COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite 



Dull cream quite prominent and cream-colored. The 



smooth, deep green leaves are varied in 



September form, the lower ones broad, three-sided, 



and remotely toothed, the upper ones 



deeply cut, and the uppermost lance-shaped with two 



small lateral lobes or none at all. The smooth stem is 



stiff, round, and generally dull, deep magenta- tin ted, 



with a bloom. 2-4 feet high. Common in thin woods 



northward, and south to Ga. and Ky. 



A similar smooth species, the stem of 

 Lion's-foot or wn i c h is green and without a bloom. The 

 leaves also very variable, a trifle roughish, 



Prenanthes an( l shaped (but more angularly) like those 

 serpentaria of P. alba. The flower-cluster is inclined 

 Dull cream to be somewhat flat-topped, and the pen- 

 ji 0r . dulous, bell-shaped, dull cream-colored 



September flowers are enclosed in a somewhat bristly, 



hairy, green envelop, which is sometimes 

 a trifle magenta-tinted. The curled branches of the 

 style are slender and prominent, as in all the Prenanthes. 

 1-3 feet high, usually 2 feet. In thickets, or dry sandy 

 ground, Mass, (rare) and N. Y. , south to Ala. and Fla. 

 PC trifoliolata, var. nana (Fernald), confined to alpine 

 summits of N. Eng. (Mt. Katahdin) and N. Y., has deep 

 madder brown flowers and variously shaped leaves. 

 4r-12 inche^ high. 



A tall, generally smooth species, with a 

 Tall White green or magenta-tinged stem. The leaves 

 Prenanthes (except the uppermost) variously shaped 

 altissima but long-stalked. The numerous narrow, 



Dull cream pendulous, dull cream-colored flowers with 

 color a smooth green envelop, are borne in a 



u t~ mber narrow terminal spike, or in small clusters 



at the leaf-angles. 3-7 feet high. In 

 woodlands and thickets, northward, and south to Ga. 



A dwarf species with stout, ruddy stem, 

 Prenanthes j flower-heads, and thick, narrow, 



Bootii . ... ' 



variously shaped leaves. Flowers whitish 



and fragrant, enclosed within a dull magenta-tinged en- 

 velop. 4-12 inches high. Alpine summits of N. Y. and 

 N. Eng. Found on Mt. Washington, Oakes's Gulf 



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