COMPOSITE FAMILY 



THE FLOWER HEADS: usually numerous in modified pani- 

 cles, one half inch broad or more, on slender peduncles 

 which are more or less glandular and sometimes covered 

 with whitish hairs ; principal bracts of the involucre linear- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, hairless or nearly so. 



THE FRUIT: achenes; pappus brown. 



This Hawkweed has a rosette of leaves at the base of a 

 slender and practically bare flowering stem. The plant is 

 very variable and therefore difficult always to distinguish 

 readily. But Mr. Bicknell says that "a character worthy 

 of primary consideration in the determination of ambigu- 

 ous examples" is the white hoariness (canescence) of the 

 panicle together with the very glandular dark-hairiness 

 (pubescence and nigrescence) of the involucre. 



Seventy-one other members of the Composite Family 

 have been reported. 



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