302 COMPOSITE, (composite family.) 



mostly deltoid, roughish ; the lower variously 3 - 7-lobed, on margined petioles ; 

 the upper oblong-lanceolate, mostly undivided, nearly sessile ; involucre (green- 

 ish, rarely purplish, sometimes slightly bristly) of about 8 scales, 8-12-flow- 

 ered ; flowers purplish, greenish white, or cream-color. (Nabalus Fraseri, DC.) 



— Dry sandy or sterile soil, New Eng. to Va., and southward. 



Var. nana, Gray. Stem more simple and strict, 6-16' high, smooth and 

 glabrous; inflorescence contracted, the clusters often sessile in most of the 

 axils. (Nabalus nanus, DC.) — Mountains of northern N. Eng. and N. Y., 

 and northeastward. 



8. P. altissima, L. Smooth ; stem tall and slender (3 - 7° high) ; the 

 heads in small axillary and terminal loose clusters forming a long and Avand- 

 like leafy panicle ; leaves membranaceous, all petioled, ovate, heart-shaped, 

 or triangular, and merely toothed or cleft, with naked or winged petioles, or 

 frequently 3 - 5-parted, with the divisions entire or again cleft ; involucre slen- 

 der (greenish), of 5 scales, 5-6-flowered. (Nabalus, Hook.) — Rich moist 

 woods ; N. Eng. to Minn., and southward in the mountains to Ga. 



1- -*- Involucre campanulate-oblong ; secondary basal scales 2-3, linear, loose. 



9. P. Boottii, Gray. Stem simple, dAvarf (5-6' high), pubescent at the 

 summit ; the heads in an almost simple raceme ; lowest leaves halberd-shaped 

 or heart-shaped, the middle oblong, the upper lanceolate, nearly entire, taper- 

 ing into a margined petiole ; involucre (livid) 10 - 18-flowered, the proper scales 

 10-15, very obtuse ; pappus straw-color. — Alpine region, mountains of Maine, 

 N. H., and N. New York. 



92. LYGODESMIA, Don. 



Heads and flowers (5-10) nearly as in Nabalus; the cylindrical involucre 

 more elongated, and the achenes long and slender, tapering at the summit; 

 pappus whitish. — Smooth, often glaucous, low perennials, with single erect 

 heads of rose-purple flowers terminating almost leafless or rush-like stems or 

 branches. (Name composed of \vyos, a pliant twig, and Sear/xv, a bundle, from 

 the fascicled twiggy or rush-like stems.) 



1. L. juncea, Don. Stems (1° high) tufted, branched, striate ; loAver leaves 

 lance-linear, 1-2' long, rigid, the upper awl-shaped and minute , heads 5-flow- 

 ered. — St. Croix River, Wise, to Kan., and westward. July. 



93. TROXIMON, Nutt. 



Head large, solitary, many-flowered. Scales of the bell-shaped iuA'olucre 

 ovate or lanceolate, pointed, loosely imbricated in 2 or 3 rows. Achenes 

 smooth, 10-ribbed, with distinct beak or none ; pappus longer than the achene, 

 white, of copious and unequal rigid capillary bristles. — Perennial scapose 

 herbs, with elongated linear tufted root-leaves, and yellow flowers. (Name 

 probably from rpwyco, to chew, of no obvious application.) 



1. T. CUSpidatum, Pursh. Scape 1° high, from a thickened caudex, 

 leaves lanceolate, elongated, tapering to a sharp point, entire, woolly on the 

 margins ; scales of the involucre lanceolate, sharp-pointed , achene beakless 



— Prairies, Wise, N. 111., and westward. April, May. 



