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69. ONOPORDON. Achenia wrinkled transTersely, 4-aDgletl. Pappus not plumoBe. Recep- 



tacle honeycombed 



70. LAPPA. Achenia wrinkled, flattened. Pappus of short and rough bristles. Recep- 



tacle bristly. 



Suborder U. LIGULIFLOR^. 



Corolla ligulate in all the flowers of the head, and all the flowers per- 

 fect. — Herbs with milky juice. Leaves alternate. 



* Pappus none. 



71. LAMPSANA. InYolucre cylindrical, of 8 scales in a single row, 8 - 12-flowered. 



* * Pappus chaffy, or of both chaff and bristles. 



72. CICHORIUM. Pappus a small crown of little bristle-form scales. Involucre double. 

 73 ERIGIA. Pappus of 6 broad chaffy scales, and 5 bristles. 



74. CYNTHIA. Pappus double ; the outer short, of many minute chaffy scales, the inner of 



numerous long capillary bristles. 



# * # Pappus plumose. 



75. LEONTOBON. Bristles of the pappus several, chaffy-dilated at the base. 



« * * # Pappus composed entirely of capillary bristles, not plumose. 

 ■(- Pappus tawny or dirty white : achenia not flattened or beaked. 



76. HTERACIUM. Achenia oblong : pappus a single series. Flowers yellow. Scales of the 



involucre unequal. 



77. NABALUS. Achenia cylindrical : pappus copious. Flowers whitish or purplish. Scales 



of the involucre cgual. 



••- ••- Pappus bright white, except in No. 80 and in one Mulgedium. 



78. TROXIMON. Achenia linear-oblong, not beaked. Pappus of copious and unequal bris- 



tles, some of them rigid. 

 79 TARAXACUM. Achenia long-beaked, terete, ribbed. Pappus soft and white. 



80. PTRRHOPAPPXJS. Achenia long-beaked, nearly terete. Pappus soft, reddish or tawny. 



81. LACTUCA. Achenia abruptly long-beaked, flat. Pappxis soft and white. 



82 MULGEDIUM. Achenia flattish, with a short thick beak. Pappus soft Flowers blue. 

 88. SONCHUS. Achenia flattish, beakless. Pappus very soft and fine. Flowers yellow. 



1. VEBBTONIA, Schrcb. Iron-weed. 



Heads 15 -many-flowered, in corymbose cymes; flowers all perfect. Invo- 

 lucre shorter than the flowers, of many appressed closely imbricated scales. 

 Receptacle naked. Achenia cylindrical, ribbed. Pappus double ; the outer 

 of minute scale-like bristles; the inner of copious capillary bristles. — Peren- 

 nial herbs, with altematc leaves and mostly purple flowers. (Named in honor 

 of Mi; Vernon, an early English botanist who travelled in this country.) 



1. V- ]Vovel>OraceilSiS, Willd. Scales of the involucre tipped with a 

 hng bristle-form or awl-shaped spreading appendage or avm; in some varieties 

 merely pointed. — Low grounds near the coast, Maine to Virginia; and river- 

 banks in the Western States, from Wisconsin southward. Aug. — A tall 

 coarse weed with lanceolate or oblong leaves. 



2. V. fascicillata, Michx. Scales of the involucre (all but the lowest) 

 rounded and obtuse, without appendage — Prairies and river-banks, Ohio to Wis- 

 consin and southward. Aug. — Leaves nan-owly or broadly lanceolate : heads 

 mostly crowded. "Very -variable, and passing into No. 1. 



