CAEDUACEAE 1163 



lanceolate, 1-2.5 cm. long, coarsely toothed, sessile and partly clasping: involucres 2.5-3 

 mm. broad ; bracts slightly broadened upward, acute : disk pink or rose-purple : pappus 

 more or less concreted. 



On low prairies, southern Texas and adjacent Mexico. 



7. AGERATUM L. 



Perennial caulescent herbs, or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite, or alternate above : 

 blades simple, usually toothed. Heads small, discoid, usually in corymbs, white, purple 

 or blue. Involucres campanulate : bracts nearly equal, in 2-3 series. Eeceptacle flat or 

 nearly so, naked, or with few caducous scales. Corollas regular, barely distinguishable into 

 tube and limb. Stigmas elongated, obtuse. Achenes 5-angled. Pappus simple, of 5 or 

 10-20, distinct or partially united scales. The plants bloom from spring to fall. 



Foliage pubescent : pappus of distinct scales. 1. A. conyzoides. 



Foliage glabrous : pappus cup-like or crown-like. 2. A. littorale. 



1. Ageratum conyzoides L. Foliage hirsute. Stems 3-9 dm. tall, often branched : 

 leaf-blades ovate to deltoid, 2-5 cm. long, serrate to crenate-serrate, truncate or subcordate 

 or rarely broadly cuneate at the base ; petioles shorter than the blades : involucres minutely- 

 pubescent, or glabrate in age ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long, firm, ribbed, 

 acuminate, serrulate : corollas blue or white : achenes columnar, 1.5 mm. long, each sur- 

 mounted by 5-7 rigid distinct pappus-scales. 



In waste places, North Carolina to Florida. 



2. Ageratum littorale A. Gray. Foliage glabrous. Stems 3-7 dm. long, decumbent 

 or assurgent, often diffusely branched : leaf-blades ovate, 1-5 cm. long, crenate-serrate, 

 rather fleshy, broadly cuneate at the base ; petioles as long as the blades or longer : invo- 

 lucres glabrous ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long, acuminate, ribbed : corollas 

 blue : achenes about 2 mm. long, each surmounted by a narrow cup-like, rarely toothed 

 pappus. 



In sand, Florida Keys. 



8. STEVIA Cav. 



Herbs or shrubby plants, with rigidly or rarely diffusely branched stems. Leaves 

 opposite, or the upper alternate : blades usually serrate, and 3-nerved, rarely entire or 3- 

 cleft. Heads 5-flowered, loosely or densely clustered. Involucres cylindric : bracts 5-6, 

 narrow, rigid, nearly equal. Receptacle naked. Corollas all alike, regular. Anthers ap- 

 pendaged, obtuse at the base. Stigmas slender, rather obtuse. Achenes slender some- 

 times flattened. Pappus of scales or awns, sometimes both forms together. 



1. Stevia folioaa Small. A branching shrub several dm. tall, with glabrous foliage. 

 Leaves numerous, small ones clustered in the axils of the larger ; blades narrowly linear 

 to almost linear-filiform, 3-10 cm. long, acute, remotely serrate or nearly entire : heads 

 few in each cyme : involucres narrowly cylindric, 7-8 mm. high, short-peduncled ; bracts 

 linear, acute, ribbed, appressed. 



On plains or prairies, southern Texas and Mexico. Spring to fall. 



9. OSMIA Sch. Bip. 



Perennial caulescent herbs, or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite : blades broadest 

 below the middle, petioled. Heads in corymbose cymules. Involucres ovoid to cylindric : 

 bracts numerous, leathery or parchment-like, in several series, with more or less spreading 

 colored somewhat foliaceous tips, or herbaceous, conspicuously ribbed, obtuse. Eecep- 

 tacle flat or slightly convex, naked. Corolla regular. Achenes 5-angled, narrow. Pappus 

 of numerous hair-like bristles. 



Tips of the involucral bracts not appressed, decidedly colored, much thinner than the bodies. 



1. 0. ivatfolia. 

 Tips of the involucral bracts appressed, more or less colored, the inner ones pale, 



each with a very minute cplored tip. 



Bracts of the involucre 5-7-ribbed : receptacle convex. 2. 0. heteroclina. 



Bracts of the involucre 8-ribbed : receptacle flat. 3. 0. conyzoides. 



1. Osmia ivaefolia (L. ) Small. Finely pubescent or somewhat hirsute. Stems 

 erect, 5-15 dm. tall, finally much branched : leaf-blades lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or 

 linear, acute, usually serrate above the base : involucres oblong-campanulate, 3-5 mm. 

 high, 10-2u-flowered ; bracts oblong to linear-oblong, rounded or nearly truncate, some- 



