SoLiDAGo. COMPOSITiE. 367 



p. 540 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 392 ; Torr. compend. p. 303 ; Beck, hot. p. 194 ; DC. prodr. 5. p. 341 ; 

 Torr. (f- Gr.Jl. N. Am. 2. p. 226. S. lanceolata, /3. mi-^or, Michx.fl. 2. p. 116. Euthamia 

 graminifoiia, Nutt. gen. 2. p. 162, and trans. Amer.phit. soc. I. c. 



Stem slender, 15 inches - 2 feet high, the lower part often naked. Leaves 2-3 inches 

 long and about a line in breadth, ofte.i with smaller leaves fascicled in the axils, marked with 

 minute resinous dots. Heads smaller and less crowded tiian in the preceding species. 



Sandy fields ; abundant in Suffolk county, Long Island. Augiist - October. This species 

 is in general easily distinguished from the preceding by its narrow leaves and more slender 

 habit, but sometimes forms occur which seem almost to connect them. 



11. CHRYSOPSIS. Nutt. gen. 2. p. 150 ; Ton: ^- Gr. Jl. N. Am. 2. p. 352. 



CURYSOPSIS. 



[From the Greek, chrijsos, gold, and opsis, resemblance ; the prevailing color of the flowers being yellow.] 



Heads many-flowered : ray-flowers ligulate, pistillate, in a single series ; those of the disk 

 tubular, perfect, 5-loothed. Scales of the involucre linear, imbricate. Receptacle some- 

 what alveolate, flat. Branches of tho style mostly terminated by linear hispid appendages, 

 often longer than the flat sligmatic portion. Achenia obovate or oblrng-linear, compressed, 

 hairy. Pappus of the disk and ray similar, double ; the exterior short, somewhat chaffy 

 or setiform ; tl.e interior of numerous rough capillary bristles. — Perennial plants, mostly 

 villous or silky, with oblong or linear usually entire leaves. Heads mostly corymbose, 

 showy. Flowers yellow. 



1. Chrysopsis falcata, E!l. (Plate LVI.) Sickle-leaved Chrysopsis. 



Stems assurgent, woclly ; leaves crowded, linear, mucronate, rigid, spreading or falcate, 

 about 3-nerved, hairy underneath, at length nearly smooth above ; heads (small) paniculate- 

 corymbed, the pedicels slender; scales of the involucre villous; achenia oblong-linear; 

 exterior pappus setiform. — Ell. sk. 2. p. 336 (note); Beck, hot. p. 177; DC. prodr. 5. 

 p. 326 ; Torr. <^ Gr. jl. N. Am. 2. p. 253. Inula falcata, Pursli, Jl. 2. p. 532 ; Torr. 

 compend. p. 291. I. (Chrysopsis) Mariana, fS., Nutt. gen. 2. p. 151. Pityopsis falcata, 

 Nutt, in trans. Amer. phil. soc. (n. ser.) 7. p. 318. 



Stems often several from one root, curved, very leafy, 6-10 inches high, slender, clothed 

 with a whitish tomentum. Leaves 1-3 inches long and scarcely more than a line wide, with 

 3 prominent longitudinal nerves. Heads 5 - 20, in a rather loose simple or compound corymb. 

 Involucre hemispherical ; the scales acute, somewhat carinate. Rays about 12. Pappus 

 cinnamon-colored. Achenia attenuate at each end. 



Sandy fields, Suffolk county. Long Island ; abundant near Easthampton. August - Sep- 

 tember. 



