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small heads glomerate in the axils, the upper internodes very short 

 forming a congested, leafy cluster : heads moderately invoh-ed in 

 wool, about 3 mm. high : involucral bracts lanceolate, acutish the 

 scanoiis tips white, brownish below : pappus bristles barbellulatc 

 under the compound lens, exceeding the flowers ; akcne roun-hened 

 with short, cylindrical papillae. *" 



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spicuous member but is very distinct from that and the related 

 species. Its spreading habit and its slender, merely sofl-pubescent 



a plant of sub-alpine stations. 



leaves are characteristic. It is 



growing in loose, loam soil on the dry sides of recentl}- broken 

 down ravine banks. T)-pe no. 2077, Iiead of Wood's Creek 



Med 



Mountains. Aug. it, 1896. 



Also collected 



m 



Centennial Valley, Aug. 1S95, no. 175 i. 



