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ciliate, otherwise smooth and glabrous, light colored; inflorescence about 20 cm. 
long, rather even in width, after pressing, 5 or 6 cm. wide, loose below, denser 
above, the branches slender, strongly ascending, the racemes with 7 to 12 heads, 
a few of the middie ones very slightly compounded, the peduncles slender, 2 
to 4 mm, long; heads campanulate, 5 mm. long; involucre scarcely at all her- 
baceous, the tegules double-keeled but the lines not obviously looped above, the 
middle tegules oblong, ovately tipped; flowers about 17 to 20, of these 5 to 8 
radiate, the rays oblanceolate-oblong, 2.5 mm. long; achenes glabrous. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 619303, collected on Indian River, 
Cheboygan County, Michigan, August 8, 1890, by C. F. Wheeler. . 
Allied to 8. fisheri, but differing conspicuously in its greatly reduced foliage 
and in its cylindraceous instead of ovoid inflorescence; also substantially in its 
lower stature and relatively stouter habit and in the slightly shorter but fuller 
heads. There is only one specimen, but the essential characters are entirely 
clear. 
