250 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



others linear, elongated, entire or toothed ; achenia somewhat top-shaped. 

 Var. MONTANA. Stem manifest, decumbent ; upper leaves nearly opposite. 

 (Hyoscris montana, ]\tichx. ?) Damp soil, Florida, and northward ; the variety 

 on the mountains of North Carolina. March -May. Scapes 6'- 12' high. 



84. HIERACIUM, Tourn. 



Heads many-flowered. Scales of the involucre imbricated, or in 2 rows ; the 

 outer row short. Receptacle nearly naked. Achenia not beaked, commonly 

 terete or spindle-shaped, ribbed. Pappus a single row of persistent brownish- 

 white hairs. Perennial herbs with alternate entire or toothed leaves, and single, 

 corymbose, or panicled heads of yellow flowers. Involucre, in our species, in 2 

 rows, the outer short and bract-like. 



1. H. SCabrum, Michx. Stem stout, leafy, hirsute below, rough above ; 

 panicle somewhat corymbose ; leaves oval, sessile ; the lowest spatulate-oblong, 

 hirsute; peduncles and involucre tomentose and glandular-hispid ; achenia cylin- 

 drical. (H. Marianum, Ell.) Open woods in the upper districts. Aug. and 

 Sept. Stem 1 3 high. Heads large, many-flowered. 



2. H. Gronovii, L. Stem leafy and hirsute below, naked and smoother 

 above ; leaves entire or denticulate, hirsute ; the lowest spatulate-oblong ; the 

 upper small, sessile ; panicle narrow, elongated ; achenia narrowed upward. 

 Dry sandy soil, Florida, and northward. Sept. and Oct. Stem l-2 high. 

 Lowest leaves spreading on the ground. 



3. H. venosum, L. Stem slender, nearly leafless, smooth ; lowest leaves 

 oblong-obovate, smooth, or hirsute on the veins beneath, often veined with 

 purple ; the others (1-3) small and remote ; heads small, in a spreading corym- 

 bose panicle, smoothish ; achenia linear. Shady soil in the upper districts. 

 May -July. Stem 1 - 2 high. 



4. H. paniculatum, L. Stem slender, leafy, villous below ; leaves thin, 

 lanceolate, denticulate, acute, smooth ; panicle divaricate; heads small, 12-20- 

 flowcred ; involucre smooth ; achenia short, not narrowed upward. Open 

 woods along the mountains, Georgia, and northward. Aug. and Sept. Stem 

 2 - 3 high. Peduncles filiform. 



85. NABALUS, Cass. 



Heads 5 - 20-flowered. Involucre cylindrical, composed of 5 - 14 linear scales, 

 and several short exterior ones. Receptacle naked. Achenia linear-oblong or 

 cylindrical, furrowed, glabrous, not narrowed upward. Pappus of numerous 

 straw-colored or brownish bristly hairs. Perennial herbs, with bitter tuberous 

 roots, entire or variously lobed leaves, and nodding heads of yellowish white or 

 purplish flowers, in short racemes or clusters. 



1 - N. albus, Hook. Smooth ; stem paniculate, purplish ; leaves acutish, 

 angled, toothed, or variously 3 - 5-lobed or parted ; the lowest petioled ; the up- 

 permost nearly sessile ; racemes short, spreading ; involucre purplish, of about 



