§ 2. EUTHÀMIA. _Corymbosely much branched; heads small, sessile, in little clusters crowded in flat-topped corymbs; the closely appressed involucral scales somewhat glutinous; receptacle fimbrillate; rays 6--20, short, more numerous than the disk-flowers; leaves narrow, entire, sessile._ 41. S. lanceolàta, L. _Leaves lanceolate-linear, 3--5-nerved_; the nerves, margins, and angles of the branches minutely rough-pubescent; heads obovoid-cylindrical, in dense corymbed clusters; _rays 15--20_.--River-banks, etc., in moist soil; common.--Stem 2--3° high; leaves 3--5´ long. 42. S. tenuifòlia, Pursh. Smooth, slender; _leaves very narrowly linear, mostly 1-nerved, dotted_; heads obovoid-club-shaped, in numerous clusters of 2 or 3, disposed in a loose corymb; _rays 6--12_.--Sandy fields, Mass. to Ill., and southward; common near the coast. 18. BRACHYCHÆ̀TA, Torr. & Gray. FALSE GOLDEN-ROD. Heads and flowers nearly as in Solidago, except the pappus, which is a row of minute rather scale-like bristles, shorter than the achene.--A perennial herb, with rounded or ovate serrate leaves, all the _lower ones heart-shaped_; the small yellow heads in sessile clusters racemed or spiked on the branches. (Name composed of βραχύς, _short_, and χίτη, _bristle_, from the pappus.) 1. B. cordàta, Torr. & Gray. Wooded hills, S. Ind. and E. Ky. to N. Ga. Oct.--Plant 2--4° high, slender, more or less pubescent. 19. BÉLLIS, Tourn. DAISY. Heads many-flowered, radiate; the rays numerous, pistillate. Scales of the involucre herbaceous, equal, in about 2 rows. Receptacle conical, naked. Achenes obovate, flattened, wingless, and without any pappus.--Low herbs (all but our single species natives of the Old World), either stemless, like the true _Daisy_, B. PERENNIS (which is found as an occasional escape from cultivation), or leafy-stemmed, as is the following. (The Latin name, from _bellus_, pretty.) 1. B. integrifòlia, Michx. (WESTERN DAISY.) Annual or biennial, diffusely branched (4´--1° high), smoothish; leaves lanceolate or oblong, the lower spatulate-obovate; heads on slender peduncles; rays pale violet-purple.--Prairies and banks, Ky. and southwestward. March--June. 20. APHANÓSTEPHUS, DC. Involucral scales in few series, broadly lanceolate, the outer shorter. Achenes prismatic, the broad truncate apex bearing a short coroniform pappus. Otherwise as Bellis.--Southwestern leafy-stemmed and branching pubescent herbs, with solitary terminal daisy-like heads. (Ἀφανής, _inconspicuous_, and στέφος, _crown_; in allusion to the pappus.) 1. A. Arkansànus, Gray. Diffuse, 1° high; leaves oblong-spatulate to broadly lanceolate, the lower often toothed or lobed; rays white to purple, ½´ long; pappus mostly 4--5-lobed.--Plains of Kan. and southward. 21. CHÆTOPÁPPA, DC.