Helianthus angustifolius.
long below, and shorter above, varying from seven inches to ten in
length, and about a quarter of an inch to three-eighths wide, without
nerves, the costa only being conspicuous on the under disk. They are
smooth and even glabrous underneath, acute, closely sessile. Top of
the stem usually divided into one or more forks, supporting at a considerable
distance from a leaf or two, occasionally found on the bifurcating
branches, each a single, terminal, pale, straw-yellow flower,
consisting for the most part of eight linear, acute, rarely ovate petals.
Calix leaves very numerous. Disk deep brown purple, rays yellow.
Grows in dry woods from Maryland southward, flowering in September.
The table represents Fig. 1, the upper portion of the plan the size
of nature—Fig. 2, a leaf from the lower part of the stem.
