176 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



§ 1. Bristles of the male pappus hardly at all thickened but minutely barbellatt 

 near the apex : alcenes puberulent : bracts of the involucre brownish. 

 1. A. dimorpha, Torr. & Gray. Depressed, cespitose from a stout mul- 

 ticipital caudex, bearing rosulate clusters of spatulate leaves : heads solitary 

 and subsessile at the crown, or raised on a sparsely-leaved stem of an inch or 

 less in height : male head 4 lines high, with broad and obtuse involucral 

 bracts; female becoming i to f inch long, the inner bracts narrow and long- 

 attenuate into a hyaline acuminate tip : pappus of the fertile flowers of long 

 tnd fine smooth bristles. — Fl. ii. 431. Dry hills, from Wyoming to California 

 and British Columbia. 

 § 2. Bristles of the male pappus stouter, with thickish and clavate or scarious- 



dilated tips. 

 * Not surculose-stoloniferous : stems simple from the subterranean branching cau- 

 dex, leafy, naked at summit, and bearing a cluster of broad heads: inner 

 bracts of the male involucre all with conspicuous ivory-white papery obtuse tips ; 

 those of the female with hardly any tips and more scarious : herbage silvery- 

 lanate. 

 2 A. luzuloides, Torr. & Gray. Closely silky-woolly : stems slender, a 

 span to a foot high . leaves all narrowly linear, or some of the lowest narrowly 

 lanceolate-spatulate, small uppermost linear-subulate : heads small (2 lines, or 

 the female barely 3 lines long), several or numerous : involucre glabrous nearly 

 or quite to the base ; the inner bracts in the female heads obtuse : akenes gland- 

 ular : the spatulate and as it were petaloid tips of the male pappus obtuse. 

 — Fl. ii. 430. From Wyoming to Oregon and British Columbia. 



3. A. Carpatllica, R- Br. Floccosel// white-woolly, rather stout : lower 

 leaves spatulate-lanceolate and the upper linear : heads broad, 3 or 4 lines long: 

 involucre conspicuously woolly at base, more or less livid, except the white tipt 

 to the bracts of the male ; the inner bracts of the female commonly acutish 

 and thin-scarious : akenes smooth and glabrous. — In the Northern Rocky 

 Mountains, and extending south to Oregon ; represented in the lower Rocky 

 Mountains as far south as New Mexico, by the 



Var. pulcherrima, Hook. Stems 6 to 1 8 inches high : leaves mostly 

 larger, the radical often half an inch or even almost an inch wide : heads more 

 numerous, often in a compound cyme : bristles of the male pappus with more 

 strongly and abruptly or even scariously dilated tips. 



* * Surculose-proliferous by either subterranean or leafy shoots or stolons. 

 *- Heads in a cijmose cluster, sometimes solitary : involucre woolly at base. 



4. A. alpina, GEertn. Somewhat cespitose: radical shoots few and short : 

 flowering stems 1 to 4 inches high, bearing 2 to 5 heads, sometimes a single 

 head: radical leaves spatulate, $ inch long: involucre 3 lines high, livid-brown- 

 ish ; the inner of the male heads with whitish oblong tips, of the female 

 wholly livid and scarious and from acutish to acuminate : akenes glandular. — 

 High mountains of Colorado and California, and far northward. 



o. A. dioica, Gsertn. Freely surciilose and forming broad mats : flowering 

 stems 2 to 8 or even 12 inches high, bearing few or numerous heads : radical 

 leaves from obovate to spatulate, half-inch to nearly an inch long, rarely glabrate 

 above: bracts of the involucre in both sexes with colored (white or rose-colored) 



