COMPOSITAE. 



VOL. III. 



i. Bellis integrifolia Michx. Western Daisy. 



Fig. 4270. 

 Bellis integrifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 131. 1803. 



Slender, diffusely branched, pubescent, 6'-i$' high. Leaves 

 thin, entire, obtuse, the lower and basal ones spatulate, I'-T,' 

 long, narrowed into margined petioles, the upper smaller, 

 oblong, oblanceolate or linear; heads 6"-is" broad; bracts 

 of the involucre acute or acuminate, scarious-margined, 

 glabrous or nearly so; rays usually violet, oblong-linear; 

 peduncles terminating the branches, 2,' -7' long. 



In moist soil, Kentucky and Tennessee to Arkansas and 

 Texas. May-July. 



i. Bellis perennis L. European or Garden 

 Daisy. Marguerite. Fig. 4271. 



Bellis perennis L. Sp. PI. 886. 1753. 



Perennial, tufted. Leaves all basal, obovate, ob- 

 tuse, slightly dentate, i'-2 r long, narrowed into mar- 

 gined petioles, pubescent and ciliate; scapes naked, 

 I '-7' high, usually several from the same root, pu- 

 bescent ; heads 6"-i2" broad ; rays numerous, linear, 

 white, pink, or purple; bracts of the involucre ob- 

 long, obtuse, usually purple. 



In waste places, or occasionally spontaneous on lawns, 

 southern New York and eastern Pennsylvania to Nova 

 Scotia and Ontario. Fugitive from Europe. Native also 

 of Asia. Naturalized in California and British Colum- 

 bia. Herb-margaret. Ewe-ormay-gowan. Childing-daisy. 

 Bone- or bruise-wort. Bone-flower. Hen-and-chickens. 

 Ban-wort.* Bennert. March daisy. Bairn-wort. April-Nov. 



27. TOWNSENDIA Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 16. 1834. 



Tufted scapose or branching herbs, with alternate, entire, linear or spatulate leaves, and 

 large heads of both tubular and radiate flowers. Involucre hemispheric or broadly campanu- 

 late; bracts imbricated in several series, the outer shorter. Receptacle nearly flat, naked or 

 fimbrillate. Ray-flowers pink or white, pistillate. Disk-flowers tubular, mostly perfect, their 

 corollas regular, 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse and entire at the base. Style-branches flattened, 

 their appendages lanceolate. Achenes of the disk-flowers compressed, those of the rays com- 

 monly 3-angled. Pappus a single series of rigid bristles or short scales. [Named for David 

 Townsend, botanist, of Philadelphia.] 



About 25 species, natives of western North America. Type species : Townsendia sericea Hook. 



Branching from the base ; heads terminal. i. T. grandiflora. 



Acaulescent, or nearly so ; heads sessile among the leaves. 2. T. exscapa. 



i. Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Large- 

 flowered Townsendia. Fig. 4272. 



Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 

 7: 306. 1841. 



Perennial from a long woody root, branching at 

 the base and sometimes also above, pubescent, or 

 at length glabrate, 2''-8' high. Leaves linear or linear- 

 spatulate, i'-3' long, i4"~3" wide, canescent heads 

 i'-i4' broad, solitary at the ends of the branches; in- 

 volucre hemispheric, its bracts scarious-margined, 

 lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate ; rays violet or 

 purple; pappus of the ray-flowers a crown of short 

 scales, that of the disk-flowers of rigid bristles longer 

 than the achene, which is pubescent with 2-toothed 

 hairs. 



In dry soil, South Dakota to western Nebraska, Wyo- 

 ming, Texas and New Mexico. May-Aug. 



