SUNFLOWER FAMILY 381 
rays. Involucre (in ours) about 2-seriate, subequal, of narrow subherbaceous phyllaries 
Pecertoete: flat, naked. Pistillate flowers numerous, several-seriate, their corollas tubu lar- 
flowers. ew, their pre ta (in n ours) with a slender tube and slen eae na en 
a e, ce penda 
Style-branches hispidulous above with short, ovate, hispidulous appe dages. Achenes 
small, oblong, compressed, the pappus (in ours) o rather ee and fragile, unequal, capil- 
lary bris - aero Greek, applied to some kind of fleaban 
Ag of about 50 species, most of which are natives of tropical or kote regions in both hemispheres. 
Type aclad, Soman chilenas Spreng. 
All leaves cuneate-obovate, sharply and —— toothed. 1 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, entire or the lower sometimes lacin 
Involucres densely <2 ae 5-8 mm. "high Pistillate flowers without igules. 
. C. coulteri. 
2. C. bonariensis. 
. C. canadensis. 
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5654. Lessingia EEE 
