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COMPOSITAE. 



[Vol. III. 



i. Bellis integrifolia Michx. Western Daisy. 

 (Fig. 3723.) 



Bellis integrifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 131. 1S03. 



Slender, diffusely branched, pubescent, 6 / -i5 / high. 



Leaves thin, entire, obtuse, the lower and basal ones 



spatulate, x'-jf long, narrowed into margined petioles, 



the upper smaller, oblong, oblanceolate or linear; heads 



6 // -i5 // 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. 



2. Bellis perennis L. European or 

 Garden Daisy. (Fig. 3724. ) 



Bellis perennis L> Sp. PI. S86. 1753. 



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

 tuse, slightly dentate, i / -2 / long, narrowed into 

 margined petioles, pubescent and ciliate; scapes 

 naked, i / -j / high, usually several from the same 

 root, pubescent; heads 6 // -i2 // broad; rays numer- 

 ous, linear, white, pink, or purple: bracts of the 

 involucre oblong, 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 Co- 

 lumbia. Other English names are Herb Margaret, Ewe- 

 or May-gowan, Cbilding Daisy, Bone- or Bruise-wort, 

 Bone-flower, 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 flat- 

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

 rays commonly 3-angled. Pappus a single series of rigid bristles or short scales. [Named 

 for David Townsend, botanist, of Philadelphia.] 



About 17 species, natives of western North America. 



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



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



1. Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Large- 

 flowered Townsendia. (Fig. 3725.) 



Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 



(11)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'-t,' long, i>^ // -3 // wide, canes- 

 cent; heads \'-\y z f broad, solitary at the ends of 

 the branches; involucre hemispheric, its bracts 

 scarious-margined, lanceolate, conspicuously acu- 

 minate; 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, western Nebraska to Wyoming and New 

 Mexico. May-Aug. 



