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often pedicelled, top-shaped; rays about 10. Low sandy places, common. 

 Oct. Stem 2 high. Heads smaller than those of the preceding. 



21. BIGELOVIA, DC. 



Heads 3 - 4-flowered ; the flowers all tubular and perfect. Involucre cylin- 

 drical-club-shaped, as long as the flowers ; the scales linear, rigid, appressed, 

 somewhat viscid. Receptacle narrow, cuspidate. Achenia terete, striate, hairy. 

 Pappus simple, of numerous scabrous capillary bristles. Styles scarcely exsertcd. 

 A smooth erect perennial herb, with narrow obtuse and entire leaves, and small 

 heads of yellow flowers, disposed in a compound corymb. 



1. B. nudata, DC. Stem mostly simple, virgate; lowest leaves spatulate- 

 lanceolate, obscurely 3-nerved ; the others scattered, linear. ( Chrysocoma nu- 

 data, Michx.) Var. VIRGATA. Lowest leaves linear-spatulate, 1-nerved; the 

 others narrow-linear or filiform ; heads larger. Low pine barrens, Florida, and 

 northward. Sept. Stem 2 high. 



22- ISOPAPPUS, Torr. &Gray. 



Heads several-flowered. Rays 5-12, pistillate. Involucre cylindrical-cam- 

 panulate ; the scales lanceolate-subulate, imbricated in 2-3 rows, appressed. 

 Receptacle alveolate. Achenia terete, silky. Pappus a single row of nearly 

 equal capillary bristles. Biennials. Stems paniculate. Leaves alternate, nar- 

 n. .. Heads scattered, on slender peduncles. Rays yellow. 



1. I. divaricatus, Torr. & Gray. Hispid and glandular ; stem erect, the 

 slender branches spreading ; leaves linear-lanceolate, sparingly toothed ; involu- 

 cre soft-hairy; rays 5-8. (Chrysopsis divaricata, Nutt.) Sandy fields and 

 woods, Florida, Georgia, and westward. Sept. Stem l-4 high. Panicle 

 large. Heads 15-20-flowered. 



23. HETEROTHECA, Cass. 



Heads many-flowered. Rays pistillate. Scales of the involucre imbricated in 

 few rows, linear. Receptacle alveolate, bristly. Achenia of the rays oval, des- 

 titute of pappus, those of the disk-flowers obovate, compressed, hairy, with a 

 double pappus; the outer one short and chaffy, the inner bristlv. Biennial 

 rough-hairy branching herbs, with irregularly toothed or entire alternate leaves, 

 and corymbose-pan icled heads of yellow flowers. 



1. H. SCabra, DC. Leaves oblong, toothed, commonly sessile or clasp- 

 ing ; the lowest petiolcd, obtuse or somewhat cordate at the base ; involucre 

 thick, shorter than the brownish inner pappus. (Chrysopsis scabra, Nutt.) 

 Dry sandy places along the coast, South Carolina, and westward. Sept. Stem 

 rigid, 1 - 2 high. Leaves 1 ' - 2' long. 



24. CHRYSOPSIS, Nutt. 



Pappus of the ray and disk-flowers alike, double ; the exterior row chaffy, or 

 of chaffy bristles, the interior longer, capillary ; otherwise like Heterotheca. 



