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florets with arms ending in long, acute tips. Cypsela of ray- 
florets dorsally compressed, smooth, with 2 lacerate wings; of 
central florets few, narrower, compressed or trigonous, often 
. pappus in both represented by spines at the top of the 
angles, 
1094, SynEDRELLA NoprFLoRA Gaertn.; F. B. I. iii. 308. 
C. Bengal ; in cultivated ground. 
An erect, branching, annual herb. 
478, Glossocardia Cass. 
branched annual, glabrous herb; leaves alternate, slender, 
1-2-pinnatisect. Flower-heads small, terminal and axillary, 
eterogamous, rayed; ray-florets female, usually solitary; disk- 
florets hermaphrodite, few, all fertile ; involucre oblong; bracts 
few, outer 1-8 slender, herbaceous, inner oblong, with broad, 
membranous margins; receptacle flat, small; pales few, flat. 
Calyx-limb 2-toothed. Petals of ray-florets connate in ligulate 
corollas, with 2-fid lamina; of hermaphrodite florets connate in 
regular tubular corollas, with 4-fid limb. Stamens syngenesious ; 
anthers with obtuse, entire base. Style of hermaphrodite florets 
with arms ending in linear, acute, hispid tips. Cypsela narrowly 
oblong, dorsally much compressed ; faces bearded ; pappus of 2 
Smooth, stiff awns. ; 
1095. Grossocarpra LineartFrouia Cass.; F. B. I. iii. 308; E. D. 
G. 247. Verbesina Boswellia F. 1. iii. 443, 
W. Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A prostrate or, rarely, erect, diffusely branched, glabrous 
annual, Hind. Seri. 
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479, Cosmos Cav. 
Annual or perennial, often tall herbs ; leaves opposite, entire, 
atisect. ’lower-heads large or medium, long- 
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