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* * Heads small : involucre a/lindrical, scarcely iTiibricated. 



2. H> scabnim, Michx. (Bough HA.wKWJiED.) Stem rather stout 

 (l°-3°high), leafy, rough-hairy; the stiff flexuons panicle at first racemose, 

 at length rather corymbose ; the thiokish peduncles and the hoary 40 - 50-flow- 

 ered involucre densely clothed with dark glandular bristles ; achenia columnar, not 

 tapering at the summit; leaves obovate or oval, nearly entire, hairy. — Dry open 

 woods ; common, especially northward. Aug. 



3. H. longipllum, Torr. (Long-beasdxd Hawkweed.) Stem wand- 

 like, simple, stout (2° - 3° high), very leafy towards the base, naked above, and 

 bearing a small racemed panicle ; the lower portion and both sides of the ob- 

 long-lanceolate or spatulate entire leaves thickly clothed with very long and upright 

 bristles ; peduncles with the 20 - 30-flowerod involucre glandulai'-bristly ; achenia 

 spindle-shaped, narrowed at the apex. — Prairies, Michigan to Dlinois, and west- 

 ward. Aug, — Heads intermediate between the last and the next. Bristles 

 straight and even, as if combed, often 1' long ! 



4. H. Gronovii, L. (Hairy Hawkweed.) Stem wand-like, mostly 

 simple, Imfy and very hairy below, naked above and forming a long and naiTow 

 panicle ; leaves oblong or obovate, nearly entire, hairy ; the slender peduncles 

 and the 30 - 30-flowered involucre sparingly glandular-bristly ; acherua spindle- 

 shaped, with a very taper summit. — Dry sterile soil ; common, especially south- 

 ward. Aug. — Varies from l°-4° high; with small heads and almost beaked 

 fruit, which well distinguishes the largest forms from No. 2, and the smallest 

 naked-stemmed states from the next. 



5. H. vcnosum, L. (Battlesnake-wbed.) Stem or scape nakedor 

 with a single leaf, smooth and slender, forking above into a spreading loose corymb ; 

 root-leaves obovate or oblong, nearly entire, scarcely petioled, thin and pale, 

 purplish and glaucous underneath (often hairy along the midrib), marked with 

 purple veins ; peduncles very slender ; involucre 20-flowered ; achenia linear, not 

 tapering above. — Var. suBCAULfiscENS has the stem more or less leafy next 

 the base. — Dry plains and pine woods ; common. — Plant 1° - 2° high. 



6. H. paniculatlim, L. (Panicled Hawkweed.) Stem slender, 

 leafy, diffusely branched, hairy below (2° -3° high) ; leaves lanceolate, acute at 

 both ends, slightly toothed, smooth ; heads (very small) in a loose panicle, on slen- 

 rier diverging peduncles, 12-20;^u;er«i; achenia short, not tapering at the sum- 

 mit. — Open woods ; rather common. 



77. nABALiUS, Cass. Eattlbsnake-koot. 



Heads few - many-flowered. Involucre cylindrical, of 5 to 14 linear scales in 

 a single row, and a few small hractlets at the base. Achenia linear-oblong, stri- 

 ate or grooved, not contracted at the apex. Pappus of copious straw-color or 

 brownish roughish capillary bristles. — Perennial herbs, with upright leafy stems 

 arising from spindle-shaped (extremely bitter) tubers, very variable leaves, and 

 racemose-panicled mostly nodding heads. Flowers groenish-white or cream- 

 color, often tinged with purple. (Name probably from va^\a, a harp, in allu- 

 sion to the lyrate leaves which these plants sometimes present.) Species of 

 Prenanthes, L. 



