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COMPOS1TAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



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992. B. Eat, 



993. B. dlscoidea 



hairy, 1 cm. or more long, with 2 very slender upwardly 

 roughened awns (6-8 mm. long) surpassing the yellowish 

 4c-toothed corolla, and often 2 minute intermediate teeth. 

 (Coreopsis Nutt.) Shores of Delaware R. and 

 Bay. Sept., Oct. FIG. 990. 



2. B. Eatbni Fernald. Simple or branched, 

 2.5-6 dm. high ; leaves lanceolate, with long- 

 990. B. bidentoides. acuminate tips and slender petiolar bases, 

 coarsely serrate ; outer involucre of 3-5 bracts, 

 inner of 5 oblong conspicuously striate ones 1 cm. long ; rays 

 none ; disk-flowers 15-25 ; inner achenes 7-9 mm. long, 1-1.7 

 mm. broad, with strong midribs, usually with retrorse hairs on 



the margin ; the 2-4 awns 3-4.5 mm. long, downwardly barbed. 

 Brackish shores, lower Merrimac R.. Mass. Sept., Oct. FIG. 991. 

 Var. FALI,AX Fernald. Achenes and awns upwardly 

 Darbed. With the typical form. FIG. 992. 



3. B. discoidea (T. & G.) Britton. Ditfu.-vly 

 branched ; leaves ternately divided, slender-petioled ; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, pointed, coarsely serrate ; 

 heads small, 5 mm. high; outer involucral bracts 

 usually 4 ; achenes linear-wedge-shaped, tuberculate or smooth, 

 bearing a pair of short and stout upwardly bnrbed awns of the 

 length of the orange 5-toothed corolla. (Coreopsis T. & G.) 

 \Vet banks and swamps, Mass, to Mich., 111., 

 southw. and south westw. July-Oct. FIG. 993. 



4. B. frondbsa L. (BEGGAR-TICKS.) Stems tall (7 dm. or 

 less in height), paniculate-branched; leaves 3-5-divided, gla- 

 brous, the terminal leaflet long-stalked, acuminate, often again 

 divided, lateral ones shorter, less acuminate, all sharply serrate ; 

 heads 1.5 cm. long or less, on slender peduncles; 

 outer involucre of 5-8 ciliate bracts; rays small, 

 yellow ; achenes narrowly cuneate, 7-10 mm. long, 

 black, strongly 1-nerved on each face, often slightly 

 994. B. frondosa. hairy, the retrorsely barbed slightly divergent slender 

 awns barely half as long, exceeding the 5-toothed 

 orange corolla. (B.melanocarpa Wiegand.) Common in damp 995 B fron 

 ground, throughout. Aug., Sept. FIG. 994. Var. ANOMALA Porter. ^ an'om 

 Awns upwardly barbed. Local, N. S. to Pa. FIG. 995. 



5. B. vulgata Greene. (BEGGAR-TICKS, STICK-TIGHT.) Stem tall (often 

 1.5 m. high) and branching, glabrous ; leaves pinnately 3-5-divided, slender- 

 petioled, nearly glabrous ; leaflets lanceolate, very acute, coarsely serrate, all 



short-stalked; heads large, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, stout-peduncu- 

 late; outer involucral bracts 10-16, unequal, about equaling the 

 disk or sometimes longer, coarsely ciliate-hispid ; rays pale 

 yellow ; achenes 9-12 mm. long, obovate- or oblong-cuncate, 

 usually glabrous, but often tuberculate-roughened, brown or 

 olive; awns retrorsely barbed, exceed- 

 ing the 4-5-toothed yellow corolla. (B. 

 B vulgata. frondosa Wiegand, not L.) Moist 

 waste places and roadsides, throughout, 



but less common eastw. than the preceding. Aug. -Oct. 



FIG. 996. 



Var. pubSrula (Wiegand) Greene. Peduncles, leaves, 



and outer bracts puberulent. Wise, to Sask. and Mo. 



6. B. com&sa (Gray) Wiegand. Stem stout, 8 dm. or 

 less in height, glabrous ; branches short ; leaves pale, 



elliptic, acute, with icinged petioles, regularly serrate, or upper entire ; heads 

 few, large, 1 cm. or so high, short-pedunculate ; outer involucre of 6-8 nearly 

 erect linear or lanceolate usually entire unequal large bracts, the longest 2-6 

 times exceeding the disk; rays wanting" achenes about 1 cm. long, cuneate, 



997. B. comosa. 



