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Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Brown, Addison, 1830-1913
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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htly tapering, truncate at the summit,about 8-nerved or ribbed, 2¥-3i long;pappus light brown. Plains, Minnesota to Saskatchewan, Mon-tana. Wisconsin. Missouri, Nebraska, Kansasand Arizona. Often infested by a globose gall2-5 in diameter. June-Aug. 2. Lygodesmia rostrata A. Gray. Beaked Lygodesmia. Fig. 4080. L. juncea var. rostrata A. Gray, Proc. Phil.Acad. 1863: 69. 1863. Lygodesmia rostrata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad.9: 217. 1874. Annual, less rigid; stem striate, leafy,paniculately branched, i°-3° high. Leaveselongated-linear, acuminate, entire, 3-nerved,the lower s-j long, i-i* wide, the upper-most very small and subulate; heads numer-ous, 7-io-flowered, about V broad, racemosealong the branches on scaly short erect pe-duncles ; involucre 5-? high; achenes nar-rowly fusiform, narrowed or somewhatbeaked at the summit, 5-8-ribbed or -striate,4-5 long, longer than the whitish pappus. Plains and canyons, South Dakota to Sas-katchewan, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado andWyoming. Aug.-Sept.
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Genus ig. CHICORY FAMILY. 323 19. AGOSERIS Raf.; D. Dietr. Syn. PI. 4: 1332. 1847. (Troximon Nutt. Fras. Cat. 1813. Not Gaertn. iJQi-) Perennial or annual herbs, mostly acaulescent, with tufted usually sessile basal leaves,and solitary heads of yellow or rarely purple flowers at the end of a naked or bracted scape.Involucre campanulate or oblong, its bracts imbricated in several series, appressed, or withspreading tips, mernbranous or herbaceous, not thickened after flowering, the outer onesgradually shorter and broader. Receptacle flat, naked or foveolate. Rays truncate and5-toothed at the apex. Anthers sagittate at the base. Style-branches slender. Achenesoblong, obovate, or linear, lo-ribbed, not flattened, beaked or beakless. Pappus of copiousslender simple white bristles or soft unequal narrow scales. (Greek, head- or chief-succory.J Abovit 30 species, natives of western and southern North America and southern South America.Besides the following, some 20 others occur in the weste

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