ORDER 70. COMPOSITE. 455 



toothed or incised, upper subclasping; scales very hairy, longer than the disk; 

 disk corollas with subulate teeth ; receptacle fimbrillate, with slender awns. (T) 

 La., Tex, and in gardens. St branching. Hds. 1 to !' diam. Rays 10 to 12, 

 violet-purple, with yellow teeth. 



63. POLYPTERIS, Xutt. (Gr. TroAvc, many, -rtpov, a wg ; from 

 the feather-like pappus.) Heads discoid ; flowers all perfect, tubular 

 and similar ; scales flat, scarious, in 2 or 3 series, appressed ; receptacle 

 naked; achenia 4-angled, slender at base; pappus of 6 to 12 mem- 

 branous, pinnately striate scales. Lvs. scattered, lanceolate. Fls. 

 cyanic. (Palafoxia, T. & G.) 



P. integrifolia Xutt. Eough; st corymbous above; Ivs. linear-lanceolate, 

 entire ; outer scales loose, acuta, inner obtuse ; pappus of 8 to 10 acuminate 

 squamae with fringed or plumed edges. Barrens, S. "W. Ga. and Mid. Fla. 

 Sts. 3 to of high, bearing the large, purplish heads in a level-topped corymb. 

 Aug. Oct. 



64. HYMENOPAP'PUS, L'Her. (Gr. vp/v, membrane, rrdmrvo^ pap- 

 pus; from the character.) Heads many-flowered; flowers all perfect, 

 tubular; scales 6 to 12, in 2 series, oval, obtuse, membranaceous, 

 colored; receptacle small, naked ; anthers exserted ; achenia broad at 

 the summit, attenuate to the base ; pappus of many short, obtuse, 

 membranous scales in one series. (g) or U North American, villous 

 herbs. St. grooved and angled. Lvs. alternate, pinnately divided. 



H. scabiosesus L'Her. Hoary-villas, or nearly glabrous; Ivs. pinhalely or bi- 

 pinnately parted, segments linear or oblong, entire or sparingly toothed ; hds. 

 in simple corymbs; scales obovate, 7 11, white, greenish at base, undulate on 

 the margin, longer than the disk ; cor. deeply lobed ; ach. pubescent. 111. to 

 Fla. Stem 1 2f high, whitish with soft cotton when young, at length purplish 

 and glabrous. Segments 1 14-' by 1 2", rather acute. Hds. whitish, about 

 21-flowered. Apr., May. (South.) Aug. 



65. HELE^NIUM, L. AMERICAN SNEEZEWORT. (Xamed for the 

 celebrated Helen, who is said to have availed herself of its cosmetic 

 properties.) Involucre double, the outer of leafy, narrow scales, the 

 inner chaffy ; ray pistillate ; pappus of several 5-awned, chaffy leaves ; 

 receptacle globous, naked in the disk, and chaffv in the ray only ; ray 

 flowers half 3-cleft ; seed villous. Lvs. alternate, decurrent. Rays 

 yellow. 



Disk slobular. its florets with a 5-toothed coroila. ................................ Nos. 1 3 



Disk oblong, its florets with a 4-toothed corolla ...................................... No. 4 



1 H. autumnale L. Lvs. lanceolate, serrate, smooth or slightly pubescent, de- 

 current ; fis. loosely corymbcus. II In damp places. St. 2 to 3f high, branching 

 strongly, winged by the decurrent Ivs. Lvs. tapering to each end, or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, more or less deeply serrate. Fls. large, numerous, terminal, with 

 drooping rays, each ending in 3 obtuse teeth, and longer than the large, globous 

 disk. The plant is very bitter. Aug. 



ft. CAXALICULATUM. Rays concave, canaliculate or 3-furrowed. (H. canalicu- 

 latum Lam.) 



2 H. parviflonim Xutt. Lvs. lanceolate, subentire. smooth, scarcely decurrent ; 

 hds. solitary, or in small, scattered clusters. Ga. (XuttalL) Heads about half as 

 large as in No. 1. Disk globous, longer than the filiform scales. Rays flat. 

 Pappus scales awned, half as long as the corolla Ach. smooth. 



3 H. tenuifolium Xutt. Smoothish: branches numerous, fastigiate, very leafy ; 

 Ivs. linear or filiform, entire, fascicled; scales subulate: disk globous. Fields, 

 waysides, Ga. (Feay, Pond) to La. St 1 to 2f high, naked and woody below, 



