94 Helianthm angustifolius. 



long below, and shorter above, varying from seven inches to ten in 

 length, and about a quarter of an inch to three-eighths wide, without 

 nerves, the costa only being conspicuous on the under disk. They are 

 smooth and even glabrous underneath, acute, closely sessile. Top of 

 the stem usually divided into one or more forks, supporting at a con- 

 siderable distance from a leaf or two, occasionally found on the bifur- 

 cating branches, each a single, terminal, pale, straw-yellow flower, 

 consisting for the most part of eight linear, acute, rarely ovate petals. 

 Calix leaves very numerous. Disk deep brown purple, rays yellow. 



Grows in dry woods from Maryland southward, flowering in Sep- 

 tember. 



The table represents Fig. l, the upper portion of the plan the size 

 of nature — Fig. 2, a leaf from the lower part of the stem. 



