The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
69. Chrysanthemum. Receptacle flattish. Rays many, pistillate. Pappus
none.
[+][+] Heads mostly small, discoid, corymbed or paniculate.
70. Tanacetum. Heads corymbed. Achene with broad summit; pappus a short
crown.
71. Artemisia. Heads in panicled spikes or racemes. Achenes with narrow
summit; pappus none.
Tribe VIII. SENECIONIDEÆ. Heads radiate or discoid, the involucre little
or not at all imbricated, not scarious. Receptacle naked. Anthers
tailless. Pappus capillary.
[*] Heads monœcious or subdiœcious, the perfect flowers mostly sterile,
and the small (ligulate or tubular) ray-flowers in more than one row (at
least in the fertile heads). Style-branches obtuse, not appendaged nor
hispid. Leaves all radical.
72. Tussilago. Head solitary, yellow-flowered, monœcious.
73. Petasites. Heads corymbed, subdiœcious. Flowers white or purplish.
[*][*] Flowers all fertile. Style-branches truncate or capitellate,
often appendaged. Involucral scales connivent-erect.
[+] Leaves opposite.
74. Arnica. Heads showy. Pappus rather rigid, scabrous.
[+][+] Leaves alternate. Pappus soft-capillary, copious.
75. Senecio. Heads usually radiate. Corollas yellow, 5-toothed.
76. Cacalia. Heads discoid. Corollas white or cream-colored, 5-cleft.
77. Erechtites. Heads discoid. Flowers whitish, the outer pistillate
with filiform corollas.
Tribe IX. CYNAROIDEÆ. Flowers all tubular and perfect (the outer
ray-like and neutral in n. 82). Involucre much imbricated. Anthers
caudate, long-appendaged at tip. Style-branches short or united, obtuse,
unappendaged, smooth, with often a pubescent ring below. Pappus mostly
bristly.--Leaves alternate.
[*] Achenes attached by the base. Flowers all alike.
[+] Leaves not prickly. Style-branches partly distinct. Filaments
glabrous.
78. Arctium. Involucral scales hooked at the tip. Pappus of short rough
bristles.
[+][+] Leaves prickly. Style-branches coherent, usually a pubescent ring
below.
79. Cnicus. Pappus bristles plumose. Receptacle densely bristly.
80. Carduus. Pappus-bristles not plumose. Receptacle densely bristly.
81. Onopordon. Pappus-bristles not plumose. Receptacle deeply
honeycombed.
[*][*] Achenes attached obliquely. Marginal flowers often enlarged and
ray-like.
82. Centaurea. Involucral scales appendaged. Pappus double and bristly,
or very short or none.
SERIES II. LIGULIFLORÆ. Tribe X. CICHORIACEÆ.
Corolla ligulate in all the flowers of the head, and all the flowers
perfect.--Herbs, with milky juice. Leaves alternate.
[*] Pappus none.
83. Lampsana. Involucre cylindrical, of 8 scales in a single row,
8--12-flowered.
[*][*] Pappus chaffy, or of both chaff and bristles.
84. Krigia. Involucre simple, not calyculate. Pappus of both chaff and
bristles.
85. Cichorium. Involucre double. Pappus a small crown of many
bristle-form scales.
[*][*][*] Pappus plumose.
86. Tragopogon. Involucre simple, not calyculate. Achenes long-beaked.
Stems leafy.
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