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COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



the last ; leaves lanceolate or linear^ the lower usually long and narrow. 



(A. purpuratus Nees.) — Va., W. Va., and southw. Sept., Oct. Fig. 946. 



81. A. concinnus Willd. Not glaucous, slender, 3-9 dm. 

 high ; leaves lanceolate, mostly somewhat serrate, the lowest 

 spatulate-lanceolate on winged petioles ; heads smaller than in 

 no. 29, numerous, panicled; bracts of involucre loose, with 

 more herbaceous narrower green tips; rays violet. — Rocky 

 woods, rare, Ct., and southw. Aug., Sept. —An ambiguous 

 species. Fig. 947. 



•w ^ Bays white, rarely purplish; bracts narrow, suhulately 

 green-tipped ; leaves mostly narrow, narrowed at base, on 

 the branchlets lax and attenuate. 



32. A. polyphyllus Willd. Low or tall, 1-15 dm. high, with 

 947. A. concinnus. ^j^-gj^^g branches ; cauline leaves lanceolate or linear, 0.5-1 dm. 

 long ; heads paniculate ; bracts lanceolate-subulate, the outer- 

 most much shorter; rays 1 cm. long. (A. Faxoni Porter). — 

 Rocky or gravelly soil, e. Me. and u. Vt. to Ont., Wise, and 

 southw. Aug.-Oct. Fig. 948. — Heads larger than in the 

 next. 



33. A. ericoides L. Smooth, 3-9 dm. high ; the simple 

 branclilets or peduncles racemose along the upper side of the 

 wand-like spreading branches ; lowest leaves oblong-spatulate, 

 sometimes toothed ; the others linear-lanceolate or linear-awl- 

 shaped ; heads 6 mm. high or less; involucre hemispheric or 

 campnmilate ; bracts often nearly equal, with attenuate or 

 awl-shaped green tips. — Dry open places, N. E. to Out., 

 Minn., and southw. Aug.-Oct. Fig. 949. Var. vill6sus 943. a. polyphyllus. 

 T. & G. Similar, but the stem and generally the narrow leaves 



villous-hirsute. (Var. pilosus Porter.) — Same range. Var. 

 Pri'nglei Gray. A low slender northern form, with few erect 

 branches and rather small scattered mostly solitary heads. 

 {A. Pringlei Britton.) — Me. to Ont., s. to Mass. and Wise. 



Var. platyphyllus T. & G. Stout; stem and branches 

 densely white-villous ; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 mostly pubescent ; heads as in the typical form, but larger. — 

 O. to Mich., 111., and southw. 



34. A. depauperatus (Porter) Fernald. 

 1-4 dm. high ; basal leaves small, spatulate ; 

 949. A. ericoides. stem-leaves linear, those of the branches 

 linear-subulate ; heads small, 4-5 mm. high, 

 terminating the slender divaricate branches ; involucre tur- 

 binate, 2-3 mm. broad, of about 20 linear-subulate bracts, 

 these less rigid than those of the preceding species. {A. 

 ericoides, var. pusiUus Gray, and var. depauperatus Porter.) 

 — Serpentine barrens, s. Pa. and adjacent W. Va. July- 

 Sept. Fig. 950. 



Var. parviceps (Burgess) Fernald. Stout, pilose, 3-7 95^^ ^ depauperatus. 

 dm. high ; leaves linear or lanceolate ; heads rather crowded. 



{A. ericoides, var. Burgess.) — Prairies and woods, 111. 

 and Mo. 



•t- -1- Hoary -pubescent or hirsute ; herbaceous tips of the 

 more or less bristly-ciliate involucral bracts squarrose 

 or spreading; cauline leaves small, linear, entire, 

 scarcely narrowed at the sessile or partly clasping base; 

 heads numerous, small, racemose. 



35. A. amethystinus Nutt. Tall (0.5>-1.5 m. high), up- 

 right, much branched, puberulent or somewhat hirsute ; 

 A. amethystinus. leaves not rigid; heads 6 mm. high j the tips of the bracts 



Slender, glabrous, 



951, 



