ENGELMANNIA PINNATIFIDA. 
CUT-LEAVED ENGELMANN FLOWER. 
NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSITA. 
ENGELMANNIA PINNATIFIDA, Torrey and Gray.—A perennial branching, rough and hirsute 
herb with branching stems, corymbose paniculate at the summit, and bearing several small 
heads on slender peduncles. Leaves alternate, strigose, oblong or ovate lanceolate, ir- 
regularly pinnatifid, with the segments lanceolate or linear (the lower longest or divaricate), 
sessile, the radical petiolate and bipinnatifid. Rays yellow, terdily deciduous, pubescent 
externally, Heads many-flowered; the ray flowers equal in number to the inner scales 
of the involucre (eight to ten) and situated in their axils, ligulate, pistillate; involucre in 
three series, coriaceo-chartaceous, broadly ovate or obovate, appressed, the exterior short- 
est, all abruptly narrowed into a foliaceous lanceolate or linear spreading appendage, the 
exterior exceeding the scale itself in length. Receptacle flat; the chaff persistent, char- 
taceous, with foliaceous and hairy tips, partly involute and enclosing the sterile flowers ; 
the outer series lanceolate acute, two firmly adherent to the base of each involucral scale; 
the others very narrowly linear, rather obtuse. Corolla of the ray with an oblong exserted 
sessile ligule; of the disc dilated upwards, fine-toothed, the teeth somewhat hairy, style in 
the sterile flowers undivided hispid. Achenia of the ray equal in size to the concave inner 
involucral scales to which they are applied, oval-obovate, obcompressed, convex and car- 
inate externally, flat or concave, and one-ridged on the inside, scabrous pubescent, not 
winged or toothed, crowned with two small scarious lanceolate concave marcescent squa- 
melle, which are more or less united at the base, hispid and fringed; those of the disc 
filiform, abortive, with a minute coroniform pappus. (Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North 
America.) 
“HEN ‘proposing to ourselves to prepare the present 
work, it was not our intention to make it botanical 
in its strictest sense, but that while botanically accurate, it 
should rather be a work for the whole people. Hence it was 
decided to give only the characters of the species in full, con- 
fining the text to those facts in relation to the genera and the 
orders, which might serve to illustrate some general lesson. By 
the long quotation we have now given from Torrey and Gray, it 
might be supposed we had forgotten this original plan, and the 
’ may startle some who have 
long paragraph of “hard words’ 
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