VASXbla 



RUDBECKIA TRILOBA. 



THREE-LOBE-LEAVED RUDBECKIA. 



(Generic Character, $*c. fyc. seepage 17 of this ivork.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hispidly-hairy ; stem paniculated, branches divaricate, many-flowered, leafy ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, serrate, the lower ones three-lobed ; calicine leaf- 

 lets linear, deflexed, as long as the rays. Willd. and Pursh. 



Plant from three to five feet high. Root perennial or biennial ? 

 Stem cylindrical, furrowed, reddish, closely beset with white hairs. 

 Branches dull-lake-red, hairy. Lower leaves three-lobed, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, obscurely three-nerved, hairy, cili- 

 ated, particularly towards the base ; hairs and cilia? white. Upper 

 leaves simple, lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly serrate, indistinct- 

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