208 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



6. V. angUStifolia, Michx. Stein slender, smooth or hairy, very leafy ; 

 leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, smoothish, or pubescent and roughish, the 

 lowest ones sparingly denticulate, the upper entire, with the margins revolnte; 

 corymbs mostly umbel-like ; involucre bell-shaped ; the scales lanceolate, 

 fringed, acute or conspicuously mucronate. Dry pine barrens, Florida to 

 Xorth Carolina, and westward. June- August. Stem 2-3 high. 



Var. pumila, Chapm. Low (6' -12'), smoothish ; leaves short; heads 3- 

 7, loosely corymbose; involucre smooth; pappus yellowish; acheuium smooth. 

 Wet pine woods, South Florida. Nov. 



2. STOKESIA, L'Her. 



Heads many-flowered; the marginal flowers much larger, deeply split on 

 the inside, and ray-like. Involucre subglobose, bracted, the outer scales pro- 

 longed into a leafy bristly-fringed appendage, the inner ones lanceolate and 

 entire. Receptacle naked. Acheuia short, 3-4-augled, smooth. Pappus 

 composed of 4 - 5 filiform chaffy deciduous scales. A sparingly branched 

 downy-stemmed perennial. Leaves smooth, lanceolate, entire, the upper ones 

 sessile, and, like the bracts, fringed at the base, the lowest narrowed into a 

 slender petiole. Heads few or solitary, large, terminal. Flowers blue. 



1. S. cyanea, L'Her. Wet pine barrens, South Carolina, and westward, 

 very rare. Stems 1- 1^ high. Heads 1' wide. 



3. ELEPHANTOPUS, L. ELEI-HAXT'S-FOOT. 



Heads 3 - 5-flowered, crowded in terminal 3-bracted clusters. Flowers nil 

 equal and similar. Involucre compressed; scales 8, in 2 rows, drv, oblong, 

 acute, dotted. Receptacle naked. Corolla deeply split on one side, palmate. 

 Aclienia oblong, ribbed, hairy. Pappus bristly from a dilated base, double or 

 single Erect hairy corymbose-branched perennials, with alternate ample 

 leaves, and purple or white flowers. 



1. E. Carolinianus, Willd. Stem leafy, hairy ; leaves thin, oval or ob- 

 long, incurved-serrate, hairy, tapering into a petiole ; bracts ovate, longer 

 than the heads ; scales of the involucre slightly hairy. Damp shady soil. 

 July - August. Stem 1 - 2 high. Leaves 3' - 6' long, 2' - 4' wide. Flow- 

 ers purple. 



2. E. tomentOSUS, L. Rough-hairy; stem nearly naked; radical 

 leaves spreading, obovate-oblong, narrowed into a petiole; stem leaves (1-2) 

 small, lanceolate ; bracts ovate or cordate, usually shorter than the heads ; 

 scales of the involucre very hairy. Dry sandy soil. June - August. Stem 

 l-2high. Radical leaves 4' 10' long, 2' wide, spreading on the ground 

 Flowers pale purple. 



3. E. nudatus, Gray. Sparsely hirsute, and dotted with minute resinous 

 atoms ; stem (f/- 18' high) with 3 or 4 short obovate leaves at the base, and 

 a smaller one below the branches of the cyme ; bracts broad-ovate, barely 

 acute, rather shorter than the heads : scales of the involucre smooth, cuspi- 

 date ; scales of the pappus abruptly dilated at the base Damp ground near 

 the coast. July - Sept. 



