COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composites. 



Dull cream quite prominent and cream-colored. The 

 smooth, deep green leaves are varied in 



form, the lower ones broad, three-sided, 

 September 



and remotely toothed, the upper ones 

 deeply cut, and the uppermost lance-shaped with two 

 small lateral lobes or none at all. The smooth stem is 

 stiff, round, and generally dull, deep magenta-tinted, 

 with a bloom. 2-4 feet high. Common in thin woods 

 northward, and south to Ga. and Ky. 



A similar smooth species, the stem of 

 Lion's-foot or wn i c h is green and without a bloom. The 

 leaves also very variable, a trifle roughish, 

 Prenanthes an( ^ shaped (but more angularly) like those 

 serpentaria of P. alba. The flower-cluster is inclined 

 Dull cream t o be somewhat flat-topped, and the pen- 

 dulous, bell-shaped, dull cream-colored 

 September flowers are enclosed in a somewhat bristly, 

 hairy, green envelop, which is sometimes 

 a trifle magenta-tinted. The curled branches of the 

 style are slender and prominent, as in all the Prenanthes. 

 1-3 feet high, usually 2 feet. In thickets, or dry sandy 

 ground, Mass, (rare) and N. Y., south to Ala. and Fla. 

 P. trifoliolata, var. nana (Fernald), confined to alpine 

 summits of N. Eng. (Mt. Katahdin) and N. Y., has deep 

 madder brown flowers and variously shaped leaves. 

 4-12 inches high. 



A tall, generally smooth species, with a 



Tall White green or magenta-tinged stem. The leaves 



^nanthes (except the uppermost) variously shaped 



altissima but long-stalked. The numerous narrow, 



Dull cream pendulous, dull cream-colored flowers with 



color a smooth green envelop, are borne in a 



u y ~ . narrow terminal spike, or in small clusters 



at the leaf -angles. 3-7 feet high. In 



woodlands and thickets, northward, and south to Ga. 



A dwarf species with stout, ruddy stem, 

 large flower-heads, and thick, narrow, 

 variously shaped leaves. Flowers whitish 

 and fragrant, enclosed within a dull magenta-tinged en- 

 velop. 4-12 inches high. Alpine summits of N. Y. and 

 N. Eng. Found on Mt. Washington, Oakes's Gulf. 



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Prenanthes 

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