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MISCELLANEOUS SPECIFIC TYPES. — II. 87 



abruptly tapering below to the short petiole, at apex very 

 obtuse, the margins either almost entire or with a few remote 

 but vSalient straight teeth : branches of cymose panicle sparsely 

 and shortly hispid with dark hairs: heads 20 or more, about 

 Vs inch high ; bracts of involucre oblong-linear, obtusish, 

 glandular and pubescent on the back, at summit ending in a 

 simple or else deeply forked (and appearing double) stout 

 bristly hair. 



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Crepis obtusissima. Acaulescent, 1/4 feet high, with 

 thin deep-green foliage very ample, glabrous above, beneath 

 sparsely somewhat pappilose-scabrous ; leaves 4 to 8 inches 

 long, with blades broadly oval to broadly oblanceolate, very 

 obtuse, narrowed abruptly to short broad petioles, the sides 

 conspicuously and coarsely runcinate-toothed : heads smallish, 

 15 to 20 in a strongly corymbose panicle ; involucres nearly 

 cylindric, Vs inch high, their some 20 bracts broadly linear, 

 scarcely acute, sparsely viscid-villous with short appressed 

 white hairs, 



Ellensburg, Washington, 20 June, 1897, Kirk Whited ; his 

 n. 420 as in U. S. Herb. 



LiTHOPHRAGMA ANEMONOiDES. Stems stout for the genus 



and not tall, 5 to 10 inches high arising from a cluster of 



fibrous roots and many granular bulblets or tubers an inch 



below the surface of the ground ; both basal leaves and the 



one or two cauline remarkably ample, quinately divided and 



with broad rounded abruptly acutish segments : pubescence of 



leaves, both superficial and marginal, short, subsetaceous, the 



longer hairs somewhat flattened, the shorter gland-tipped, that 



of the stem minute, spreading, glandular-setulose : raceme 



very short, of few large flowers : calyx densely setose, its tube 



turbinate, cohering with the ovary, segments ovate-trigonous, 



J acute; petals large, flabelliform, deeply trifid, pinkish. 



^ On dry hills under bushes at Klamath Falls, southern 



f Oregon, 28 April, 1907, E. I. Applegate. Allied toZ. parvi- 



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