. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 868 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY]) 1024. L. villosa. § 3. MULGfeDIUM (Cass.) Gray. Achenes thickish, oblong, contracted into a short thick beak or neck; annual or biennial; flowers chiefly blue. * Pappus white. 12. L. villbsa Jacq. Tall biennial, 1-2 m. high, with many small heads in a loose panicle, on diverging peduncles; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, pointed, sharply and sometimes doubly serrate, or runcinate, sometimes hairy on the midr
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 868 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY]) 1024. L. villosa. § 3. MULGfeDIUM (Cass.) Gray. Achenes thickish, oblong, contracted into a short thick beak or neck; annual or biennial; flowers chiefly blue. * Pappus white. 12. L. villbsa Jacq. Tall biennial, 1-2 m. high, with many small heads in a loose panicle, on diverging peduncles; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, pointed, sharply and sometimes doubly serrate, or runcinate, sometimes hairy on the midrib beneath, contracted into a winged petiole, the lowest occasionally sinuate or cleft at base, and the cauline sagittate or hastate ; achenes beakless. (L. acuminata Gray.) — Borders of woods, N. Y. to Neb., and southw. Fig. 1024. 13. L. floridana (L.) Gaertn. Leaves all ly rate or runcinate, or rarely entire, the upper often with a heart-shaped clasping base; panicle larger; achenes distinctly beaked; otherwise as no. 12. — Rich soil, N. Y. and Pa. to Neb., and southw. Fig. 1025. * * Pappus tawny. 14. L. spic&ta (Lam.) Hitchc. Nearly smooth biennial, tall ( m. high), very leafy ; leaves irregularly pinnatifid, some- times runcinate, coarsely toothed, the upper cauline sessile and auriculate, sometimes clasping ; heads in a large and dense com- pound panicle; flowers bluish to cream-color; achene short- beaked, (i. leucophoea Gray.) —Low grounds, rather common. Fig. 1026. Var. integrif6lia (Gray) Britton. Leaves un- divided, or the lower sinuate-pinnatifld. — Me. to lU, and N. C. 1025. L. floridana. 1026. L. spicata. 101. LYGODtSMIA D. Don. Heads and flowers (6-10) nearly as in Prendnthes, the cylindrical involucre more elongated, and the achenes long and slender, tapering at the summit; pappus whitish. — Smooth, often glaucous, with terminal or scattered heads of rose-purple flowers on the leafless or rush- like stems or branches. (Name composed of Xiiyos,
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