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78 COMPOSITE. [ Leucomeris. 
Only a few are noteworthy as esculents, like garden-lettuce (Lactuca 
sativa), artichokes (Cynara scolymus), endive (Cichorium endivia), 
and a few others. 
* Flower-heads homogamous, discoid, the florets all tubu- 
ar 
lar, hermaphrodite, and regular or nearly so. Anthe 
usually fringed or tailed at 3 style usually slightly 
thickened at the e 0! narrow and blunt or 
Leucomeris, 
Pappus long, capi 3 » Simple. ‘ ° . 
%* %* Flower-heads homogamons, discoid, the florets all tubu- 
lar, hermap ite, and n o. <An- 
thers usually obtuse at base, without tails 3; style- 
branches subulat 1 acute, not swoll 
: : oat loaky' : at the base. 
ovoid, withou racts ; pappus of capillary bristles 
with a few, ora ring of short ones, outside. “8 ‘ ‘ €YNONLAs 
Female florets filiform ; pappus of simple capi bri 3 ane 
thers without tails si > : OR Ate ge Conyza. 
ers with fine tails 
ceous or soft ; style of the disk-florets branched. : - Blumea, 
Anthers with fine tails; involucral-bracts rigid; style of disk- 
florets simple ee . a ‘ « Pluchea, 
ing into ciliate tails. Style filiform, slightly thickened towards 
the apex, slightly 2-lobed. Achenes weeny almost terete, 5- 
Pere lb cata the Pappus consisting of numerous rough- 
-—Shrubs or small ¢ i i 
leaves. Flower-heads usually fe doe sad Ta ee eens, ee 
clusters, 
ae L, decora, Kz.—A tree (12—1543—44 1), leafless in H.S., 
young shoots white villous-tomentose 3 leaves elliptically- to 
involucre ¢. -cyathiform, narrowed into the scaly peduncle, the 4 
So bwrr : Y pedune 
bracts lanceolate, rigid, thinly arachnoid-woolly, ereee, the outer ones 
