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and sometimes a single leaf near the base of the stem), minutely 

 and sparsely pubescent below, the pubescence more conspicuous 

 upward and becoming clammy or (on the pedicels) glandular: 

 radical leaves few, rather large, oblong to elliptic, obtuse to subp 

 acute, entire or coarsely and irregularly deiitate and at base more 

 or less runcinate, 10-18 cm. long, on petioles of about half the 

 length, glabrous except on the petioles and midrib : inflorescence 

 corymbose-paniculate, the few to several heads of the branches of 

 the panicle being crowded at their summits : heads 1 5-20 mm. 

 high, many -flowered : involucre dark, glandular-pubescent : bracts 

 hnear, in two rows ; the outer few and short ; inner more numerous 

 (12-16) ; akenes tapering gradually from base to summit, about 6 

 mm. long, rather uniformly lo-striate, h'ght brown : pappus soft 

 and white, shorter than the akene. 



A few specimens were distributed as no. 1857 (Centennial Val- 

 ley, Aug. 25, 1895) under the name Hicracium Fcndlcri Schultz 

 Bip. From this it is clearly distinct, however.* Tlie only speci- 

 mens duplicating the number cited above that I have seen 



were 



H. 



* Its nearest relative is C. ruucinata T. & G., but is easily distinguished from that 

 species by the larger, more distinctly turbinate head and larger leaves which are much 

 more deeply runcinate at the base.— P. A. R. 



