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the middle: heads solitary or in 2’s or 3’s, sessile or subsessile in the 
axils of the leaves or on short leafy branches: involucre 5 to 6 mm. high, 
10-15-flowered ; the 5 linear-oblong bracts acutish, strongly conduplicate, 
keeled toward the bases, ciliate, bearing a few large glands especially 
toward the tips: rays narrow, 2 or 3 mm. long: pales subequal, the 
longest 14 or 2 mm. long, lance-attenuate with a serrulate tip or with a 
lanceolate or lance-ovate fimbriate base tapering: gradually to a serrulate 
awn; in the disk-pappus 1 or 2 shorter intermediate pales often present: 
akenes sparingly appressed-pubescent, 3 mm. long. — Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 
1221, Ameen. Acad. v. 407, & Spec. ed. 2, 1250. P. anceps, Less. 
Linnea, vi. 715, and P. costata, Ser. & Merc. in DC. Prodr. v. 100 fide 
Grisebach. P. ciliata, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 360, in syn. fide Hook. f. 
& Jack. Ind. Kew. ii. 443. Ohthonia glaucescens, Cass. in Dict. Sci. Nat. 
1x. 178, and ©. ciliaris, Cass. 1. ¢. xxvii. 206 fide Steud. 1. c. (reduced 
to Pectis ciliata, doubtless a misprint for P. ciliaris) and fide Hook. f. & 
Jack. 1. ©. i, 582. — Frorrpa, Charlotte Harbor (Blodgett), Miami (Gar- 
__ ber), Lastero Bay (Garber, no. 14), Tampa (Nash. no. 2479), Keys of 
Caximbas fide Chapman. Also in the West Indies. 
/ P. Lessingii. More diffusely branched and more leafy than the 
| last: leaves similar, but narrower, mucronulate, with 2 distinct rows of 
‘Marginal glands: heads solitary on sparingly bracteate filiform peduncles 
_ *0r3 em. long: bracts of involucre less conduplicate than in the last, the 
glands fewer or wanting: pappus more abruptly awned, or sometimes 
awnless : akenes spreading-pubescent or glabrate. — P. linifolia, Less. 
- Linnea, vi. 709 (excl. syn.), not L.; DC. 1. ¢. 99 (excl. syn.) ; Griseb. 
Pl. Brit. W. 1. 378; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2, 360.— Froripa, Key 
West (Blodgett, Chapman), Palm Cape (Chapman), Miami (Garber), 
Cape Sable (Garber, no. 22, Simpson, no. 170), between Everglades 
nd Biscayne Bay (Curtis, no. 1162). Also in the West Indies. A 
_ Single anomalous specimen from Key West (Blodgett) has some of the 
_ “faves mucronulate and the solitary head subsessile, thus suggesting the 
Preceding species. : 
| ** ++ Depressed annuals: heads sessile or subsessile, with inconspicuous rays: 
pales subequal, lance- or linear-attenuate, sometimes awn-tipped. 
= Pappus simply of attenuate pales, in the disk 5 or 6, in the ray 2 or 3. 
/ a & Prostrata, Cav. Stems prostrate, forming mats sometimes 4 dm. 
; con, Craely simple and ascending), smooth or puberulent in lines : 
 , Yes oblanceolate or spatulate-linear, blunt or mucronate, 34 cm. or less 
ay length, 2 to 5 mm. broad, with many fine punctate dots on the pale 
