174 COMPOSITES. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



Var. Beyrichii, Gray. A slender form, with minute or even cinereous 

 pubescence, smaller heads, and rays from white to pale rose-color. Synopt. 

 Fl. i. 219. Within the eastern limits of our range. 



2. Rays inconspicuous or slender, numerous, sometimes not exceeding the disk : 

 within them a series of rat/less Jiliform female Jbwen (commonly none in No. 

 29) : leaves entire or nearly so: /jappus simple. TRI MORPHIA. 



28. E. acris, L. More or less hirsute pubescent, varying towards glabrous 

 (not glandular) : cauline leaves mostly lanceolate, the lower and radical spatu- 

 late : involucre hirsute : rays slender, equalling or moderately surpassing the 

 disk and pappus, purple: Jiliform female flowers numerous. In the mountains 

 of Colorado and northward to British Columbia, thence across the continent. 



Var. DrOBbachensiS, Blytt. Somewhat glabrous, or even quite so: 

 involucre also green, naked, at most hirsute only at the base, often minutely 

 viscidulous : slender rays somewhat slightly exserted, sometimes minute and 

 filiform and shorter than the pappus. Same range as the type. 



Var. debilis, Gray. Sparsely pilose : stems a span to a foot high, slender, 

 1 to 3-cephalous : leaves bright green ; radical obovate or oblong ; cauline 

 spatulate to lanceolate, short : involucre sparsely hirsute or upper part 

 glabrate, the attenuate tips of the bracts spreading : rays in flower rather 

 conspicuously surpassing the disk. Synopt. Fl. i. 220. Mountains of N. 

 Montana, northward and eastward. 



29. E. armeriaefolius, Turcz. Sparsely hispid-hirsute or the leaves gla- 

 brous and most of the narrowly linear and elongated cauline bristly-ciliate: 

 inflorescence more racemose and strict : involucre sparsely hirsute : rays filiform, 

 extremely numerous, slightly surpassing the disk, whitish, no Jiliform rayless 

 flowers seen. From the mountains of California and Colorado to the Sas- 

 katchewan. 



3. Rays of the small (2 lines high) and narrow seemingly discoid (and 



thyrsoid-paniculate) heads inconspicuous, little if at all surpassing the disk or 

 pappus : leaves more or less hispid-ciliate. C^NOTUS, in part. 



30. E. Canadensis, L. From sparsely hispid to almost glabrous : stem 

 strict, 1 to 4 feet high, with numerous narrowly paniculate heads, or in depauper- 

 ate plants only a few inches high and with few scattered heads : leaves linear, 

 entire, or the lowest spatulate and incised or few-toothed : rays white, usually a 

 little exserted and surpassing the style-branches. Waste grounds, throughout 

 the continent. 



31. E. divaricatus, Michx. Low, a span to a foot high, diffusely much 

 branched, somewhat f astigiate : leaves all narrowly linear or subulate, entire : 

 rays purplish, rarely surpassing the style-branches of the pappus. Fl. ii. 123. 

 Open grounds from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. 



15. CONYZA, Less. 



1. C. Coulteri r Gray. A foot or two high, commonly branched, bearing 

 numerous small heads in a mostly crowded thyrsoid leafy panicle, viscidly 

 pubescent or partly hirsute : cauline leaves linear-oblong, the lower spatulate- 

 oblong and with partly clasping base, from dentate to laciniate-pinnatifid, an 



