214 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



4-toothcd crown. Shrubby low maritime plants, coriaceous or fleshy, with 

 opposite Hourly entire leaves, and solitary pedunclcd terminal heads of yellow 

 flowers : anthers blackish. (Named for Olof Borrich, a Danish botanist.) 



1. B. frutescens, DC. Whitened with a minute silky pubescence 

 (6' -12' high); leaves spatulatc-oblong or lanceolate, often toothed near the 

 base; chaff rigidly pointed. Virginia and southward. 



35. II ELI OPS IS, Pcrs. OX-EYE. 



ir-ads many-flowered, radiate; the rays 10 or more, fertile. Scales of the 

 involucre in 2 or 3 rows ; the outer leaf-like and somewhat spreading, the inner 

 shorter than the disk. Receptacle conical : chaff linear. Achenia smooth, 4- 

 angular. Pappus none, or a mere border. Perennial herbs, like Helianthus. 

 lit ads showy, pcduncled, terminating the stem or branches. Leaves opposite, 

 pctioled, triplc-ribcd, sen-ate. Flowers yellow. (Name composed of r/Xioy > 

 the sun, and o\^ts, appearance, from a resemblance to the Sunflower.) 



1. II. lirvis, Pers. Nearly smooth (l-4high); leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late or oblong-ovate. Var. scXBRA has roughish foliage, and the involucre 

 somewhat hoary. Banks and copses ; common. Aug. 



36. EC II I IV ACE A, Moench. PURPLE CONE-FLOWER. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate; the rays very long, drooping, pistillate but 

 sterile. Scales of the involucre imbricated, lanceolate, spreading. Receptacle 

 conical ; the lanceolate chaff tipped with a cartilaginous point, longer than the 

 disk-flowers. Achenia thick and short, 4-sided. Pappus a small toothed border 

 Perennial herbs, with the stout and nearly simple stems naked above and ter- 

 minated by a single large head ; the leaves chiefly alternate, 3 - 5-nervcd. Kays 

 rose-purple, rather persistent ; disk purplish. (Name formed from 'E^ti/os , the 

 llcdyeJiog, or Sea-urchin, in allusion to the spiny chaff of the disk.) 



1. E. purpurCct, Moench. Leaves rough, often serrate; the lowest 

 ovate, 5-nerved, veiny, long-petiolcd ; the others ovate-lanceolate ; involucre imbri- 

 cated in 3-5 rows; stem smooth, or in one variety (E. scrotina, DC.) rough- 

 bristly, as well as the leaves. Prairies and banks, from W. Penn. and Ohio 

 southward and westward. July. Rays 15 -20, dull purple (rarely whitish), 

 l'-2' long. Root thick, black, very pungent to the taste, used in popular med- 

 icine under the name of Black Sampson. 



2. E. ailgUStifolia, DC. Leaves, as well as the slender sircple stem, 

 bristly-hairy, lanceolate and linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, entire ; involucre less imbri- 

 cated ; rays 12-15 (2' long), rose-color or red. Plains, from Illinois and Wis- 

 consin southwcstward. June - Aug. 



37. RUDBECKIA, L. CONE-FLOWER. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate; tlio rays neutral. Scales of the involucre 

 leaf-like, in about "2 rows, spreadin lammi , (lie short 



rlmtVrntH-avr, i"i rij/id Arlimta 4-angular, Hiioutli, not margined, flat at tin- 



