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COMPOSITAE. 



VOL. III. 



i. Gaillardia lutea Greene. Yellow Gaillardia. 

 Fig- 4545- 



Gaillardia lutea Greene, Pittonia 5 : 57. 1902. 



Stem roughish-puberulent or cinereous, usually branched, 

 ii-2 high, the branches straight, nearly erect. Stem leaves 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, roughish-puberulent, acute 

 at the apex, narrowed to the base, i'-2' long, 2"-$" wide; 

 heads about 2' broad, peduncled; bracts of the involucre about 

 equalling the yellow disk; rays 8-12, yellow; style-tips with 

 filiform hispid appendages; achenes villous at the base, or to 

 beyond the middle; fimbrillae of the receptacle short or none; 

 awns of the pappus slender. 



In dry woods, Missouri to Texas. July-Sept. Included, in our 

 first edition, in G. lanceolata Michx., of the Southern States. 



2. Gaillardia aristata Pursh. Great- 

 flowered Gaillardia. Fig. 4546. 



Gaillardia aristata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 573- 1814. 



Perennial ; stem simple, or little branched, 

 hirsute or densely pubescent with jointed hairs, 

 i-3 high. Leaves firm, densely and finely 

 pubescent, the lower and basal ones petioled, 

 oblong or spatulate, laciniate, pinnatifid or en- 

 tire, mostly obtuse, 2'-$' long; upper leaves ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, or oblong, or slightly spatulate, 

 smaller, entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid ; 

 heads ii'-4' broad, long-peduncled; bracts of 

 the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute; 

 rays 10-18, yellow; style-tips with filiform ap- 

 pendages ; fimbrillae of the receptacle mostly 

 longer than the achenes, which are villous at 

 least at the base. 



On plains and prairies, Minnesota to Saskatche- 

 wan, British Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico and 

 Oregon. Adventive eastward. Leaves sometimes 

 all basal. May-Sept. 



3. Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Showy 

 Gaillardia. Fig. 4547. 



Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris 

 1786: 5. 1786. 



Annual; diffusely branched at the base, the 

 branches ascending, 6' -is' high, or larger in 

 cultivation, more or less hirsute or pubescent 

 with jointed hairs. Leaves lanceolate, oblong, 

 or the lower spatulate, i'-3' long, entire, den- 

 tate or sinuate-pinnatifid, all but the lowest 

 sessile; heads i'-3' broad, long-peduncled, 

 bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hirsute or pubescent; rays 10-20, red or purple 

 at the base, yellow toward the apex ; style-tips 

 with filiform hispid appendages; fimbrillae of 

 the receptacle equalling or scarcely longer than 

 the achenes, which are more or less villous, 

 or glabrous. 



In dry soil, Nebraska and Missouri to Louisi- 

 ana, Mexico and Arizona. May-Sept. 



