COMPOSITAE (composite FAMILY) 827 



* * Stem-leaves auriculate-dasping. 

 3. P. auriculatum Britton. Rootstock very thick and tuber-like ; stem 4-7 

 dm. high, villous : sr-me of the leaves pinnatilid at base, pubescent on tlie veins 

 beneath with conspicuous appressed strongly divergent hairs. —Mts. of Va. 



39. IVA L. Marsh Elder. Highwater-surlb 



Heads several-flowered, not radiate ; pistillate and staniinate flowers in the 

 same heads, the former few and marginal. Anthers nearly separate. Bracts 

 of the involucre few, roundish. Receptacle small, with narrow chaff among the 

 flowers. Achenes obovoid or lenticular ; pappus none. — Herbaceous or shrul^by 

 coarse plants, with thickish leaves (the lower opposite) and small noddin"- 

 greenish-white heads of flowers ; in summer and autunm. (Name of unknown 

 derivation.) 



§ 1. EUlVA Hoffra. Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf- 

 like bracts ; fertile flowers with evident corolla. 



1. I. oraria Bartlett. Shrubby at base, nearly smooth, 5-10 dm. higli ; leaves 

 oval or lanceolate, coarsely and sharply toothed, fleshy, the upper reduced to 

 linear bracts, in the axils of which the heads (;5-G mm. in diameter) are disposed 

 in leafy panicled racemes ; fertile flowers and bracts of involucre 5. (I.friites- 

 cens Man. ed. 6, not L.) — Salt marshes, coast of Mass. to Md. 



2. I. imbricata Walt. Suffruticose, glabrous, simple, 3-C dm. hiiih ; leaves 

 alternate, fleshy, spatulate-oblong or lanceolate, entire or slightly serrate ; heads 

 6-8 mm. high; hemispherical involucre of 6-9 bracts, the outer orbicular.— 

 Sandy coast, Va., and southw. 



3. I. ciliata Willd. Annual, 3-6 dm. high, rough and hairy ; leaves ovate, 

 pointed, coarsely toothed, downy beneath, on slender ciliate petioles; heads in 

 dense spikes, with conspicuous ovate-lanceolate rough-ciliate bracts ; bracts of 

 the involucre and fertile flowers 3-5. —Moist ground, 111. to Neb., and southw.; 

 occasionally on dumps, etc. , eastw. 



§ 2. CYCLACHAENA (Eresenius) Gray. Heads in panicled spikes, scarcely 

 bracteate; corolla of the d fertile flowers a mere rudiment or none. 



4. I. xanthifblia Nutt. Annual, tall, roughish ; leaves nearly all opposite, 

 hoary with minute down, ovate, rhombic, or the lowest heart-shaped, doubly or 

 incisely toothed, or obscurely lobed ; heads small, crowded, in axillary and 

 terminal panicles. — Ont. and Mich, to Assina., Kan., westw. and southwestw. ; 

 locally established eastw. 



40. AMBR6SIA [Tourn.] L. Ragweed 



Fertile heads 1-3 together, sessile in axils of leaves or bracts, at the base of 

 racemes or spikes of sterile heads. Sterile involucres flattish or tup-shaped, of 

 7-12 united bracts, containing 5-20 staminate flowers, with or without slender 

 chaff intermixed. Anthers almost separate. Fertile involucre (fruit) ellipsoid, 

 obovoid, or top-shaped, closed, pointed, resembling an acliene and inclosing a 

 single flower; elongated style-branches protruding. Achenes ovoid. — Coarse 

 homely weeds, with opposite or alternate lobed or dissected leaves, and incon- 

 spicuous greenish flowers, in late summer and autumn ; ours annuals, except 

 the last. (The Greek and later Latin name of several plants, as well as of the 

 food of the gods.) 



§ 1. Sterile heads sessile in a dense spike, the top-shaped involucre extended on 

 one side into a large lanceolate hooded bristly-hairy tooth or appendage ; 

 fertile involucre ellipsoid or ovoid and ^-angled. 



1. A. bidentata Michx. Hairy, 3-0 dm. high, very leafy; leaves alternate, 

 lanceolate, partly clasping, nearly entire, except a short lobe or tooth on each 

 side near the base; fruit with 4 stout spines and a central beak. — Prairies of 

 111. to Kan. , and southw. 



