. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. COMPOSITAE. Vol. III. 5. Vernonia altissima Nutt. Tall Iron-weed. Fig. 4144. Vernonia altissima Nutt. Gen. 2: 134. 1818. Vernonia maxima Small, Bull. Torr. Club 27: 280. 1900. Glabrous or nearly so, S°-io0 high. Leaves thin, lanceolate, sometimes broadly so, usu- ally long-acuminate, finely serrate, 4'-l2' long, i'-li' wide, glabrous on both surfaces, or puberu
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. COMPOSITAE. Vol. III. 5. Vernonia altissima Nutt. Tall Iron-weed. Fig. 4144. Vernonia altissima Nutt. Gen. 2: 134. 1818. Vernonia maxima Small, Bull. Torr. Club 27: 280. 1900. Glabrous or nearly so, S°-io0 high. Leaves thin, lanceolate, sometimes broadly so, usu- ally long-acuminate, finely serrate, 4'-l2' long, i'-li' wide, glabrous on both surfaces, or puberulent beneath; inflorescence at length loosely branched and open; heads short-peduncled or some of them sessile 5 involucre campanulate or turbinate, 2"-$" broad, 15-30-flowered; bracts obtuse or mucronate, more or less ciliate, appressed; achenes slightly hispidulous; pappus pur- plish. In moist soil, New York to Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky and Louisiana. July-Sept. Included in our first edition in V. gigantea (Walt.) Britton, of the Southern States. 4. Vernonia marginata (Torr.) Raf. James' Iron-weed. Fig. 4143- Vernonia altissima var. marginata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 210. 1827. Vernonia marginata Raf. Atl. Journ. i: 146. 1832. Vernonia Jamesii T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 58. 1841. Cacalia marginata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 968. 1891. Glabrous or very nearly so, i°-3° high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceoiate, minutely denticulate, i-nerved, firm, punctate,'2'-$' long, li"-3" wide, acuminate; inflorescence rather loose; heads slender-peduncled; involucre campanulate or turbinate, 15-30-flowered, 4"- 6" broad; bracts ovate or oval, acute, mucro- nate or obtusish, purplish, somewhat pubes- cent, appressed; achenes nearly glabrous, or somewhat pubescent; pappus brownish. Prairies, Nebraska and Kansas to Texas and New Mexico. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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