. 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. 985. A. patens. — Mass. to 0. and Tenn. Var. gracilis Hook. Stem-leaves very short (1-2 cm. long), thickened and harsh, those of the flowering branches mostly minute.—Ky. to Kan., and south westw. ***** Lower leaves heart-shaped and petioled; no glandular or viscid pubes- cence; heads with short and appressed green-tipped bracts (except in nos. 19 and 26), mostly small and numerous, racemose or panicled. H- Heads middle-sized, with many rays, an
. 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. 985. A. patens. — Mass. to 0. and Tenn. Var. gracilis Hook. Stem-leaves very short (1-2 cm. long), thickened and harsh, those of the flowering branches mostly minute.—Ky. to Kan., and south westw. ***** Lower leaves heart-shaped and petioled; no glandular or viscid pubes- cence; heads with short and appressed green-tipped bracts (except in nos. 19 and 26), mostly small and numerous, racemose or panicled. H- Heads middle-sized, with many rays, and squarrose foliaceous involucre. 19. A. an6malus Engelm. Somewhat pubescent and scabrous; stems slender, 1 m. high, simple or racemose- branched above; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, entire ; the upper small, almost sessile ; bracts of the hemi- spherical involucre imbricated in several rows, appressed, with linear spreading leafy tips; achenes smooth. — Lime- stone cliffs and rocky woods, 111., Mo., and Ark. Sept., Oct. — Bays violet-purple. Fig. 936. ^- -1- Bays 10-20 ; involucral bracts appressed or erect. ++ Leaves entire or slightly serrate; heads middle-sized; rays bright blue. 20. A. azureus Lindl. Stem rather rough, erect, racemose- compound at the summit, the branches slender and rigid; 936. A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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