380 ORDER LXVIII. COMPOSITE. 



sessile. Flowers on long peduncles, in pairs; involucre with ovate, acu- 

 minate leaves. — White. 0. June — 'July. Gravelly soils. 



2. E. peocum'bens. Stem procumbent, assurgent, terete, with numer- 

 ous opposite branches, with oppressed hairs. Leaves sessile, opposite, 

 lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 3-nerved ; involucre with acute lance- 

 olate leaves. Flowers on peduncles, generally in pairs; involucre with 

 8 — 10 leaves, lanceolate, ciliate, unequal; ray florets numerous, 2- 

 toothed — White. 0. June — Oct. Damp soils. Common. 12 — 18 

 inches. 



3. E. brachypo'da. Stem prostrate, divaricately branched. Leaves 

 lanceolate, slightly serrulate. Flowers on short peduncles, solitary or 

 in pairs ; involucre with oval lanceolate leaves; florets 4 — 5-cleft. — 

 White. ©. July — Sept. Sandy soils. 



Tribe IV.-SENECIOI'DE^E. 



Style cylindrical at the apex ; in perfect flowers bifid, branch- 

 es elongated, linear, pencillate, or truncate at the apex ; pro- 

 duced beyond the pencil into a short cone, or an elongated ap- 

 pendix, narrow and hispid. Corolla of the disk regular, pellucid. 



Genus XXXIII.— POLYM'NIA. L. . 

 (Named from one of the Muses.) 



Involucre double, the exterior usually 5-leaved, the interior 

 10-leaved. Ray florets pistillate, those of the disk staminate. 

 Receptacle chaffy. Pappus none. 



1. P. Canadensis, (L.) Stem erect, viscid, villous, somewhat scabrous. 

 Lower leaves deeply lobed, or pinnatifid, the upper ones entire or 3- 

 lobed, all finely serrate, somewhat ovate, slightly scabrous. Flowers 

 in terminal panicles ; involucre viscid and villous; ray florets 10, small. 

 — Yellow. U- July — Sept. Mountains. 2 — 4 feet. 



2. P. Uveda'lia, (L). Stem erect, villous, terete, scabrous. Leaves 

 opposite, 3 — 5-lobed or ternate ; leaflets or lobes tomentose, ovate, sca- 

 brous, petiole winged. Flowers in a terminal panicle, with opposite or 

 ternate branches ; involucre with the exterior scales largest, ciliate, 

 ovate; the interior lanceolate, villous; ray florets 10, 3 toothed at the 

 summit. Seeds globose, somewhat compressed, glabrous. — Yellow. 11. 

 June — 'Aug. Common. 3 — 5 feet. 



Genus XXXIV.— CHRYSOG'OXUM. L. 



(From chrusoa, golden, and gone, joint, the flowers being at the joint.) 



Involucre 5-leaved, oblong, villous. Ray florets pistillate, 

 those of the disk staminate. Receptacle chaffy. Seed enfolded 

 in a 4-leaved calyx. Pappus 1 -leaved, pubescent at the summit. 



1. C. Viri;im.\'.ntm. (L.) Stem decumbent, villous. Leaves opposite, 

 oblong, lanceolate-oval, crenately dentate, attenuate at the base into a 

 long petiole, villous. Flowers solitary; involucre villous; ray florets 

 5, broad. Seeds compres.-ed. Bomewhat pubescent. — Yellow. 11 . April 

 — June. Common. 4 — 12 inches. 



