. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Maine to New York, New Jer-sey, Manitoba, British Columbia, Arkansas and NewMexico. Jvme-Sept. False sunflower. 58. VERBESlNA L. Sp. PI. 901. 1753. Erect or diffuse branching pubescent or hirsute herbs, with opposite leaves, and smallpeduncled terminal and axillary heads of tubular and radiate whitish flowers. Involucrehemispheric or broadly campanulate, its bracts imbricated
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Maine to New York, New Jer-sey, Manitoba, British Columbia, Arkansas and NewMexico. Jvme-Sept. False sunflower. 58. VERBESlNA L. Sp. PI. 901. 1753. Erect or diffuse branching pubescent or hirsute herbs, with opposite leaves, and smallpeduncled terminal and axillary heads of tubular and radiate whitish flowers. Involucrehemispheric or broadly campanulate, its bracts imbricated in about 2 series, nearly equal. 01*the outer longer. Receptacle flat or convex, chaffy, the chaff awn-like, subtending the pistillate, fertile. Disk-flowers perfect, mostly fertile, their corollas tubular,4-toothed or rarely 5-toothed. Anthers entire or minutely 2-toothed at the base. Style-branches of the disk-flowers with obtuse or triangular tips. Achenes thick, those of the rays3-sided or 4-sided, those of the disk compressed. Pappus none, or of a few short teeth.[Name changed from Verbena.] About 4 species, mostly of tropical distribution, the following typical. 468 COMPOSITAE. Vol. I. Verbesina alba L. Yerbadetajo. Fig. 4439. Verbesina alba L. Sp. PI. 902. 1753. Eclipta erecta L. Mant. 2 : 286. 1771. Eclipta procumbens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 129. 1803. £c/;7;a o/fca Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 528. 1848. Annual, rough with appressed pubescence, erect ordiffuse, 6-3° high. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceo-late or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, denticulateor entire, narrowed to a sessile base, or the lower peti-oled, I-5 long, 2-io wide; heads commonly numer-ous, 3-6 broad, nearly sessile, or slender-peduncled;rays short, nearly white; anthers brown; achenes4-toothed, or at length truncate. Along streams, and in waste places, Massachusetts to Illi-nois, Nebraska, Florida, Texas and Mexico. Naturalizedfrom the south in its northeastern range a
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