GENUS 14. THISTLE FAMILY, 375 
7. Chrysopsis hispida (Hook.) Nutt. Hispid 
Golden Aster. Fig. 4201. 
Diplopappus hispidus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am, 2: 22. 1834. 
7: 
rn hig eee ; 
Git) Phos jusbidas Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 
Chrysopsis villos ispi : 
el ae, a var. hispida A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 
. Lower than C. villosa, stem rarely over 1° high, with 
spreading, sparse or copious, hirsute or hispid pu- 
bescence, sometimes viscid. Leaves spatulate to 
oblong, entire, spreading, 9-18” long, obtuse at the 
apex, narrowed at the base, often into petioles half 
as long as the blade or more; heads smaller, often 
more numerous; involucre not over 4” high, its 
bracts lanceolate, hirsute; achenes 3-5-nerved. 
In dry soil, Manitoba to Idaho, Kansas, Texas and 
Arizona. Consists of several races, differing in size 
pubescence and leaf-form. July—Sept. eae 
WL ‘ 
8. Chrysopsis pildsa Nutt. Nuttall’s Golden 
Aster. Fig. 4202. 
Che ysebsis pilosa Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 7: 
. 1834. 
C. Nuttallii Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 316. 1894. 
Pilose-pubescenit with soft hairs and minutely glan- 
dular, 1°-2° high, branched above. Leaves ‘oblong- 
lanceolate, mostly acute, 1’-23’ long, 2”-5” wide, 
entire, or the lower serrate or even incised; heads 
few, 8”-12” broad, terminating the branches; invo- 
lucre hemispheric, its bracts glandular-viscid ; achenes 
obovate, 10-nerved. : 
In dry soil, Missouri and Kansas to Louisiana, Arkan- 
sas and Texas. July—Sept. 
15. CHONDROPHORA Raf. New FI. N. 
A. 4: 79. 1836. 
[BiceLow1a DC. Mem. Comp. fl. 5. 1833. Not Bigelovia Spreng. 1821.] 
Perennial stiff herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and corymbose-paniculate discoid 
heads of yellow flowers. Involucre oblong or campanulate, its bracts rigid and glutinous, 
imbricated in several series. Receptacle flat, generally foveolate, naked. Corolla regular, 
tubular, the limb 5-cleft. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches flattened, their 
appendages lanceolate. -Achenes oblong, somewhat compressed, I-2-ribbed on each side. 
Pappus of I or 2 series of numerous capillary unequal bristles. [Greek, cartilage-bearing.] 
Two species, native of eastern North America, the following typical. 
1. Chondrophora nudata (Michx.) Britton. Rayless Golden 
Chrysocoma nudata Michx. Fl. Bor.Am.2: 101. 1803. Qo nF 
Bigelowia nudata DC. Prodr. 5: 329. 1836. ‘ 
C. nudata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 317. 18094. 
Glabrous, erect, simple, 1°-23° high. Lower 
and basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, or obtusish, 
3’-6’ long, 3-6” wide, attenuate into a margined 
petiole; stem leaves distant, small, linear or subu- 
late; heads numerous, 2-3” high, crowded in a 
compound terminal corymbose cyme; involucre 
narrowly campanulate, acute at the base, its bracts 
coriaceous, appressed, linear-oblong, imbricated 
in 3 or 4 series, the outer much smaller than the 
inner; achenes_ short-turbinate; pappus-bristles 
rigid; edges of the depressions in the receptacle 
prolonged into subulate teeth. 
In moist pine-barrens, New Jersey (?) to Florida 
and Texas. Aug.—Oct. 
Chondrophora virgata (Nutt.) Greene, with nar- 
rowly linear basal leaves, or some of them ‘linear- 
spatulate, though originally cited by Nuttall as from 
New Jersey, is not definitely known from north of 
North Carolina. 
-rod. Fig. 4203. 
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