COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



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etc. ; leaves broadly oblanceolate or even obovate, unlobed, pale beneath, acumi- 

 nate, sagittate at base, some or all rather finely sinuate-toothed, the upper 

 usually entire or nearly so. Rich thickets, etc., e. Mass, to Ind. 



5. L. sagittif61ia Ell. Tall and stout, glabrous, very leafy ; leaves thickish, 

 broadly oblong or lance-oblong, acute, strictly entire or merely a little toothed 

 on the broad and conspicuous amplexicaul auricles of the sagittate base ; inflo- 

 rescence, etc., as in nos. 3 and 4. (L. integrifolia Man. ed. 6, in part.) Rich 

 soil, Pa. to S. C. 



- - Leaves hirsute or hispid-setose on the midnerve beneath. 



++ Stem leafy chiefly at or below the middle; bracts of the inflorescence minute, 

 subulate ; slender eastern and southern species. 



6. L. hirsuta Muhl. Rather few-leaved, 0.5-1 m. high, 

 commonly hirsute at base ; leaves hirsute on both sides or only 

 on the midrib, mostly runcinate-pinnatifid, with rather narrow 

 rhachis and lobes; heads slender and elongated, in a loose 

 open panicle ; achenes elliptic-oblong, equaled by the beak ; 

 flowers yellow-purple, rarely whitish. Dry 

 open ground, Que. to La. and Tex. FIG. 

 1020. 



++ ++ Stem more uniformly leafy ; bracts at 

 the base of the inflorescence somewhat 

 foliaceous stout species of the interior. 



1020. L. hirsuta. 



7. L. ludoviciana (Nutt.) Riddell. Tall and stout, 0.5- 

 1.5 m. high, leafy ; leaves sinuate-pinnatifid, the rhachis and 

 spinulose-toothed lobes rather broad ; heads large, ovoid, in 1021. L. ludoviciana. 

 an open panicle; the involucre much imbricated, 1.6-2 cm. 



long ; flowers yellow. Minn., la., and south westw. FIG. 1021. 



8. L. camp&stris Greene. Closely similar to no. 7, but flowers blue. Prai- 

 ries, s. Minn, to Kan. Perhaps only a color form of the preceding. 



* * * Heads about 18-floivered; achenes lanceolate, 3-ribbed on each face, nar- 

 row-margined, 3-4 times exceeding the beak. 



9. L. Morssii Robinson. Very leafy, somewhat hirsute below, 1-3 m. high ; 

 leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, mostly 5-lobed, 1.2-2 dm. long, half as broad, on 



broadly winged clasping petioles, the lower somewhat hirsute 

 beneath on the midrib, etc. ; panicle ample ; involucre about 1 cm. 

 long ; flowers blue ; achene black, mottled with brown ; pappus 

 cream-colored in drying. Rich low ground, Me. and Mass.; also 

 reported from n. N. Y. FIG. 1022. 



2. LACTUCASTRUM Gray. Achenes flat, lanceolate-oblong, 

 marginless, tapering to a short slender firm beak ; perennial ; 

 1022. L. Morssii. flowers blue. 



10. L. Stedlei Britton. Tall and stout; leaves ovate-oblong to 

 broadly lanceolate, doubly dentate but unlobed, acuminate, hirsute upon the 

 midnerve and principal veins beneath, narrowed at the base to 

 rather long and winged petioles ; heads in an open panicle ; 

 flowers bluish-purple ; achenes lanceolate, 3-ribbed on each 

 surface, the margin slightly thickened. Open woodland, near 

 Washington, D. C. (Steel e\. 



11. L. pulchella (Pursh) DC. (BLUE L.) Pale or glau- 

 cous ; stem simple, 1 m. or less high ; leaves sessile, glabrous, 

 oblong- or linear-lanceolate, entire, or the lower runcinate- 

 pinnatifld; heads few and large, racemose, erect on scaly- 

 bracted peduncles ; involucral bracts imbricated in 3-4 ranks. 1028 - L - P ul< 

 Upper Mich, and Ont., westw. and south w. FIG. 1023. 



