brous and somewhat glaucescent paniculately branched herbs, with the habit
of Aster. Leaves mostly vertical, lanceolate, sessile, entire, or the lower
rarely serrate, with scabrous and somewhat cartilaginous margins. Heads
rather small, loosely corymbose or paniculate. Rays white or purplish.
1. B . asteroides (L’Her. 1. c.): achenia broadly oval, glabrous: pappus
of 4 or 5 minute setulose teeth, similar in the disk and ray, deciduous; heads
bosely corymbose; leaves lanceolate, entire, or the lower obscurely serrate.
- A i t . ! Kew.(ed. 1) 3. p. 197 , Michx. ! Jl. 2. p . 132; Nee,, A s t.p . 236 ,-
„ ; v c' -Matricaria asteroides, Linn. mant.Carolinianum, p. 116. Chrysanthemum Walt.! Car. p. 204. 1 ^nrysantnemum
I 81« anla’ -Bar<ra"i- (Linn.) and along the mountains to the Southern
u r v ' i a S I than ln diffusa, but rather smaller than in B. glasmimuPWn
1Ch U C°m.7 rese“ bles, and from which it is distinguished by the
o n H i iP“8' This would appear to be a rare species; as we possess
only a single specimen, collected m Burke County, N. Carolina, by Mr. M.
S ta te s ^ ’ aDd E ll0tt dld not meet with il in the low country of the Southern
s l i v b tw 'h ^ ^ * 3 (L ’^ er- }: c-): achenia obovate, broadly winged, often
disS with a 75 PaPPrS °f soevf a l very short bristles, and (especially in the
2’ °,r somet™es 3-4, more or less elongated slender awns ; heads
S c? r ™?ymbo™:77],eaves lanceolate, the lowest often serrate— Mit. ! 1. c. ;
9 ! to o a/ r # SPec- 3‘ P- 2161 ! bot. mag. t. 2381 ; Ell. sk.
2" / f -?39?9 ’ Nees' ’4 sL P' 235 f H°°P- fl- Bor.-Am. 2. p. 23 ; DC. ! 1. c.
sstteemm-, ttbheeC “bhrronad^ ;d,t eecauVrreeSn te Ip°onrgtiaotnesd ulsaunacleloyl ateter,m riantahteedr tbhyin ,s hdoerct uarnrde nttr ioann gthue
lar divaricate lobes, thus appearing sagittate. * g
and wet P^aces’ Upper Canada, Pennsylvania! and nearly
throughout the j j j f i t h g l and Western States! f). Wet prairies of Illinois^
i ' ** 7 feet high. Leaves 3-5 inches long, tapering to the
base, or oblanceolate. But in var. (3. which is perhaps a distinct spefies, the
seL t h M e r i ' lV T 6 !,read!h throughout in the only specimen we have
Recurrent! ? * b heS closely sessile 5 the cauline (upper) strikingly
3. B. diffusa (Ell.) : achenia obovate, rather narrowly winged ; nannus
° /± Z very f ° r t bristles, and 2 short subulate
fusely paniculate; branches and branchlets very numerous and slender;
cauhne ieaves lmear-lanceolate, entire ; those of the branches small, linear
m a t 1 f ebranf ' et? subylate. Ell. sic. 2. p. 400 ; Hook, compan. to lot.
2554, exPDC. ’ ¥ 7 P’ B‘ asteroides’ Sims, lot. mag. t.
to w f , P SW t thr°UghoT the Southem and Southwestern States from Georgia!
to Western Louisiana ! common. Aug.-Oct.-Stem 2-7 feet high, very
f h f nreeed-raD T ^ th? base’ Heads Mt than half the size of
lung* d 8 ' the achema sma11 ln Proportion ; the stout awns not half their
Subdiv. 2. BELLiDEiE.i?C.—Pappus none, or coroniform and minute.
32. BEL LIS. L in n . ; G c e r tn .fr . t. 168 ; D C . p r o d r . 5 . p . 304.
Heads many-flowered ; the ray-flowers pistillate, in a single series; those
of the disk tubular, perfect. Involucre campanulate; the scalds somewhat in
a double senes, foliaceous, herbaceous, or somewhat membranaceous, equal.
Receptacle conical, slightly alveolate. Branches of the style short and broad.
Achenia obovate, compressed, slightly hairy or hispid. Pappus none.—Low
herbs (natives of Europe, with a single exception), either acaulescent and
perennial, or caulescent and annual. Leaves mostly obovate or spatulate.
Heads solitary, terminating the scape or branches. Rays violet-purple, rose-
color, or white—Daisy.
§ Annual: stems branched.—Kyberia, Neck.
1. B . integrifolia (Michx.): stem diffusely branched ; leaves entire, sparsely
hairy and ciliate; the radical and lowermost spatulate-obovate, scarcely
petioled ; the upper lanceolate or oblong, sessile; peduncles elongated; scales
of the involucre lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, with membranaceous margins;
achenia somewhat scabrous.—Michx. ! Jl. 2. p . 131; Hook.! lot. mag. t.
3455; D C . l l . c . Eclipta integrifolia, Spreng., ex syn. Astranthium inte-
grifolium, Nutt;! in trans. Arner. phil. soc. 1. c.
Along streams and in prairies, Kentucky! Tennessee! Arkansas! and Texas!
March—June.^—Stems 4-12 inches high. Heads about as large as the true Daisy
(B. perennis); the ray pale purple or violet. Scales of theinvolucre clothed
with scattered hairs, acuminate into a bristly point. Appendages of the style a
little longer than in B. annua. Rays pistillate, and apparently always fer-
tile-—This appears to be a true congener of Beilis annua, as Hooker has remarked.
33. APHANOSTEPHUS. DC. prodr. 5. p. 310.
Heads many-flowered; the ray-flowers pistillate; those of the disk tubu-
lar, perfect. Scales of the involucre imbricated in a double series, lanceolate,
acute or acuminate, with scarious margins. Receptacle conical, large, naked.
Rays linear, twice the length of the involucre ; the corolla of the disk tubular,
5-toothed, narrowed at the base. Branches of the style short, flat, terminated
by a very short obtuse flattened cone. Achenia, terete, obscurely
striate, nearly glabrous. Pappus exceedingly minute, coroniform, nearly
entire.—Annual ? or perennial pubescent and branching (Mexican and Texan)
herbs. Leaves alternate, incisely toothed or lobed. Heads solitary, pedunculate,
terminating the branchlets. Rays white.
The genus should perhaps be removed to the Subtribe Anthemidese; as De Candolle
has suggested.
1. A. Riddellii: perennial; stems branched from the base, erect; radical
and lower cauline leaves lanceolate-spatulate or nearly linear, acutely and
incisely toothed towards the apex, tapering below into a long and slender petiole
; those of the branches narrowly linear, entire, crowded.
Texas, Dr. Riddell!—Root ligneous, acrid to the taste. Stems rigid, slender,
6-8 inches high; the flowering branchlets slender, naked towards the
summit. Leaves minutely hirsute-pu bescent and somewhat canescent. Heads
smaller than in Beilis integrifolia, but very similar in appearance. Receptacle
nearly the length of the involucre.—From A. ramosissimus, DC. this
species appears to differ chiefly in its sharply toothed and conspicuously petioled
lower leaves (those of the branches more crowded), and in the rather
larger flowers ; characters which are perhaps inconstant, and not of specific
importance*