. 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 102nd meridian. orne at the endsof the branches; involucre about 3long, its bracts acuminate or apiculate;flowers white or pink; achenes resinous. In swamps and moist soil, Maine to west-ern Ontario, Florida and Texas. WestIndies and South America. July-Sept. 6. COLEOSANTHUS Cass. Diet. 10: 36. 1817.[Brickellia Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 290. 1824.]Herbs or shrubs, with opposite or alternate l
. 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 102nd meridian. orne at the endsof the branches; involucre about 3long, its bracts acuminate or apiculate;flowers white or pink; achenes resinous. In swamps and moist soil, Maine to west-ern Ontario, Florida and Texas. WestIndies and South America. July-Sept. 6. COLEOSANTHUS Cass. Diet. 10: 36. 1817.[Brickellia Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 290. 1824.]Herbs or shrubs, with opposite or alternate leaves, and discoid heads of white yellowishor pink flowers, in panicles or cymes, or rarely solitary. Involucre campanulate or oblong,its bracts striate, imbricated in several series, the exterior ones successively smaller. Recep-tacle flat or convex, naked. Corolla regular. S-lobed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches long, obtuse. Achenes lo-striate or lo-ribbed. Pappus a single row of numerousrough or serrate bristles. [Greek, sheath-flower.] A genus of about 70 species. Besides the following, some 45 others occur in the southern andwestern United States. Type species: Coleosanthus Cavanillcsii I. Coleosanthus grandiflorus (Hook.) Kuntze.
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