242 COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



23. ANAFHALIS, EVERLASTING. (Greek, of no application.) 

 % (P- 223.) 



A. margaritacea, Benth. & Hook. Stem about 2° high, leafy to the 

 top ; the leaves lance-linear ; heads in a broad corymb, the fertile ones 

 with a few imperfect staminate flowers in the center ; scales of the invo- 

 lucre pearly white, rounded. Dry soil ; common. 



24. HELIPTERUM, EVERLASTING, IMMORTELLE. (Greek : sun 

 and wing, referring to the light plumed pappus.) Also known as 

 RhodAnthe. (p. 224.) 



H. Manglesii, E. Muell. Cult, in gardens for ornament, from Aus- 

 tralia ; a low smooth herb, with oblong and alternate clasping entire 

 leaves, and loosely corymbed, showy, nodding heads of yellow flowers, 

 the pearly involucre obovate or obconical, smooth, rose or white, very 

 ornamental, in summer. 



25. HELICHRYSUM, EVERLASTING, IMMORTELLE. (Greek, 

 referring to the golden flower heads.) (p. 223.) 



H. bracteatum, Andr. or (H. mackAnthum). From Australia; tall, 

 smoothish or slightly downy, with lanceolate leaves ; large heads termi- 

 nating the branches and with some leaf-like bracts on the peduncle, the 

 permanent and very numerous scales of the involucre very showy and 

 petal-like, spreading in many ranks, golden yellow, and with white vari- 

 eties. @ ® ' 



26. AMMOBIUM, EVERLASTING, IMMORTELLE. (Greek : mean- 

 ing living in sand.) ® (p. 224.) 



A. a latum, R. Br. l°-3° high, rather cottony ; root leaves oblong and 

 tapering downwards into a petiole ; stem leaves small and lanceolate, and 

 extended down the branches and stems in the form of leaf-like wings ; 

 heads solitary, with pearly white involucre surrounding yellow flowers. 

 Cult, from Australia. 



27. INULA, ELECAMPANE. (Ancient Latin name.) 2/ (P- 224.) 

 /. Helen ium, Linn. Common Elecampane. A stout herb, with stems 



3°-5° high, from a thick mucilaginous root (used in medioine) ; leaves 

 large, entire, woolly beneath, those from the root ovate and petioled, the 

 others partly clasping ; heads large, but the rays very narrow. In old 

 gardens and natural from Eu. by roadsides. 



28. POLTMNIA, LEAFCUP. (The muse, Polyhymnia, the dedica- 

 tion for no obvious reason.) 2/ (P- 226.) 



P. Canadensis, Linn. 3°-5° high, clammy-hairy ; leaves thin, the 

 lower pinnatifld, the upper 3-5-lobed or angled ; rays of the small heads 

 shorter than the involucre, few, pale-yellow and broad. Moist woods. 



P. TTvedalia, Linn. Roughish-hairy, stout, 4°-10° high ; leaves large, 

 ovate and angled or lobed, the upper ones sessile ; rays of the large head 

 10-15, bright yellow, longer than the involucre. Rich soil, N. Y., S. and W. 



29. SILPHIUM, ROSIN PLANT. (Ancient Greek name.) Flowers 

 summer and autumn. % (p. 226.) 



* Leaves alternate, large, most of them petioled. 



+- The stout and rough flowering stems (3°-6° high) leafy up to the few large 

 heads ; scales of involucre ovate, with tapering and spreading rigid tips. 



S. laciniatum, Linn. Rosinweed or Compass Plant, of prai- 

 ries, from Mich. W. and S., so called because the rough-hairy, deeply 



