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BÉLIilUM crassifoliimi.
Thick-leaved Lesser Daisy.
Linnean Class and Order. S Y N G E N E S I A P O L Y G A M I A S U P E R F L U A .
N a tu ra l Order. C O M P O S I T ^ . A t o . 2 - P - 1 0 3 .
F am . V I I . A S T E R E I Cass. T r ib . B E L L W E M .
B E L L IU M . S u p r à fo l. 1 7 5 .
B . crassifolium, c a u le s c e n s ; fo liis s p a th u l a ti s in te g e r r im i s , f lo s c u lls
ta tis ) s ty l i r am is c o n o p a p illo s o te rm m a tis , p a p p i p a le is t ru n c a ti s e ro s is .
B e l llum c ra s s ifo lium . Moris in litt. Spreng. syst. 4 . p . 3Ü.I.
Plant perennial, caulescent, somewhat suffruticose, sparingly
clothed with adpressed pubescence Stems decumbent
dull purple, cylindrical, about 3 inches long. Leaves
ffdck and^^flerhy’, siiathulate, blunt, on narrow inear com
nressed footstalks, about an inch long. Peduncles erect,
filiform, 5 inches long, dull purple, pubescent.
hemispherical, of 1 6 linear-oblong, obtuse, equal pnbescent
green leaves, gibbous at the base, and membranous at the
fdges. Rachis pyramidal, naked, minutely tuberculate.
Rays about 18, female, oblong somewhat P F ^ ^ f
more rarelv 3-toothed, spreading, milk white above, pupsle
beneath. Florets o f the disk tubular, f toothed and pentan-
drous, minutely papillose, yellow, pale green below. Filaments
slender, glabrous, jointed at the apex. Anthers united
into a tube, blunt and awnless at the base, terminated by a
lanceolate, acute appendage Style, the
rays linear, blunt, compressed, glabrous ; of the disk thicker,
and terminated by aconical, compressed, papillose appendage
McÄema cuneate, compressed, pubescent,
of 6 or 8 broad, scariose, truncate paleae, torn at the apex,
alternating with an equal number of long scabrous bristles.
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