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RUDBECKIA TRILOBA.
THREE-LOBE-LEAVED RUDBECKIA.
(Generic Character, &c. fcfc. see page 17 o f this work.)
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hispidly-hairy; stem paniculated, branches divaricate, many-flowered, leafy; leaves
lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, serrate, the lower ones three-lobed; cali-
cine leaflets linear, deflexed, as long as the rays. Willd. and Pursh.
P la n t from three to five feet high. Root perennial or biennial?
Stem cylindrical, furrowed, reddish, closely beset with white hairs.
Branches dull-lake-red, hairy. Lower leaves three-lobed, the lobes
lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, obscurely three-nerved, hairy, ciliated,
particularly towards the base; hairs and cilise white. Upper
leaves simple, lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly serrate, indistinct
