anjsopsis. COMPOSITE. 121 



with snbcordate-clasping base : involncre 3 to 5 lines high : rays about 20 ; their akenes 

 mostly glaliiMus and olisiurely ii-ouued: uuter ]ia|i])us nf the di.-k-liowers conspiruouf, — " 

 //. Laiimrckii &. H. snihra (al^o apparently H. Clni/.-uj'sitlls & H. le/iloiiloiss<i], DC. 1. c. 317. 

 //. niid'ru (rar. Cali/ciiim & var. nada, wliich are coutlnent), Torr. i tiray, 1"1. ii. 251. 

 H. latlfolia, Buckley iu Proc. Arail. Philad. 18l'il, 45'.!. Inula siilxixiliaris. Lam. Diit. 

 iii. 2,")',i, tide Ca.-.<. /., «■»/:/. i, Pursli, Fl. ii. 531. ( Vkv/so/i.ms sntbra, Xutt. Geu. ii. 151 ; Kll. 

 Sk. ii. 339; Bertol. :\Iise. vii. t. 4. — Sandy or barren dry soil, coast of Carolina to Tc.va.^, 

 -Vrkansas. 8. Arizona, and perhaps within the borilers of California. (Mcx. In oriijinal 

 sjiccinions of //. Clin/sopsiihs, lIC. and others from Saliill'. &c., a setose pajipus to the ray- 

 tlowcrs only abnormally occurs. II. hpioylossn, DC, lias the crown of tlie ray-akenes with 

 a sharp and sometimes nudulate edge. In I'arry & Palmer's no. 373 the crown is more 

 salient and setnloseHlentieulate !) 

 •H. grandiflora, Xl-tt. Villons-hispid or hirsute : stem stont. from a foot to 6 feet liigli, 

 bearing ratliev large (sometimes rather small) lic;;ds : catdiue leaves not clasping, or hardly 

 so. and clasping base of petioles of the low est occasionally wauting : involucre 4 or 5 lines 

 high' rays about 30; their akenes mmutely pubescent or glabrate : ouier pappus of the 

 disk-llowcvs b'ss conspii,'notts ; style-appendages shorter. mt.>stly obtuse. — Trans. Am. Phil. 

 S(.'C. ^ii. 315 ; IVirr. >ic Gray. 1. c. IJi/ihiMij>]m:i srnlnr. Hook. PI. ii. 22. UeUrotheca fiori- 

 hiindti, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 24. //. florihmula (exel. pi. Coulter, whicli belongs to the pre- 

 ceding and is probably from .Vri.'.ona) i //. <p-aniiirlora. Gray, Bot. Calif, i. SOS. — California 

 from Sant:i Barbara southwiu'd aud east to the borders of Xevada. — Heads always smaller 

 than those of H. iiitih>n!u<, sometimes no larger tlian of the preceding species. 



27. CHRYSOPSIS, ^■lltt. (Xpio-os. 5^(s, of golden a.=pect. from the 

 color of the blossom.') ^Ilerbs (^N. American, extending into IMexico), mostly 

 ]icrenni;ils : with silky, lanate, hirsute or hispid pubescence, or rarely glabrou.-. 

 entire or sometiuu-s few-toothed leaves, the cauline sessile, and middle-^ized heads 

 of yellow tlowcrs terminating the stem aud branches ; in late summer aud 

 aiuumn : pappus commonly fuscous or feiTiigiuous. — Gen. ii. 150, under Inula : 

 DC. Frodr. t. olH'. : Torr. c'c Ciray. Fl. ii. i.VJ. 



§ 1. ErCHRYsorsTS, Heads radiate : outer short pappus mostly manifest. 



* Lcavos narrow, elongated and nervose, ajamineous or rather Luzula-like; whole herbage seri- 

 ceous-kuiate. ot iu age glabrate: root lUTonni.il: akenes compressed-fusiform; outer pap]ms 

 sipianiellate-setidose. — Pitijojifis, Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. vii. -317. 



C. graminifolia, Xi tt. Sicm a foot or two high, slender, generally leafy, stoloniferons 

 undergroimd: lea\es 3-5-uerved or striate, silvery-sericei-'Us. at least when youug, lanceolate 

 to linear; radical a span to a foot long; cauline successively shorter and becoming linear- 

 subulate, erect ; heads few or several and paniculate : involucre (half-inch or less high) 

 somewhat turbinate; its regularly imbricated biacrs many-ranked, glabrate, sometimes 

 granulose-glandular on the back : peduncles w-hen glabrate often hirtellous-glaudul.'.r. — 

 Torr. & Cirav, Fl. ii. 252 ; Bertol. Jlisc. Bot. vii. t. 3. C. aramhii/o:iii & C. an/entea, Nutt. 

 tren. ii. 151 ; Ell. Sk. iii. 234; DC. Prodr. %. 326. C. oligajitha, Chapm. Fl. 216, an early- 

 fioweriug form with few leaves and heads. Inula praminifblin, Michx. Fl. ii. 122, /. argentfa, 

 I'ers. Swi. ii. 452. JCriyeron neiTosiim, WiUd. Spec. iii. 1953. E. glandulosiim, Poir. Hict. 

 viii. 4S7. Diphpappns fframini/oliin. 'Less, in Linn. v. 310. D. sf/ ctiis. Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 ]\Iai;- i. 97. Pili/^'ivis {^.ricophi/llum) ^aminijo'id & (n-gentea, Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 



1. c." Prv pine barrens or sandy ground, JIarylaud to Florida and Texas ; fl. autumn. A 



characteristic but variable species : leaves from 1 to 9 lines wide, and heads when numerous 

 smaller than when few. (Jlex. Probably Hectorea riilosisslma, DC.) 



Var. aspera (C. aspera, Sluittle\\. in distrib. coll. Eugel), a glabrate rigid and poly- 

 eephalous state, near St. Marks. Florida (probably on the very coast), the stem and leaves 

 sparselv glandnlar-hispidulous ! 



C. pinifolia, Ell. a foot high, slender (the flowering branches almost filiform); very 

 earlv glabrate, appearing glabrous, smooth throughout : lowest leaves narrowly linear and 

 2_;;-ni"rved (at most a line and a half wide, 2 to 6 inches loni) : cauline filiform: hexids 

 solitar\ terminating the branches, or corymbose pedimculate, nearly as large as the average in 



