. 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. COMPOSITAE (composite FAMILY) 805 beneath, all but the lowest truncate or tapering at base: â Throughout the range, tlie commonest form northw. Var. sejunctus Burgess. Similar to the pre- ceding variety, but most of the stem-leaves long-petioled, broad and cordate. â Me. to Pa. and Wise. Var. apricensis Burgess. Freely branching from near the base, bearing innumerable heads. â Me. to Pa. Var. iAnthinds (Burgess) Pernald. Glands minute, rarely sl
. 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. COMPOSITAE (composite FAMILY) 805 beneath, all but the lowest truncate or tapering at base: â Throughout the range, tlie commonest form northw. Var. sejunctus Burgess. Similar to the pre- ceding variety, but most of the stem-leaves long-petioled, broad and cordate. â Me. to Pa. and Wise. Var. apricensis Burgess. Freely branching from near the base, bearing innumerable heads. â Me. to Pa. Var. iAnthinds (Burgess) Pernald. Glands minute, rarely slipilate ; leaves thin. (Including A. ianthinus, violaris, multiformis, and nobilis Burgess.) â Me. to Ont. and W. Va. §3. EUASTER Gray. Bracts imbricated in various degrees, with herbaceous or leaf-like summits, or the outer entirely foliaceous ; rays numerous; pap- pus simple, soft and nearly uniform (coarser and more rigid in the first group); achenes flattened. * Bracts well imbricated, coriaceous, with short herbaceous mostly obtuse spread- ing tips; pappus of rigid bristles; stem-leaves all sessile, none heart-shaped or clasping ; heads few or when several corymbose, large and showy. t- Lowest leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, on nearly naked petioles, some rounded or subcordate at base. 7. A. Herveyi Gray. Slightly scabrous, 3-9 dm. high, the summit and peduncles glandular-puberulent; leaves roughish, obscurely serrate, the upper lanceolate ; heads loosely corym- bose, 1 cm. or so high ; involucre nearly hemispherical; bracts obscurely glandular, all erect, with very short or indistinct green tips; rays violet, cm., long. â Borders of oak woods, in rather moist soil, e. Mass. to Ct. and 1j. I. Fig. 924. â An ambigu- ous species, approaching the preceding and the next. â 1- H- Radical leaves {usually absent in no. 11) all tapering into margined petioles; involucres squarrose {hardly so in no. 11) ; rootstocks slender. 8. A. spectibilis Ait. Stems 3-6 dm. high,
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