504 THE THISTLE FAMILY. 



C. pscudo liatris, a less showy species than the one already mentioned, 

 bears long linear leaves ; the basal ones of which are crowded and the upper 

 ones appressed against the stem. Its terminal corymb moreover is rather 

 small and dense, and the whole plant is slightly hoary. 



C. bellidefblius is known by its large heads of flowers which grow solitary 

 at the ends of a leafy peduncle forming thus a loose corymb. Of the in- 

 volucre the bracts are oblong, rounded and fringed at their apices, and more- 

 over rather unequal in size. The flowers' brilliant crimson corollas have five 

 pointed lobes. About the plant's base the leaves are lanceolate and clus- 

 tered, while on the stem they are small, distant and sessile. 



C. tomejitosus, which resembles greatly a Lacinaria, occurs through the 

 Carolinas to Florida in low pine-barrens. Its flower-heads are produced in 

 hose cymes, and the leaves, which are lanceolate and tufted about the base, 

 become very small and sessile on the stem. Very noticeably is the plant 

 covered with tomentum. 



GOLDEN ASTER, 



Chrysdpsis pMbsa. 



Flower-heads: large, growing on leafy peduncles in a terminal spreading corymb 

 and composed of both ray and disk flowers. Involucre : campanulate, the bracts 

 narrow, imbricated in several series and spreading. Rays : oblong, pointed at both 

 ends. Pappus: of both sorts of flowers alike and double. Leaves: alternate; 

 oblong, blunt at the apex ; the lower ones being often spatulate and narrowed into 

 petioles; the upper one sessile; entire ; veined, and very villous. Stem: one to 

 two feet high, branched above, leafy and hoary with white hairs. 



Among the golden asters this one of dry, sandy fields is not common, 

 being found much less seldom than either of the other given species. It is 

 quite a large, leafy plant and of coarser aspect than usually we associate 

 with the genus. Still its heads are golden, and it is one of the first of thR 

 autumn flowering composites to come and one of the last to go. 



C. Mariana, Maryland golden aster with its large golden heads of blos- 

 soms, is always a cheery individual, and either in dry, open woods or sandy 

 spots grows from about one to two feet high. It is happily one that occurs 

 very often, and over a range extending from Florida and Louisiana to south- 

 ern New York. At its base rests a large tuft of spatulate oblong leaves while 

 those on the stem are mostly lanceolate and sessile. With the exception of 

 silky white hairs which cling to them loosely and fall early, they are quite 

 smooth. 



