200 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



ions 3-lobed ; lobes spatulate : heads globose, racemosely glomerate on short 

 and leafy branchlets, which persist as slender spines : bracts of the involucre 

 5 or 6, broadly obovate : female flowers 1 to 4 ; hermaphrodite-sterile flowers 

 4 to 8. Bot. King Exp. 180. Whole desert region of Wyoming, Utah, 

 Nevada, and Idaho. 



* * Akenes nearly glabrous : no spines. 

 *- Leaves dissected. 



2. A. Canadensis, Michx. A foot or two high: glabrous or mostly with 

 at least the radical and sometimes all the leaves either sparsely or canescently 

 silky-pubescent : leaves mostly 2-pinnately divided into narrow linear or almost 

 filiform but plane lobes, of thickish texture: heads 1 or 2 lines long, very nu- 

 merous in a compound oblong or pyramidal virgate panicle : involucre greenish, 

 glabrous or rarely pubescent. Across the continent to the north, and extend- 

 ing southward in the Rocky Mountain region to New Mexico and Arizona. 



3. A. borealis, Pall. A span or two high from a stout caudex : stems 

 simple : leaves silky-pubescent or silky-villous ; radical and lower 1 to 2-ternately 

 or pinnately divided into linear lobes ; uppermost linear and entire or 3-parted : 

 heads 2 lines broad, comparatively few, crowded in a narrow (rarely compound) 

 spiciform thyrsus with leaves interspersed: involucre pilose or glabrate, pale- 

 fuscous to brownish. In the alpine region of Colorado, and far northward 

 across the continent. 



4. A. pedatifida, Nutt. Cespitose, with a stout lignescent caudex, very 

 dwarf, canescent throughout with a fine and close pubescence : leaves chiefly 

 crowded in radical tufts and on the base of the (inch or two high) rather naked 

 flowering stems, once or twice 3-parted into narrowly spatulate or nearly linear 

 obtuse entire divisions: heads (hardly 2 lines broad) few, loosely spicately or 

 racemosely disposed, canescently pubescent. Dry ground, in the mountains 

 of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. 



< Leaves entire or 3-cleft or -parted : the whole plant or at least the base some- 

 what woody. 



5. A. dracuncilloides, Pursh. Glabrous: stems 2 to 4 feet high, either 

 virgately or paniculately branched : leaves mostly entire, narrowly or sometimes 

 more broadly linear, some 3-cleft : heads very numerous in a compound and 

 crowded or open and diffuse panicle, many -flowered. On plains, from Sas- 

 katchewan to Texas, and westward across the continent. 



6. A. filifolia, Torr. Minutely canescent, even to the 3 to ^-flowered invo- 

 lucre, 1 to 3 feet high, with virgate rigid branches, very leafy : leaves all slender 

 filiform, commonly 3-parted ; the upper and those in axillary fascicles entire : 

 heads very small, crowded in an elongated leafy panicle. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 

 211 . Plains, from Nebraska to New Mexico and W. Texas. 



2. Heads heterogamous ; the disk-flowers hermaphrodite and fertile, with 2-cleft 

 style. EUARTEMISIA. Ours have the akenes obovoid or oblong and wholly 

 destitute of pappus. 



* Receptacle beset with long woolly hairs. 



1. A. scopulorum, Gray. Herbaceous, a span or two high from a stout 

 multicipital caudex, silky-canescent : stems simple, bearing 3 to 12 spicately or 

 racemosely disposed hemispherical (rarely solitary) heads : radical and few lower 



