. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. 112 2. Golden-rod. Heads fow-n»any-flowered, radiate; the rays 1-16, pistillate, fecalea of the oblong involucre appressed, destitute of herba- ceous tips (except n. 1). Receptacle small, not chaffy. Achenes many-ribbed, nearly terete; pappus simple, of equal capillary herbs, with mostly wand-like steins and nearly aessile stem-leaves, never heart-shaped. Heads small, racemed or clustered ; flowers both of the disk and ray (except in n. 3) yellow. (Name from solidics and mjo, to join, or make whole
. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. 112 2. Golden-rod. Heads fow-n»any-flowered, radiate; the rays 1-16, pistillate, fecalea of the oblong involucre appressed, destitute of herba- ceous tips (except n. 1). Receptacle small, not chaffy. Achenes many-ribbed, nearly terete; pappus simple, of equal capillary herbs, with mostly wand-like steins and nearly aessile stem-leaves, never heart-shaped. Heads small, racemed or clustered ; flowers both of the disk and ray (except in n. 3) yellow. (Name from solidics and mjo, to join, or make whole, in allusion to reputed vulnery qualities.) Flowering in autumn. Conspectus of Groups. Heads all more or less pedicelled. Involucral scales rigid, with spreadinj,'herbaceous tips j Involucral scales without green tips. Heads small, mostly clustfered in the axils of feather-veined leaves .. 2 8 Heads ;inflorescencepaniculate(sometim'esthy«oidaJ) Leaves S-nbbed; heads in l-sided spreading panicled racemes. Pubescent or scabrous 12 Leaves not 3-ribbed, or only obscurely triple-nerved. Heads large; leaves thickish, very smooth, entire. Seashore .. ,. g § 1. VIRGAUREA. Bays mostly fewer than the disk-flowers; heads all more or less pedicelled. * Scales of the much imbricated and ri(,id involucre vnth abruptly spreading herbaceous tips; heads in dusters or glomerate raceme, disposed in a dense somewhat leafy and interrupted wand-likl compound spike. 1. S. squarrosa, Muhl. Stem stout (3-5° high), hairy above • . leaves large, oblong, or the lower spatnlate-oval and tapering into a margined petiole, serrate, veiny; heads numerous; scales obtuse or acute; disk-flowers lG-24, the rays and wooded hills, to Out. **Involucral scales without green tips and wholly appressed. f Heads small (3" long), clustered along the stem in the amis of the feather-veimd leaves, or the upper forming a ihgrse. X-Achenes Please note that these
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