary stalks, 

 turbinate-semiovate ; involucral bracts in many rows, 

 quite minute, ciliolated and somewhat cottony invested ; 

 pappus-bristlets from four to six, plumously dilated at 

 the summit ; terminal attenuation of fruit very short. 



L. teiiuifolius. 



All flowers provided with a pappus ... ... ... 1470 



1470. Pappus-bristlets of staminate flowers usually from 



eight to twelve. 



Perennial, from somewhat dwarf to rather tall, imperfectly 

 or scantily beset with cottony vestiture ; leaves mostly 

 from elliptic- to linear-lanceolar, usually bearing on the 

 upper side scattered hairlets, flat or somewhat recurved 

 at the margin ; headlets of flowers small, on elongated 

 much bracteate stalks, semiovate-bellshaped ; involucral 

 bracts in many rows, minute, ciliolated ; pappus-bristlets 

 of the non-staminate flowers from three to five ; terminal 

 attenuation of fruit very short. L. sc[iiaiiiatus. 



Pappus-bristlets of staminate flowers usually four. 



Annual, never tall, imperfectly or scantily beset with 

 cottony vestiture ; leaves mostly from lanceolar- to 

 narrow-linear, usually recurved along the margin, often 

 becoming glabrous above ; headlets of flowers quite 

 small, on elongated very thin much bracteate stalks, 

 turbinate-semiovate ; involucral bracts in many rows, 

 minute, conspicuously ciliolated, shining, pale-yellowish, 

 transparent ; pappus - bristlets of the non - staminate 

 flowers two or three ; terminal attenuation of fruit 

 very short. L. pulch.eU.US. 



