COMFOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 709 



1. B. nud^ta (Michx.) DC. A smooth perennial ; the slender stem 3-8 dm 

 high, simple or branched from the base, naked above, bearing small heads in a 

 flat-topped corymb. — Low pine barrens, N. J., and south w. Sept. 



19. BELLIS [Tourn.] L. Daisy 



Heads many-flowered ; the rays numerous, pistillate. Bracts of the involucre 

 herbaceous, equal, in about 2 rows. Keceptacle conical, naked. Achenes 

 obovate, flattened, wingless, and without any pappus. — Low herbs, chiefly of 

 the Old World, either steniless, like the true Daisy, B. perenms'l. (which 

 is found as an occasional escape from cultivation), or leafy-stemmed, as is the 

 following. (The Latin name, of uncertain derivation.) 



1. B. integrifblia Michx. (Westerv D.) Annual or biennial, diffusely 

 branched, 1-i dm. high, smoothish ; leaves lanceolate or oblong, the lower 

 spatuhite-obovate ; heads on slender peduncles; rays pale violet-purple.—- 

 Prairies and banks, Ky., and south westw. May, June. 



20. CHAETOPAPPA DC. 



Heads several-flowered, radiate ; disk-flowers often sterile. Involucral bracts 

 imbricated in 2 or more rows, the outer shorter. Receptacle flat, naked. 

 Achenes fusiform or compressed ; pappus of 5 or fewer thin nerveless scales, 

 alternating with rough bristly awns, or these wanting. — Low southwestern 

 branching annuals, with narrow entire leaves and solitary terminal heads ; rays 

 white or purple. (XatV?;, a bristle, and irdinros, pappus.) 



1. C. asteroides DC. Slender, 0.'>-3 dm. high, pubescent; involucres 

 slender, 4 mm. long; rays 5-12; achenes pubescent. — Dry grounds, :Mo., 

 and southwestw. 



21. B0LT6nIA L'll^r. 



Heads many-flowered ; rays numerous, pistillate. Bracts of the hemispheri- 

 cal involucre imbricated somewhat in 2 rows, appressed, with narrow mem- 

 branaceous margins. Keceptacle conical or hemispherical, naked. Achenes 

 very flat, obovate or inversely heart-shaped, margined with a callous wing, or in 

 the ray 3-winged, crowned with a pappus of several minute bristles and usually 

 2-4 longer awns. — Perennial bushy-branched smooth herbs, pale green, with the 

 aspect of Aster; the thickish leaves chiefly entire, often turned edgewise. 

 Flowers autumnal ; disk yellow ; rays white or purplish. (Dedicated to James 

 Bolton^ English botanist of the 18th century.) 



* Heads middle-sized, loosely corymhed. 



1. B. asteroides (L.) L'H^r. Stems 0.2-2.5 m. high; leaves lanceolate; 

 involucral bracts acuminate ; pappus of few or many minute bristles and 2 awns 

 or none. — Moist places along streams, Ct. to Neb., and southw. Aug.-Oct. 

 Var. decurrexs (T. & G.) Engelm. A large form with the leaves alate-decur- 

 rent upon the stem and branches. (B. decurrens "Wood.) — 111. and Mo. 



2. B. latisquama Gray. Heads rather larger ; involucral bracts oblong to 

 ovate, obtuse or macron ate-apiculate ; pappus-awns conspicuous. — Prairies, etc., 

 w. Mo., Kan., and Okla. 



* * Heads small, panicled on the slender branches. 



8. B. diffusa Ell. Stem diffusely branched ; leaves lance-linear, those on 

 the branchlets very small and awl-shaped ; rays short, mostly white ; pappus of 

 several very short bristles and 2 short awns. — Prairies, etc., s. 111. to Fla. and 

 Tex. Aug.-Oct. 



22. Aster [Tourn.] L. Starwort. Frost-flower. Aster 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; the ray-flowers in a single series, fertile. 

 Bracts of the involucre more or less imbricated, usually with lierbaceous or leaf- 



