COMPOSITAE. Vor. III. 
1. Thymophylla aurea (A. Gray) Greene. 
Thyme-leaf. Fig. 4550. 
bal esas aurea A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II) 4: 91. 
1849. 
Hymena'herum aureum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 
42. 1883. 
T. aurea Greene; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. 3: 453. 18098. 
Annual, glabrous, 4’-12’ high, much branched; the 
leaves and involucre with large oval oil-glands. Leaves 
alternate, or the lower opposite, sessile or nearly so, 
very deeply parted into 5-9 linear-filiform, mostly 
entire, blunt segments; heads numerous, corymbose, 
6-10” broad, terminating the branches; involucre 
about 3” high, its bracts acute; rays about 12, 23’”-3” 
long; pappus of 6-8 erose truncate scales, somewhat 
longer than the thickness of the achene. 
Kansas and Colorado to Texas and New Mexico. 
June-Sept. 
88. PECTIS L. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10, 1221. 
1759. 
Annual or perennial, diffuse prostrate or erect, mostly glabrous herbs, gland-dotted and 
strong-scented, with opposite narrow sometimes ciliate leaves, and small usually cymose 
heads of both tubular and radiate yellow flowers. Involucre cylindric, oblong or campanu- 
late, its bracts in 1 series, narrow, keeled, distinct. Receptacle small, naked. Ray-flowers 
pistillate, the rays small, entire or 3-lobed. Disk-flowers perfect, their corollas with expanded, 
somewhat irregularly 5-cleft limbs. Anthers entire at the base. Style-branches of the disk- 
flowers very short, obtuse. Achenes linear, slightly angled, striate. Pappus of several or 
numerous scales, slender bristles or awns, sometimes with a few outer smaller additional 
ones. [Latin, pecten, comb, referring to the pappus.] 
About 75 species, natives of the warmer parts of America. Besides the following, about 10 
others occur in the southern and western parts of the United States. Type species: Pectis ciliaris L. 
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1. Pectis angustifolia Torr. Lemon-scented 
Pectis. Fig. 4551. 
Pectis angustifolia Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 214. 1827. 
_ Annual, much branched, 4’-12’ high, the branches 
diffuse or ascending. Leaves narrowly linear, sessile, 
obtusish, 4’-2’ long, 1” wide or less, often ciliate with 
a few bristles near the base; heads several or numer- 
ous, short-peduncled, about 3” broad; involucre short- 
cylindric or narrowly campanulate, its bracts about 8, 
linear, acutish, partly enclosing the outer achenes; rays 
few, 3-toothed, or entire; pappus a crown of 4-6 some- 
what united short scales, with or without 2 slender 
short awns. 
In dry soil, Nebraska and Colorado to Mexico and Ari- 
zona. Plant with the odor of lemons. May-Oct. 
89. ACHILLEA [Vaill.] L. Sp. Pl. 808. 1753. 
Herbs, mostly perennial, with erect leafy stems, finely 
dissected, pinnatifid or serrate alternate leaves, and small 
heads of both tubular and radiate flowers, corymbose at 
the ends of the stem and branches. Involucre obovoid, or campanulate, its bracts appressed, 
imbricated in few series, the outer shorter. Receptacle nearly flat or convex, chaffy, the mem- 
branous chaff subtending the disk-flowers. Ray-flowers pistillate, fertile, the rays white or 
pink. Disk-flowers perfect, fertile, their corollas yellow, 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse and entire 
at the base. Style-branches of the disk-flowers truncate. Achenes oblong or obovate, slightly 
compressed. Pappus none. [Named for Achilles.] 
About 75 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, mostly of the Old World. Besides the 
following, another, or perhaps 2 others, occur in northwestern North America. Type species: 
Achillea santolina L. 
Involucre broadly campanulate; leaves serrate. 1. A. Ptarmica. 
Involucre ovoid to cylindric; leaves finely dissected. 
Involucral bracts greenish-yellow; rays small. 
Plant loosely woolly or nearly glabrous; inflorescence flat-topped. 
Plant densely woolly; inflorescence convex. 
Involucral bracts black-margined ; rays large. 
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A. Millefolium, 
. A. lanulosa. 
. A. borealis. 
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