24G coMPOSiT.E. (composite family.) 



small heads in a flat-topped corymb. Flowers yellow. Leaves scattered, oblan- 

 ccolate or linear, 1 -3-nerved. (Dedicated by DcCandolle to Dr. Jaah Biijeluw, 

 author of the Flonila Bpstoniensis, and of the American Medical Botany. > 



1. B. nud^ta, DC. — Low pine barrens, New' Jersey (rare), and south- 

 ward. Sept. 



21. CHRYSOPSIS, Nntt. Golden Aster. 



Iloails many-fluwcrcd, radiate ; tin' rays numerous, pistillate. Scales of the 

 involucre linear, imliricatcd, without herbaceous tips. Receptacle flat. Achcnia 

 obovate or linuar-oblon^j;, flattened, hairy. I'appus in all the flowers double, the 

 outer of very short and somewhat chaffy bristles, the inner of long capillary 

 bristles. — Chiefly perennial, low herbs, woolly or hairy, with rather large often 

 corymbose heads terminating the branches. Disk anil ray-flowers yellow. 

 (Name composed of ;(pvcr(If, yold, and o\//is, asjicct, from the golden blossoms.) 



* I e ires iKirrmrh/ hinrcotntf. or linear: achcnia linear. 



1. C. graminifblia, Nutt. Sih-en/silLi/, -^v'nh long close-pressed hairs; 

 stem slender, often with niimers from the base, naked above, bearing few heads; 

 leaves lanceolate or linear, elom/alecl, ffrass-like, nerved, sliininr/, entire. — Dr}' sandy 

 soil, Delaware to Virginia, and southward. July -Oct. 



2. C. faleata, Kll. Stems (4'-10' high) very woolly; leaves crowded, 

 linear, rii/id, about S-nirrrd, entire, somewhat recurred or sci/thc-s/tapfd, hairi/, or 

 smooth when old, sessile; heads (small) corymbed. — Dry sandy soil on the 

 coast, pine barrens of New Jersey to Nantucket and Cape Cod, JIass. Aug. 



* * Leaves ohlonrj or lanrrnlate, entire or slifjhtli/ sei'rate, mosthj sessile, veined, not 

 nerved ; achenia ohnvate, flattened. 



3. C. gOSSypina, Nutt. DenseJi/ wonllif all over; leaves ohlom/, obtuse (1'- 

 2' long) ; heads larger than in the next. — Pine barrens, Virginia and south- 

 ward. Aug. - Oct. 



4. C. Mariana, Nutt. Silh/ iriih low/ and n-ml: hairit, or when old smnotli- 

 ish ; leaves obloni/ ; heads corymbed, on glandular j)eduncles. — Dry barrens, 

 from S. New York and Pcnn., southward, near the coast. Aug. - Oct. 



5. C. villdsa, Nutt. Hirsute and villons-pubescent ; stem corymboscly 

 branched, the branches terminated by single short-pednncled heads ; leaves 

 narrowljl oblom;, hoarij icith rou(/h pubescence (as also the involucre), Jn-istlijciliate 

 toward the base. — Dry jilains and jjrairies, Wisconsin to Kentucky-, and west- 

 ward. July - Sept. 



22. INULA, L. Elecvmiuxe. 



Outer .scales of the involucre sometimes leaf-like. Achenia terete or 4-sided. 

 Pappus simple, of caj)illary bristles. Anthers with 2 tails at their base. Other- 

 wise much as in the last genns. (The ancient Latin name.) 



1. I. IlEi.fexM-M, L. (Common Ei.ec ami>.\\i:.) Stout perennial (3° -5° 

 high) ; leaves large, woolly beneath; those from the thick root ovate, petioled, 

 the others partly clas])ing ; rays very many, narrow. — Roadsides, escaped 

 from gardens. Aug. — Heads very large. Root mucilaginous. (Nat. from Eu.) 



