228 COMPOSITE. (composite family.) 



equal, in a single row. Achenia elongated at maturity, club-shaped, beset with 

 stalked glands above. Pappus none. — Slender perennials, with the alternate 

 thin and petioled leaves smooth and green above, white woolly beneath, and few 

 small (whitish) heads in a loose panicle, beset with glands (whence the name, 

 from ddrjv, a gland, and Kav\6s, a stem). 



1. A. bicolor, Hook. Leaves triangular, rather heart-shaped, with angu- 

 lar-toothed margins; petioles margined. — Moist woods, shore of Lake Supe- 

 rior, and westward. 



12. SERICOCARPUS, Nees. White-topped Aster. 



Heads ] 2 - 1 5-flowered, radiate; the rays about 5, fertile (white). Involucre 

 Somewhat cylindrical or club-shaped; the scales closely imbricated in several 

 rows, cartilaginous and whitish, appressed, with short and abrupt often spread- 

 ing green tips. Receptacle alveolate-toothed. Achenia short, inversely pyram- 

 idal, very silky. Pappus simple, of numerous capillary bristles. — Perennial 

 tufted herbs (1°- 2° high), with sessile somewhat 3-nerved leaves, and small 

 heads mostly in little clusters, disposed in a flat corymb. Disk-flowers pale 

 yellow. (Name from o-npiKos, silky, and Kapnos, fruit.) 



1. S. solidagineus, Nees. Smooth, slender; leaves linear, rigid, obtuse, 

 entire, with rough margins, tapering to the base ; heads narrow (3" long), in close 

 dusters, few-flowered; pappus white. — Thickets, S. New England to Virginia, 

 near the coast. July. 



2. S. COnyzoides, Nees. Somewhat pubescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 

 the lower spatulate, mostly serrate towards the apex, ciliate, veiny ; heads rather 

 loosely corymbed, obconical (4" -6" long); pappus rusty-color. — Dry ground: 

 common. July. 



3. S. tortifblius, Nees. Hoary-pubescent; leaves obovate or oblong-spatu- 

 late, short, (^' - 1' long), turned edgewise, both sides alike, nearly veinless ; heads 

 rather loosely corymbed, obovoid (4" -5" long); pappus white. — Pine woods, 

 Virginia and southward. Aug. 



13. ASTER, L. Starwort. Aster. 



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

 Scales of the involucre more or less imbricated, usually with herbaceous or leaf- 

 like tips. Receptacle flat, alveolate. Achenia more or less flattened. Pappus 

 simple, of capillary bristles. — Perennial herbs (or annual only in § 6), with co- 

 rymbed, panicled, or racemose heads ; flowering in autumn. Pays white, purple, 

 or blue : the disk yellow, often changing to purple. (Name da-rrjp, a star, from 

 the appearance of the radiate heads of flowers.) 



§ 1. CIOTIA, DC. Involucre obovoid-bell -shaped ; the scales regularly imbricated in 



several rows, oppressed, nearly destitute of herbaceous tips: rays 6-15 (white or 



marly so) : achenia slender: lower leaves large, heart-shaped, petioled, coarsely 



si rrate : heads in open corymbs. 



1. A. COrymbdsUS, Ait. Stem slender, somewhat zigzag; leaves thin, 



srOkthish, coarsely mid unequally serrate with sharp spreading teeth, sharp-pointed, 



ovate or ovate-lanceolate, all but the uppermost heart-shaped at the base and on 



