An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . er 3 or 4 innumber. Fruit 4-angled, with 3 or 4 awl-like barbed awns. Damp soil,Rhode Island and southward. July-Oct, .j. B. connata, Muhl. (Fig. 5, pi. 191.) Purple-stemmed SwampIKfJCAR-TicKS. Smooth, erect, branched, A to 8 ft, high. Leaves lance-sha])ed deeply notched, on long leaf-stalks, 2 to 5 in. long; the lower some-times 3 cleft. Heads numerous; rays 1 to 5, inconspicuous or bracts of the involuc
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . er 3 or 4 innumber. Fruit 4-angled, with 3 or 4 awl-like barbed awns. Damp soil,Rhode Island and southward. July-Oct, .j. B. connata, Muhl. (Fig. 5, pi. 191.) Purple-stemmed SwampIKfJCAR-TicKS. Smooth, erect, branched, A to 8 ft, high. Leaves lance-sha])ed deeply notched, on long leaf-stalks, 2 to 5 in. long; the lower some-times 3 cleft. Heads numerous; rays 1 to 5, inconspicuous or bracts of the involucre extending somewhat above the head, few,obtuse. Fruit wedge-shaped with 2 barbed awns. Swamps, wet places,common. 0. B. comosa, Wiegand. (Fig. 0, pi. 191.) Leafy-bracted Tick-Ki:i;d. Leaves hnue-shaped, toothed, tapering at each end. Outer bractsof involucre leaf like, extending very much above the disk, conspicuouslytoothed. Fruit with 3 barbed awns. Wet places, Mas9., southern NewYork and southward. 7. B. discoidea, (T. and G.) Britton, (Fig, 2, pi. 192.) SmallBeggar-ticks. Lower leaves divided into 3 lance-shaped segments, 1 to THISTLE FAMILY 687. Plate 193 1. Helenium auturnnale. 2. Anthomis Cntula. 3. Achillea millefolium. parvillora. 5. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. 688 COMPOSITAE 3 in. long. Upper leaves lance-shaped, toothed. Heads small, rays none,bracts 3 or 4 times as high as tiie head, linear, scarcely toothed Fruit 2 awned. Swamps, Connecticut and southward. July-Sept. 8. B. frondosa, L- (Fig. 1, pi. 192.) Beggar-ticks. Smooth,branched, 2 to (5 ft. high. Leaves on slender leaf-stalks, 3- to 7-divided,the segments lance-shaped or often sub-divided. Rays none; bracts 2 or 3 times as high as the head, linear, scarcely toothed. Fruit ovate with 2awns. Moist soil, throughout our range. July-Oct. 35. GALINSOGA, R. & P. Herbs with opposite 3-ncrved leaves and small heads with whitish raysand yellow disk. Heads with several tubiHar and radia
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