COMPOSITAE. Vor. III. 
1. Gaillardia lutea Greene. Yellow Gaillardia. 
Fig. 4545. 
Gaillardia lutea Greene, Pittonia 5: 57. 1902. 
Stem roughish-puberulent or cinereous, usually branched, 
14°-2° high, the branches straight, nearly erect. Stem leaves 
sessile, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, roughish-puberulent, acute 
at the apex, narrowed to the base, 1’-2’ long, 2-5” wide; 
heads about 2’ broad, peduncled; bracts of the involucre about 
equalling the yellow disk; rays 8-12, yellow; style-tips with 
filiform hispid appendages; achenes villous at the base, or to 
beyond the middle; fimbrillae of the receptacle short or none; 
awns of the pappus slender. 
In dry woods, Missouri to Texas. July-Sept. Included, in our 
frst edition, in G. /anceolata Michx., of the Southern States. 
2. Gaillardia aristata Pursh. Great- 
flowered Gaillardia. Fig. 4546. 
Gaillardia aristata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 573. 1814. 
Perennial; stem simple, or little branched, 
hirsute or densely pubescent with jointed hairs, 
1°-3° high. Leaves firm, densely and finely 
pubescent, the lower and basal ones_petioled, 
oblong or spatulate, laciniate, pinnatifid or en- 
tire, mostly obtuse, 2’-5’ long; upper leaves ses- 
sile, lanceolate, or oblong, or slightly spatulate, 
smaller, entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid; 
heads 13’-4’ broad, long-peduncled; bracts of 
the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute; 
rays 10-18, yellow; style-tips with filiform ap- 
pendages; fimbrillae of the receptacle mostly 
longer than the achenes, which are villous at 
least at the base. 
On plains and prairies, Minnesota to Saskatche- 
wan, British Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico and 
Oregon. Adventive eastward. Leaves sometimes 
all basal. May-Sept. 
3. Gaillardia pulchélla Foug. Showy 
Gaillardia. Fig. 4547. 
Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris 
1786: 5. 1786, 
Annual; diffusely branched at the base, the 
branches ascending, 6-15’ high, or larger in 
cultivation, more or less hirsute or pubescent 
with jointed hairs. Leaves lanceolate, oblong, 
or the lower spatulate, 1-3’ long, entire, den- 
tate or sinuate-pinnatifid, all but the lowest 
sessile; heads 1’-3’ broad, long-peduncled, 
bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, 
hirsute or pubescent; rays 10-20, red or purple 
at the base, yellow toward the apex; style-tips 
with filiform hispid appendages; fimbrillae of 
the receptacle equalling or scarcely longer than 
the achenes, which are more or less villous, 
or glabrous. 
In dry soil, Nebraska and Missouri to Louisi- 
ana, Mexico and Arizona. May-Sept. 
