This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...rows of imbricated herbaceous phyllaries. Clinanth flat, pitted; pits more or less distinctly surrounded by a denticulated membrane. Elorets of the disk perfect, with a tubular corolla; those of the ray in a single row, female or neuter, ligulate, more rarely absent. Achenes more or less compressed, without ribs. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...rows of imbricated herbaceous phyllaries. Clinanth flat, pitted; pits more or less distinctly surrounded by a denticulated membrane. Elorets of the disk perfect, with a tubular corolla; those of the ray in a single row, female or neuter, ligulate, more rarely absent. Achenes more or less compressed, without ribs. Pappus of several rows of shortlyciliated nearly equal hairs. Perennial (rarely annual) herbs with alternate leaves and corymbose or paniculate or racemose anthodes, with the florets of the disk yellow, sometimes changing to purple; those of the ray white, purple, or blue. The name of this genus of plants comes from aarrip (aster), a star, the flowers assuming the stellate or radiate form. Section I.--AMELLXJS. Adam. Florets of the disk tubular and perfect; those of the ray ligulate and female, more rarely absent. SPECIES I.--ASTER TRIPOLIUM. Linn. Plate DCCLXXVI. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMVIL Tripolium vulgare, Nees. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 253. Stem herbaceous, rather thick, corymbosely or paniculately branched, sparingly leafy. Leaves fleshy, 3-nerved, the radical and lower ones oblanceolate or obovate, attenuated towards the base; those on the upper part of the stem strapshaped, attenuated towards the apex, entire or faintly dentate and smooth at the margins. Peduncles nearly naked, with 1 or 2 bracts below the anthodes. Anthodes usually radiant, in a terminal corymb or corymbose-topped panicle. Pericline oblong-campanulate; phyllaries adpressed, the outer ones elliptical, obtuse, scarious at the summit; inner ones oblong-strapshaped, almost entirely scarious. Achenes pubescent. Pappus about as long as the achene, yellowishwhite. Var. a, genuinus. Plorets of the ray ligulate, spreading, lilac or white. Var. ss, disc..
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