. 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. Prodr. 5: 310. 1836 with alternate leaves, and rather large 1. Brachychaeta sphacelata (Raf.) Brit- ton. False Golden-rod. Fig. 4268. Solidago sphacelata Raf. Ann. Nat. 14. 1820. 6". cordata Short, Trans. Journ. Med. 7: 599. 1834. Brachychaeta cordata T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 194. 1841. B. Britton; Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 484- 1893. Stem e
. 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. Prodr. 5: 310. 1836 with alternate leaves, and rather large 1. Brachychaeta sphacelata (Raf.) Brit- ton. False Golden-rod. Fig. 4268. Solidago sphacelata Raf. Ann. Nat. 14. 1820. 6". cordata Short, Trans. Journ. Med. 7: 599. 1834. Brachychaeta cordata T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 194. 1841. B. Britton; Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 484- 1893. Stem erect, pubescent, simple or branched above, 2°-4° high. Basal and lower leaves broadly ovate, cordate or truncate at the base, acute at the apex, pinnately veined, sharply serrate, 3'-6' long, the slender petioles 3'-o' long, stem leaves gradually smaller and shorter-petioled, the uppermost very small and sessile; heads about 2I" high, racemose- secund or densely clustered on the short branches of the narrow elongated terminal thyrsus; bracts of the involucre oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or acutish; rays and disk-flowers each about 5. In dry woods, Virginia to Indiana, western Ken- tucky, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Sept. 25. APHANOSTEPHUS DC. Erect or ascending canescent branching herbs, heads of both tubular and radiate flowers, solitary at the ends of the branches. Involucre hemispheric, its bracts lanceolate or linear, scarious-margined, imbricated in a few series, the outer smaller. Receptacle convex or conic, naked. Ray-flowers pistillate, white or purplish. Disk-flowers perfect, yellow, their corollas tubular, the limb expanded above, 5-dentate. Anthers obtuse and entire at the base. Style-branches flattened, their appendages short, obtuse. Achenes many-ribbed. Pappus a short dentate crown. [Greek, faint-crown.] About 5 species, natives of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Type species: Aphanostephus ramosissimus DC. i. Aphanostephus skir
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