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
4. S. tomentòsus, Michx. (WOOLLY RAGWORT.) _Clothed with scarcely
deciduous hoary wool_ (1--2° high); _root-leaves oblong_, obtuse,
crenate or entire, often large, on elongated stout petioles; the upper
sessile, similar or lyrate-pinnatifid; corymb flat-topped; rays
12--15.--Del. and mountains of Penn. (_Pursh._), to Fla. and Ark. May.
5. S. cànus, Hook. Usually low, persistently tomentose, rarely at all
glabrate; leaves much smaller, spatulate to oblong, all entire or some
cut-toothed or pinnatifid; achenes glabrous.--N. Minn., Dak., and
westward.
6. S. integérrimus, Nutt. Woolly pubescent when young, soon glabrate and
green; leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, entire or denticulate, the
upper bract-like, attenuate from a broad base; heads rather large (6´´
high), with green-tipped scales.--Sask. to Minn., and westward.
7. S. lùgens, Richards. Like the last; leaves usually repand- or
callous-denticulate; heads usually smaller, with mostly black-tipped
scales.--Subarc. Amer. to New Mex., in the mountains; reported from
Minn. and N. Iowa.
[*][*][*] _Root perennial; heads large and often solitary._
8. S. Pseùdo-Árnica, Less. Loosely white-woolly, sometimes becoming
glabrous; stem stout, 6--12´ high, leafy to the top; leaves oblong,
repand, tapering into a narrow petiole-like base; heads 1--4, over an
inch in diameter; rays 20 or more, large.--Grand Manan Island, off Maine
(_Prof. Verrill_), to Lab., and northward.
76. CACÀLIA, L. INDIAN PLANTAIN.
Heads 5--many-flowered; the flowers all tubular and perfect. Involucral
scales in a single row, erect-connivent, with a few bractlets at the
base. Receptacle naked. Corolla deeply 5-cleft. Achenes oblong, smooth;
pappus of numerous soft capillary bristles.--Smooth and tall perennial
herbs, with alternate often petioled leaves, and rather large heads, in
flat corymbs. Flowers white or whitish. (An ancient name, of uncertain
meaning.)
[*] _Involucre 25--30-flowered, with several bracts at its base;
receptacle flat._
1. C. suavèolens, L. Stem grooved (3--5° high); _leaves
triangular-lanceolate, halberd-shaped_, pointed, serrate, those of the
stem on winged petioles.--Rich woods, Conn. to Mich., Iowa, and
southward; rare. Sept.
[*][*] _Involucre 5-leaved and 5-flowered, its bracts minute or none;
receptacle bearing a more or less evident scale-like pointed appendage
in the centre._
2. C. renifórmis, Muhl. (GREAT INDIAN PLANTAIN.) Not glaucous; stem
(4--9° high) grooved and angled; _leaves green both sides, dilated
fan-shaped, or the lowest kidney-form_ (1--2° broad), _repand-toothed_
and angled, palmately veined, petioled; the teeth pointed; corymbs
large.--Rich damp woods, N. J. to Ill., Minn., and southward along the
mountains. Aug.
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